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Tower failures
The Camberwell fire (News July 10) raises two main points: first, the omission of the 900mm-high vertical and 600mm-wide fire breaks outlined in the London Building bylaws seems a major contribution
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Time for a review
The fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell is shocking. As someone involved in work to 1960s housing over 20 years, I would point out that while there have been numerous fires in tower blocks since the 1960s, most have been confined to a single flat, with perhaps minor damage to ...
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Visual impact
RE: Your story “RIBA’s choice of Stirling sponsor ‘undermines UK firms’”, News July 10
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Correction: July 17 2009
Last week’s front page story named Squint Opera among the British visualisation firms that had failed to win Olympic work
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OpinionTime to put an end to all the arguing
Newly redundant lawyers will have more time to contemplate their usefulness
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OpinionIs America leading the way on sustainability?
Yes, thanks to the Leed standard and Obama, says Patrick Bellew, but Gary Lawrence argues that China is making greater strides
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OpinionLook outside: Pearson to landscape RIBA
Interesting to see that the RIBA enlisted the services of TV landscape gardener Dan Pearson — rather than one of its own members — to revamp its two outside terraces, which are to be transformed into “simple, sustainable, architectural garden terraces”, according to a planning application lodged with Westminster Council
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OpinionCrystal clear hypocrisy
While speaking sternly against fee cutting, the RIBA has picked a Stirling Prize sponsor that undercuts its own members
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OpinionNot so thrilled by car park
It is unfortunate that the undoubted aesthetic value of the “Get Carter” car park expounded by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl June 26) is not balanced by the also undoubted irrelevance to modern retail and the community who live and shop beneath its “dismally thrilling” concrete
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OpinionFailing time test
DRMM’s Clapham primary school (Works July 3) “replacing unfortunate 1960s extensions” with an even more unfortunate 2000s extension, demonstrates how many architects have dismally failed to learn the lessons of recent history
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OpinionModernism shouldn’t take rap for fire
It’s not the tower blocks that are to blame but, rather, our dereliction of duty towards their welfare
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OpinionA 4th plinth for architecture?
Could Trafalgar Square inspire us to experience the great buildings that never were?
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It's a frame-up...
Is there really so little going on that you had to resort to a non-story about the LSC framework (News July 3)?
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Recession aid
In response to your story on the RIBA’s services for members (News July 3) James Cooke and I provide the Managing in Recession service for RIBA
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Mersey unbeaten
In his paean of praise for Liverpool (Letters July 3), Robert MacDonald forgot to mention Everton Football Club (1878); and that Liverpool possesses, in St George’s Hall, arguably the finest 19th century building in the world
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Correction
Flacq was accidentally left out of the list of architects involved in the winning bid to regenerate Canning Town (News July 3).
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OpinionDoes the organisation of the Arts Council need a rethink?
No says former board member Elsie Owusus, there is nothing fundamentally wrong, yes says report author Marc Sidwell, a new arts settlement is needed.
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Jan's legacy
To Jan Kaplicky’s retrospective at the Design Museum, where Norman Foster was the first to pay tribute to the Future Systems co-founder.
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OpinionRIBA should look in, not out
The institute must decide whether its priority is empire-building or serving the needs of ordinary architects