All Letters to the editor articles – Page 90
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Pie in the sky
Your photograph of the infamous three 14-storey slab blocks in sixties Everton (“A century of housing” May 18) brought back many memories.
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Poverty track
Your leader correctly points out that the Practice Question (May 20) “offers some sound observations and useful suggestions,” but the poverty of most architects relative to doctors and solicitors is far from new.
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Trend setter
The illustration to your note on Airey houses is actually of a Seco timber-framed temporary bungalow. Although designed for a 15-year life, many examples remain, well-loved by their inhabitants and consistently defended by them against demolition.
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Agora exists
Gareth Gwynne suggests an “agora” to showcase and debate the major architectural/built environment projects proposed for London (Letters April 27). Has he been to New London Architecture in the Building Centre?
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OpinionCoal not doled
The May issue of BD Magazine is packed with interest and really well presented, but Retrospect is wildly adrift concerning the “the health of toiling miners” in 1948.
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OpinionHemp offers even more
The article on hemp insulation by Roderick Bunn (Solutions May 11) quoted a U-value of 0.9W/m2K from Buro Happold for 100mm.
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TechnicalSustainable Games are the new Klondike
The rush for a green Olympics is important, but requires teamwork
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Get a grip, RIBA
You hit the nail fairly and squarely on the head (Leader May 11) in asserting that the RIBA has more pressing matters to beat itself up about than registering the political affiliations of council and board members.
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Hard times
It seems that Dickensian employment practices are alive and well in architects’ offices (Practice May 4).
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It’s a mad world
Your headline (News May 4) regarding housing competitions could equally apply to the whole competition process. This is, generally, fairness gone bonkers.
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Peak practice
How quickly people forget! When I got my first job 35 years ago with Leonard Manasseh, a superb aerial perspective of his proposal for Snowdon’s summit (News May 4) sat in his foyer in Rathbone Street.
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OpinionViews: The Williams Report is only the beginning
Design for Homes chief executive David Birkbeck says that government of whatever hue has no choice but to start a massive housebuilding programme - both at Thames Gateway and across the country. It could even be a vote winner
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FeaturesIn the name of sustainability, can architects learn to love the traditional?
People save and reuse old buildings for a host of reasons — romantic, aesthetic, historical.
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OpinionThoughts are key to contests
It is entirely unnecessary for architects to be asked to produce extensive design as part of a competition process.
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Square despair
I would like to add to the debate on public spaces (Letters May 4). I walk through Gillett Square in Dalston nearly every day.
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Smoke and ire
As our office has long had an absolute no-smoking policy, I had thought that the smoking ban being brought into law in England on July 1 would not affect us.
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Minority vote
If the rewards and working conditions of the architectural profession were to improve, perhaps more women and those from ethnic minorities would join.
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OpinionUse your sense
Having spent 31 years visiting Aalto’s buildings in Finland and the US, I was delighted to attend the Alvar Aalto exhibition and study day last week at the Barbican. Sadly, both were disappointing.
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Misread accolade
No author should complain about a review as generous as Tom Muirhead’s of my book Britain (April 27), and I am grateful for it.