More Comment – Page 150
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Opinion
Surface tensions
Make’s 5 Broadgate scheme for Swiss bank UBS (News March 18) shows how hard it is to achieve Ken Shuttleworth’s insistence on no more than 30-40% glazing, which is what we should all be trying to achieve.
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Under invested?
So, as Sir Fred may have advised, RMJM has packed all its debt (ie current financial situation) into the issue of new shares which it will then sell to its own staff (bdonline March 16).
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Time to mix it up
Converting commercial rights to residential rights will not produce successful regeneration, only another residential district demanding inefficient and duplicated services and where transport and energy mistakes of the past are repeated (“Turn redundant high streets into housing says think-tank” bdonline, March 21).
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Never forget
How pleasing were the days when the AA chairman, like Hannibal, could mount elephants (Archive, March 18). Much of the credit goes to the charismatic and riotously funny Phil Hudson, then of the AA Student Union.
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Rural practices
lan Deacon’s recommendation to students to read The Honeywood File (and follow it up, presumably, with The Honeywood Settlement) (Letters March 18) reminded me of another pair of books I must transfer from bookshelf to travel bag.
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OpinionWho can afford localism?
Neighbourhood plans will only be as local as the people that pay for them
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OpinionWhat is the true value of education?
It’s time we realised that architecture degrees aren’t simply career launch pads
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Waging war on pay complaints
Keir Alexander should stop propagating the myth that architects are poorly paid (Letters March 11).
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Market forces
Peter Stephens’ anguish and Keir Alexander’s depressing conclusion that architecture will be left for those who can afford it if students are lured into the City (Letters March 11) reawaken the age-old problem.
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Unwise words
It was entertaining to find two examples of unconscious irony on one page (Opinion March 11).
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School of thought
Taking account of all the current problems in practice and education, is there a practical alternative to educating in universities?
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Golden oldie
In response to “Are Schools of Architecture letting Students down?” (Debate March 11), I regularly recommend HB Creswell’s novel The Honeywood File to students.
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The art of design
It is interesting in the week that you revisit Koolhaas’s “inside out” Kunsthal (Inspiration March 4) that you also present the proposals for the V&A’s underground gallery extension.
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OpinionShould the government scrap the PPS7 rural building policy?
Yes says Ian Anderson, the process must be simplified; while Keith Williams fears the loss of PPS7’s fine distinctions could harm architectural invention
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OpinionImprobable princely union
Norman Foster and Prince Andrew, Quinlan Terry and Prince Charles – every successful architect surely needs a prince by their side.
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OpinionLocal identity is the least of it
Grant Shapps’ Legoland comments are to be applauded, but we’ve got bigger problems than contextual sensitivity
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OpinionDesign is key to our future
Change or die is essential to the longevity of architects but the reported findings of the RIBA think tank Building Futures (News February 25) should be challenged.
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OpinionFree for all
I was disappointed to see that the RIBA president elect Angela Brady has taken a swipe at “star architects and larger firms” for exploiting staff, (News March 4).
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OpinionRemember the past, but don’t repeat it
The government threat to stop funding Unesco shows a tortured relationship with conservation