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RIBA: get real
I have followed your raging debate about Arb and the RIBA. I even wrote to the minister two years ago, imploring her to resist the RIBA’s efforts to take over Arb’s functions, and I made sure that I didn’t vote for a Reform Group candidate
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Suburb hubbub
I am an architect, and a resident of Hampstead Garden Suburb. Boots (March 27) might like to know that there was a presentation by Hopkins on March 24, some nine months too late, without a single three-dimensional drawing to show the new blocks from Central Square or the flanking roads ...
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Fount of wisdom
Last Sunday, I cycled past Centre Point and was saddened to see the pool and fountains dry and hoarded-off, ready for demolition
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Ode to joy
Thank you, Jonathan Glancey, for bringing up a worthwhile but neglected issue (Whatever happened to craft? March 27)
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Computer craft
Like it or not, computers are here to stay (Whatever happened to craft? March 27), so the issue is how computing-based design can achieve a more sensual quality rather than a default abandonment of how architecture has been practiced for the past two decades or so.
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OpinionWren's template for austerity
Tough times don’t necessarily mean inferior architecture. Just look at what Wren produced for the City of London on a shoestring
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Correction
In last week’s front page story (“Lifeline for arts projects”) Haworth Tompkins and director Steve Tompkins were incorrectly spelt as Tomkins
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OpinionThe shining: a modern horror story
The new wave of energy-efficient lightbulbs is enough to bring out the axeman in anyone
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OpinionShould the RIBA introduce a register for conservation architects?
Yes, says Purcell Miller Tritton’s Jeremy Blake, because architects need professional benchmarks as much as any other group; no, says Stirling Prize winner Stephen Hodder, we need communities of knowledge, not individual registrations
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OpinionSeventies wallpaper makes a comeback in Birmingham
Why bother hiring a world-class architect to design your new library when you can simply cover a few very large boxes with a classic wallpaper design from the seventies?
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OpinionArts face recession’s wrath
A funding crisis should not be allowed to derail projects from which we all have much to gain
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OpinionHeterodox on Hereford House
In its de-listing of Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford House (News February 20), the DCMS has gravely misjudged the building’s significance — it is important as his first work in the private sphere, following his noteworthy contributions at London County Council
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Survey the scene
The recent healthy debate about the regulation of the profession (Letters passim) poses difficulties in moving forward where none need exist
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OpinionDon’t just wait for good times to return
It will be the final misery of these times if all we emerge with is downsized businesses and nastier buildings
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Drain the swamp
I agree with Susan Ballinger (Letters March 20). All planning and building regulations applications should be made by an architect as this would solve a lot of the problems — RIBA and Arb, take note!
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Content majority
I am bemused by Gordon Kidd (Letters March 20) suggesting the answer to the poor turnout in the Arb elections is to “return Arb to its registration-only function”
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OpinionThe third way
It has occurred to me that architects visiting London might be mildly surprised to see Palladio and Le Corbusier’s names writ large on the side of buses and in the passages of the Underground
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It’s not unusual
Regarding your article on job opportunities in Kazakhstan and elsewhere (News March 20), it would appear that the writer has never been outside the western hemisphere