More Comment – Page 178
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Marriage value
Katie Wilmot (Letters March 12) should relax. Architecture is being served by the use of 66 Portland Place for weddings and other non-RIBA functions
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Living proof
What a shame that Austin Williams (Debate March 5) uses environmental awareness as a negative point in the future of the architectural profession
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Men of vision
It is with great sadness that I read last week about the deaths of two of architecture’s greatest minds: Bruce Graham and Raimund Abraham (News March 12)
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Getting the hump
Last week’s BD featured a large photograph of a Children’s Centre in Barnes (Works March 12)
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Correction
A review of Farshid Moussavi’s book The Function of Form (Culture March 5) incorrectly described Moussavi as a former partner in Foreign Office Architects
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Cushion-plumpers will inherit the earth
Those flexible, responsive designers of the future? They’re already here
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Would you work for less than the minimum wage?
No, architects must take a united stand, says Alison Coutinho; while Emma Perry thinks sometimes it’s necessary to get a foot in the door
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Up in the air over Alsop
Momentary panic at the RIBA Awards office when it received two entries for Chips, the Manchester apartments designed by Will Alsop
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Filling the gaps in our cities
All around the country sites are standing empty. Now it’s time for developers to step up and find alternative uses for their land
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Let’s draw a veil over this idea
Much like Jonathan Glancey (March 5) I was shocked when made aware of the proposals to partly transform the RIBA into a “wedding venue” (News February 26)
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Shoal patch
I would like to clarify that the Shoal at Stratford (News February 19) is not intended to hide the Stratford Centre but — together with the less talked about public realm improvements across the wider town centre — to set a confident tone for the current and dynamic regeneration of ...
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The profession has divided us
There are still places where architecture is a communal experience
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Object lessons
Re “Cabe told assessors to destroy scores” (News February 26), I have experienced a similar practice of being required to return sheets with scores and notes at meetings called to consider submissions for public art projects
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Classic error
In case BD readers think I have gone mad, I most certainly did not write “Paternoster Square never goes away, it has the longest pedigree of all the styles” in your 40th anniversary celebration
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No to Battersea
Your story “Cabe backing fuels Viñoly Battersea application” (News March 26) quotes Cabe director of design Diane Haigh saying: “we have reviewed [the proposals] six times… this has resulted in a strong scheme which Cabe is confident will be a success”!
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No entrance?
With reference to your article on Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne (Works March 5), the bottom left photograph on page 28 is subtitled “A freestanding canopy marks the entrance at the centre of the plan”
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Out of the picture
As an archivist I find you bring a very salutary element of architectural reality into a very large architectural archive where “modern” mainly refers to the 1930s-1960s
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Correction
Alan Short (“Glass buildings are set to become pariahs” News March 5) is professor of architecture at Cambridge University, not head of architecture as stated.
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We can cut emissions by 60% by 2030
Architects and builders can help bring about major change in London’s energy use
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Just can’t stop — Pringles and the aquatics centre
Word reaches Boots that people living near the Olympic Park are divided over the nickname for Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre