All Letters to the editor articles – Page 94
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Opinion
Energetic riposte
A different slant on energy use. I have received a copy of a trade magazine printed in Singapore and AIRMAILED to the UK.
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OpinionViñoly tower is in fine tradition
On March 6, Cabe and English Heritage will appear on opposite sides at the public inquiry into Rafael Viñoly’s tower at 20 Fenchurch Street. The issue here is about how great cities change to meet new challenges. It is about the extent to which they can break with tradition when ...
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Horror of towers
You devoted much of your leader last week to support the proposed tower for 20 Fenchurch Street.
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Star struck
I read with dismay that the local development authority’s otherwise commendable plans to revitalise Blackpool’s seafront include yet another scheme to needlessly light up our already light polluted skyline and waste yet more energy.
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Wrath of a two-headed beast
How odd to be admonished in BD for resigning from Architecture & Design Scotland by the Murray part of Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects (Letters February 16), while in your rival the Dunlop bit admonishes me for not having left sooner.
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No pay, no cover
Cabe’s recent notice advertising that it is looking for architects to join its design panel but expecting them to work for free has attracted much criticism.
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Fraser is right
Malcolm Fraser is absolutely right (News February 9). PFI is producing poor buildings for Scotland, and Architecture & Design Scotland is failing to do its job if it will not point this out and why it is happening. Good architecture cannot result when architects are cut off from the user ...
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It’s a gamble
How dare the Department of Culture Media & Sport claim it is capable of writing the rules for the Supercasino competition (News February 9) when it failed to abide by its own rules over the small but high-profile Diana Fountain Memorial competition.
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Opinion
A snapshot
I am of the few survivors of your photograph (Practice February 16) although just off frame — it must be at least 50 years old.
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Design and build
Richard Simmons’ suggestion that the link between design and housing needs to be prioritised in the profession’s affairs is right.
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Competitions raise standards
From Berlin, I have followed the debate on competitions in BD with interest. Having established our office on the success of a single competition win in Germany in 1991, and with 90% of our subsequent commissions coming from competitions, I am mystified why they are treated with such suspicion in ...
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TechnicalAn ecological footprint to fit our planet
Real ‘sustainability’ goes far beyond where we source our energy
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Good practice
Archaos would like to thank the 450 practices and architects who have joined our Good Practice Campaign.
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OpinionSave our greens
Landscape Architecture South East (LASE) welcomes the Greater London Authority inquiry into the loss of street trees in London (News February 2) and anticipates real outcomes from it.
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Lost opportunity
I am bemused that a deputy-chairman of any nascent NGO should resign because he doesn’t like the shape of his own organisation.
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Pick up the baton
Following the fiasco of the Wembley Stadium redevelopment, fears have been raised that the ambitious 2012 Olympics project, which will result in a significant regeneration of parts of London’s East End, may run over time and budget.
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OpinionChance to regain the housing initiative
On a visit to Newcastle last year I was told that many people in the region aspire to buy a standard housebuilder’s box. The blander, the better. Why?
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FeaturesAre schools for the future just monuments to egotism?
A few years ago I went back to my south London grammar school to speak at the annual prize giving. Before the actual event I pottered round classrooms and corridors in a haze of nostalgia. Everything seemed pretty much the same. The mould I remembered on the shower room walls ...
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Fashion victims
OK, I’ve had enough! So most 1960s and 1970s public housing was a disaster, architects are largely to blame, and we must beat our breasts and plead guilty to the destruction of the city. Let us look at the facts.