All Letters to the editor articles – Page 88
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OpinionOut of the frame
Further to your debate on the use of partnering agreements by housing associations (June 8), readers may be interested in our experience as a small practice in this field.
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Up the wrong tree
I strongly disagree with Greg Penoyre’s view of the Singing Ringing Tree. It is not a bad sculpture and it might win the sculpture award, art award or whatever, but not any architectural ones!
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OpinionCrack down hard on graft
Paul Morrell has rightly raised the question of whether the construction industry can “sleep with a clear conscience” regarding corruption (Opinion June 15).
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Rotten egg
Like Bill Mitchell (Opinion June 22), I and millions of others grew up with rows of local specialist shops selling fresh local seasonal produce.
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Gloomy outlook
As a grumpy old architect spurred on by the avalanche of largely politically motivated paperwork that is now deemed necessary to create a building, I enjoyed June’s BD Magazine on housing.
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OpinionNeedled by Greer
I could not help laughing at Germaine Greer’s idea about building 75-storey “transparent needles surrounded by a wild habitat”.
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Opinion
It’s grim up north
On the same day that I read Paul Gregory’s letter querying the fact that 28 of the 31 positions on Cabe’s schools panel are from the South-east (June 15), voting papers for the RIBA council election arrived. Of nine names, six of the candidates’ practice addresses are in London, with ...
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The wrong hat
From Ken Powell’s many achievements it was misleading to select his former directorship of the Twentieth Century Society by quoting his support for Foster’s scheme in your report on the public inquiry over the School and Inner Court in Chelsea (News June 15).
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In for a pound
I have a copy of Architectural Design dated June 1951 which reviewed the Royal Festival Hall (Letters June 15 and 22).
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Tall storeys
It is ironic that Germaine Greer (Debate June 22) should have proposed tower blocks in Cambridge.
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Misleading data
In his defence of PFI Jim Knight comes on strong on accountancy and time arguments. These have been shown to be false in research by the University of Edinburgh into Treasury claims for the “advantages” of PFI, published in April.
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OpinionSeven-year glitch
After last Wednesday’s episode of The Apprentice, can somebody please, please, ask Ken Shuttleworth why on national TV he felt the need to compare architects’ seven gruelling years of training with the apprentices’ three-day “architectural” efforts as equally meretricious?
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OpinionJerusalem: help us grasp issues
I read Moshe Safdie’s comments (News June 8) with great interest. In recent weeks I have come to sympathise with, as he puts it, “the complexity of the issues” in the Middle East, and so with the help of Simon Kaufman from our office I decided to inform myself better ...
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OpinionSimple stand
Paul Stein (Letters June 8) perfectly illustrates why the petition against Israel’s architectural and planning practice is to be strongly welcomed.
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Homes alone
I refer to your excellent report on the Thames Gateway (May 18). I was a social housing architect for 18 years with the Peabody Trust, and in my experience quality comes at a price — finances, time, inclusiveness and ownership.
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OpinionEverything has political aspect
In his debate on architecture and politics (BD June 1) Robert Adam writes that “to promote architecture as a primary political activity is a naive and arrogant.”
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Standards bearer
Charles Jencks (Letters June 1) informs us that ownership of Palestinian land has declined by a massive 84% since 1907.
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OpinionIn the dark
It was illuminating to read the piece about “green lighting” (Solutions May 25), especially the 998 LEDs on the Sackler Crossing in Kew Gardens.
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London luvvies
Despite my suspicions that Cabe was a quango for London luvvies, I naively applied recently for one of 31 positions on its newly formed school panel. This reviews educational schemes and attempts to raise architectural standards.