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Please leave now
Architects spend their lives whining, blaming Conservative governments and playing the martyr, almost revelling in their tough education and massive redundancies in the bad times
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One step beyond
Your correspondents (Letters May 14) showed proper concern for child safety in the precise spacing of balusters
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Legislate now
As a long-in-the-tooth chartered architectural technologist, well versed in building regulations and providing clients with a good service I am bound by a code of conduct that states quite clearly that full members of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologist offering architectural services are required to carry professional indemnity insurance.If ...
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OpinionA home under St Paul’s dome?
The most unlikely conversions could make magnificent places to live.
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OpinionDeath row and data protection
Boots was concerned to read about the plight of AA graduate-turned property developer Aziz Qayoumi (pictured) who is currently on death row in Kabul
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OpinionIs the sketch superior to the computer-generated image?
Yes, says Alan Dunlop, a line drawing lasts the test of time; while Alice Scott thinks computer rendering is a more powerful tool
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Building on the bureaucratic rubble
Coalition government could be the best news the construction industry’s had in years
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OpinionOur heritage is in your hands
The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail needs your help to survive
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OpinionGove gets off to a bad start
The new education secretary’s ill-informed remarks suggests he has little understanding of architecture
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OpinionGove must try harder, not us
As an architect who has been working on school projects, including BSF schemes for the last 15 years, I feel I have to respond to Michael Gove’s statement that architectural practices “have done so well out of the Building Schools for the Future programme by creaming off cash which should ...
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Going it alone
I much enjoyed the article “Orange is the only Fruit” on the Lakerlopen Housing Project by Biq (Works April 30).
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Time for change
In common with many others, I am beginning to despair of the RIBA. Its timid approach on the low pay issue, the disarray of RIBA London, and the council members who have not signed the declaration of interests form, thereby potentially making council decisions open to challenge, are all signs ...
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Shoddy masonry
We need an RIBA with a spine that stands up for the profession rather than a “yes body”. We also need an institute that has a council with no conflicts of interest whatsoever, as the “fingers in pies” scenario on any panel is highly detrimental to it functioning properly
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Use your head
Charles Bain Smith (Letters May 7) seems to have a smattering of gynaecological knowledge which doesn’t seem all that applicable to staircases.
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The grisly truth
The question last week about the 100mm rule on staircases has a slightly grisly answer I think.
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Correction
Contrary to our report last week, the Olympic Park wind turbines are not being developed by Atkins but by the firm Quiet Revolutions
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OpinionIs a hung parliament good news for architects?
PRP’s Andy von Bradsky says it’s time for consensus politics, but Clifford Martin of Capita argues investment in architecture will not be a priority for the coalition government
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OpinionCreating affordability at Chelsea Barracks
The Qataris seem to have found a cunning solution to the affordable housing “problem” at Chelsea Barracks: bung all the plebs over the road at Grosvenor Waterside.
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In need of new leadership
The next RIBA president must be someone willing to fight architects’ corner