More Comment – Page 304
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Correction
The client of St George’s Bloomsbury (Works September 1) should have been the Parochial Church Council of St George’s Church, Bloomsbury.
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Forget your peers, give us practicality
Architects hate Building Regulations because they represent, however crudely or simplistically, a kind of feedback from society.
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Watch your figure
As chief executive of Local Authority Building Control, I was very concerned to read your front page story headlined: “Two in three architects believe building control damages design quality” (News, September 1).
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OpinionGorilla warfare
There was I thinking that award-winning penguin pools and elephant houses were regarded as inappropriate in the 21st century, when BD devoted a whole page to the “ingeniously constructed” new gorilla enclosure at London Zoo (Solutions, August 25).
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Marina madness
I thought last week’s letter from Chris Teague of Cardiff was incredibly rude: tragically, Wales is the home of the plastic window and what good vernacular architecture they had has mostly been trashed.
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Assembly anger
Ellis Woodman describes Rich-ard Rogers’ Welsh Assembly as “dogmatically observing disabled access” (News August 25).
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Frosty reception
I was a bit surprised at Amanda Birch’s slighting references to the BBC2 Blizzard programme in her article on Scott’s hut (Solutions, September 1).
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Lost in exhibition
In 1967 at the Regent Street Polytechnic evening school of architecture I was awarded the Sir Bannister Fletcher prize for thesis design by Jim Stirling (with others).
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Unfeasibility study
The house plans in the “Sustainability report” (Concrete Quarterly, September 1) will create more heat from users than the building conserves due to its mean layout.
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Sifting through the embers for reason
The timber industry is on a roll, thanks to the government.
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The country house has left the country
One of the great glories of country houses is their fundamental irrationality.
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OpinionThis year’s Venice blobfest promises to be the most mischievous yet...
...as it’s going all political
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Stop whingeing at assembly building
You are at it again, in your front page on the Stirling shortlist, whingeing that the National Assembly for Wales building “cost three times its original budget” and was late in completion.
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OpinionStirling retort
I see you have used the nomination of the Welsh Assembly Building as yet another opportunity to take a swipe at Wales.
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Silver service
I was amazed by last week’s front page article “Prescott’s £60k house fades to grey”, which shows both bias and a tendency to score cheap points.
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Weather the storm
So, Prescott should be embarrassed because the £60,000 cedar-clad house suffered “damage” by fading to grey?
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Political vacuum
Having returned from holiday, I have just read reports on the number of votes Peter Phillips received in the RIBA presidential election.