More Comment – Page 175
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OpinionWe must heed volcanic wake-up call
The importance of resilient, sustainable design has been brought home by the eruption in Iceland
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OpinionShould design be blamed for ‘Broken Britain’?
No, says Stephen Hill, politicians are responsible; while George Ferguson argues that bad design has led to the loss of social space
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OpinionWannabe MPs should stick to their day jobs
The bookies don’t much fancy the chances of any of the six architects standing in the election making it as an MP
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OpinionYou get what you pay for
If the RIBA really wants to engage with members, it should make the presidency a paid position
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OpinionVisa rules are highly unfair
To those rushing to support the Home Office’s new visa rules (News April 16) because you think it will help the job market and the profession, it won't
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Opinion‘World class’ just means banal
An invitation arrives from the Swedish Association of Architects to speak to Stockholm politicians and planners. Icelandic volcanoes willing, I’ll go because the theme is urgent: the “world class city”
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Status update
I do not think the Social Mobility Foundation should be encouraging youngsters from deprived backgrounds into architecture (News April 9)
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Paying the price
The recent story of architectural students being offered work at a rate of pay close to or below the minimum wage was deeply depressing but perhaps not entirely surprising given the current economic situation
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OpinionGet the picture
A few questions to Tate director Nicholas Serota about the extension to Tate Modern (News April 9)
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Listen again
In reading Anna Winston’s article (“Sound decisions” IT April 16), I was very much reminded of the title of a text on acoustics for architecture students entitled “Deaf architects and blind acousticians”
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Correction
Contrary to information given to BD last week (News April 16), the figure most non-EU architects now need to earn to get a UK work visa is not £75,000 but £65,000, with extra points available for architects aged under 40.
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OpinionWhose modernist icon is it anyway?
The Azerbaijani restaurant in Melnikov’s Rusakov club strikes an incongruous note
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OpinionDoes the RIBA need to start paying its presidents?
Yes, says Andrew Hanson, an honorarium would be helpful, while Owen Luder says it might attract candidates drawn by the money
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OpinionStill standing
Will there be no end to the line of architects coming forward to stand as MPs? Iain Meek has now put himself forward as an independent candidate for Holborn St Pancras, where as a previous Labour activist he helped get Frank Dobson elected in 1979.
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OpinionPoor thinking on low pay
The issue of low or no pay for students and newly qualified architect members is clearly a matter of importance to a profession that too often gives away cheaply its unique skills
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Invest in future
I must take issue with your slightly dimmed memory about design standards (“New Labour’s sorry legacy”, Leader April 1). If the quality of design and construction undertaken between 1979 and 1997 the laissez faire design-and-build era is anything to go by, heaven help the built environment if the Tories return
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OpinionCabe gives me engage rage
Le Corbusier must be turning in his grave at the modern obsession with ‘engaging the public’
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Market mints it
Stewart Baseley from the Home Builders Federation writing about the Homes & Communities Agency’s proposed design standards (Debate April 1) is right that “it is about affordability”, but finding room for snooker tables is not the problem