All Letters to the editor articles – Page 82
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Opinion
Waste of energy
The promotion of energy assessment as a quasi-profession rather than as a function of a proper profession is both a government-sponsored job creation scheme and a logistical failure.
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Eyes on the prize
By focusing on the spat between EH and Piers Gough, we are in danger of overlooking the real issue in the debate over the redevelopment at Smithfield.
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It's a gas
I am delighted that the work of my former tutors, Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan, is being celebrated at Glasgow’s Lighthouse (Culture November 9).
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Past imperfect
In some ways, I agree with Piers Gough. EH is certainly not perfect but love it or loathe it, we need such an institution.
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Fat's chance
Your front page story (News November 2) suggests that a number of practices, including Fat, may be being deliberately excluded from appointments involving Design for London.
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Supply claim
Peter Phillips (Letters November 9) makes a reasonable suggestion when he commends the urgent introduction of more sensible housing space standards for the open market.
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OpinionFirm plans
Paul Morrell (Opinion November 2) implies that business restructuring in the professions is a source of embarrassment for those who do it. I disagree.
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Homes on target
It is wrong to suggest the BRE eco-homes have failed their final build test (News November 9).
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Less is more
The Olympic stadium design does not deserve the brickbats; it is an elegantly economical solution to a very tricky brief.
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OpinionMadin’s library is world-class
Clive Dutton, Birmingham’s director of planning and regeneration, described John Madin’s existing prize-winning 1972 Central Library (News October 19) as “a concrete monstrosity” and then, equally misinformed, rules out a competition for the design of a replacement on grounds of cost and time, giving figures of cost 10 times, and ...
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Olympic winner
Sorry, BD, but does not the new Olympic stadium (News November 9) represent something of a coup?
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OpinionDfL says: ‘Come in and see us’
Let me set the record straight about Design for London’s approach to procuring architects (News November 2).
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Corrections
Last week BD inadvertently omitted Burd Haward Architects from the shortlist for the first phase of Rochester Riverside.
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OpinionFull exposure
The image Riverbank revelation (News November 2) shows a wonderfully seductive rendering of glass building.
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The long view
Oh dear! So Yvette Cooper has pledged a range of styles for eco-towns (News November 1).
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Oscar's podcast
Although I am unconnected with the architectural profession, I look regularly at the podcast page on your website.
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Space realities
News that English Partnerships is to introduce minimum space standards for its housing (News November 2) is welcome; all the more so if they are also adopted by the mega-quango that will result from its expected merger with the Housing Corporation.
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Wood and trees
It would be a mistake by Justin Bere to write off the UK timber window manufacturing industry solely on the strength of an experience related to one highly specialised project (Solutions October 12).
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Culture club
Femi Adebutu (Letters October 19) hits the spot when she says if the City of Culture 2008 is to mean something in Liverpool, key decisionmakers need to turn their eyes away from the city centre and focus on the inner city.
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OpinionOverrruns that harm credibility
As long ago as January 2005, I was wondering whether the winning design for the Architecture Foundation headquarters would be built to time and budget, and how much of the enclosed space, made up of angled walls running in all directions, would be useable.