All Letters to the editor articles – Page 81
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Opinion
Wilkinson’s word
I am surprised that Adam Wilkinson (Letters December 7) cannot understand why I feel that the existing buildings at Smithfield Market are “deeply undistinguished”.
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OpinionCabe reviews can mislead
We welcome Cabe's structured involvement in the schools sector (November 30)
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City limits
With great respect for both author Gavin Stamp and his reviewer Kenneth Powell, and admitting personal involvement, may I claim Coventry as an exception to that angry tale of post-1945 disasters and disgrace in Britain’s Lost Cities (Culture November 23).
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OpinionSomething fishy
Would Karl Renner (Letters November 23) like to explain how the General Market buildings at Smithfield are “deeply undistinguished”?
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Opinion
Going for Gold
Comments from bdonline on the court order that a developer must rebuild an illegally demolished Erno Goldfinger house (News November 30)
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Just a minute
Is “just 113 design reviews” (News November 30) enough for A&DS to “alter the status quo” in Scotland?
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Opinion
Piers pressure
As a retired conservation officer and history teacher, I disagree strongly with Piers Gough’s arrogant assertion that English Heritage should only deal with the past.
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Opinion
Battle goes on
The Pimlico battle continues, especially as demolition and the production of materials for newbuild both add to global warming.
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OpinionStreet cred
I am pleased I am not the only person in Hackney who objects to the seriously misnamed Streetscene Improvements being spread like a layer of hazardous waste all over the borough.
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OpinionIconic Pimlico must be saved
As a former governor of Pimlico School, I was interested to read about its impending demolition (News November 23).
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Opinion
Poor illumination
Bill Mitchell quotes Leon Botstein on leaks at MIT’s Stata Center (Opinion November 16) as saying: “hiring Gehry to design a building was no more risky than hiring Albert Einstein to teach physics”.
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OpinionScots missed
Just to put the record right, Deyan Sudjic, Ricky Burdett and myself, the only architects on the jury for the BBC Scotland HQ (BD Magazine, Offices, November), soon came to the conclusion that the proposal by David Chipperfield was the best.
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Opinion
Number puzzle
When I resigned in May 2007 as English Heritage’s chief conseration architect and head of profession, I was able to identify 28 architects working for EH in various capacities of a total of 1,937 full-time equivalent employees (EH annual report 2006/07).
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Still on track
Piers Gough has raised a long-standing question about the roles of English Heritage and Cabe (News November 16).
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More is more
I am pleased you consider Piers Gough’s comments about English Heritage to be ill timed.
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OpinionPower is a balancing act
Now that Piers Gough has changed horses from English Heritage to Cabe, he clearly wants the power to travel with him (News November 16).
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OpinionAngel of the north
It’s true that having never undergone the Mackintosh School of Architecture’s indoctrination programme, I have never needed to subscribe to the orthodox view of St Peter’s Cardross as a world-class edifice (News November 16) .
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Divide and rule
I’m not sure how Piers Gough has come to the conclusion that Cabe should deal with what is new, while English Heritage should only deal with what is old.