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OpinionPhotograph fears
I am a British Muslim architect who, like most architects, is keen on taking pictures of buildings. Although I am clean shaven and quite a regular guy, I am obviously not of Anglo-Saxon appearance.
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Remaining green
Your article entitled "Cutting the Greenwash" (Solutions March 24) underlined the importance of post-occupancy monitoring in buildings designed to be energy-efficient which are failing to achieve their design targets.
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Stop the infighting
I wholeheartedly share Owen Luder and Frank Duffy's regret (Letters April 7) that in-fighting has been a feature of the RIBA/ Arb relationship, due, as I see it, to the board's determination to extend its responsibility for registration to include regulation - a comprehensive role which arguably stretches its powers ...
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Corrections
We reported last week (Power play April 13) that the London Borough of Brent was allowing the demolition of the Firestone building. The building being demolished is in fact Giles Gilbert Scott's Guinness building at Park Royal. The Firestone building on the Great West Road was demolished in 1979. Apologies ...
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OpinionSuzi Towel
We've put Big Ben and Beatrix Potter's bungalow in breadcrumbs and you have to guess which is which
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If I were London's design director ...
Does London need a design director to bang the table for better architecture in the capital? If such a post is to be created it is because there is a certain desperation by London's civic leaders to see some action.
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Uniting old and new to create rich legacy
Last week Peter Rees said he could not understand why English Heritage has commissioned a study of the whole Smithfield/ Farringdon area (News April 7).
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Hemingway finds gap in the market
What Andrew Clark (Letters April 7) fails to understand in his attack on Wayne Hemingway lies at the very heart of the problem for architects today.
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Alsop in safe hands
It was refreshing to read Paul Hyett's observation (Letters April 7) on the recent acquisition of Will Alsop's practice by McColl.
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Leeds modesty
It is stretching a point to argue that our building for Isis Waterside Regeneration in Leeds, at a maximum of 14 storeys, is comparable to super-towers by Simpson, Farrell's or Wilkinson Eyre proposed elsewhere in Britain (News analysis April 7). It is in fact modest even by Leeds standards.
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Beware of novelty
Despite the temptation for a snigger from some quarters, your article "Academies could do better" (News March 31) may give the DfES pause for thought in the selection of signature architects and the Building Schools for the Future programme.
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Grid distortion
Extraordinary to hear that Isobel McCall, leader of Milton Keynes Council, thinks "people absolutely love the grid roads" and that they must be protected in their present form against activities developing along them.
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Fountain blame
There were some errors in your article about the Diana Memorial Fountain (News March 24).
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Part 1 graduates have little to offer
Foreign Office Architects denial of claims that they are exploiting students has raised questions about the conditions students experience when entering practice.
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RIBA stifles talent
The RIBA competitions system is not serving the majority of its members and by default, it is not serving the wider public.
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OpinionAn unqualified hit
I was dismayed to see an image of a major scheme entitled "Hemingway Houses" "designed by Broadway Malyan with Hemingway Design". It appears Wayne Hemingway has designed the scheme supported by that well-known firm of technicians Broadway Malyan.
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Never say never
I would like to make it clear that I am not currently working on Phase 2 of Broadcasting House, but in my telephone conversation with BD I in no way ruled it out for the future.
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Alsop opportunity
Cecil Balmond, the late Tony Fitzpatrick, and Peter Rice are three among numerous outstanding design engineers who have developed their careers within an established large practice - in their case Ove Arup. And such is the norm in most other construction disciplines, but not so architecture.
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Is petulance a requirement of Virgin's middle management? Has mixing with flight attendants gone to Joe Ferry's head?