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Threat to Ealing
The criticisms made by Simon Jenkins last week at the RTPI (News February 22) are illustrated perfectly by the proposals to redevelop a major part of Ealing’s town centre.
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My kind of town
I would be interested to know, according to Simon Jenkins, where in the UK the planning system is run by architects and the construction industry as I would consider relocating to this area.
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Dot to Dot answer: February 22
The winner of last week’s competition was James Rae of BBM Architects in East Sussex, who identified the Snowdon Aviary.
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Battery housing
Can you have housing schemes with high densities which improve the viability of public transport?
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Voice of Doon
Your story suggesting we would redesign our scheme at Doon Street to get planning consent (News February 15) is somewhat misleading.
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Dropped on us
I hope Jonathan Glancey (February 22) does make the trip out to darkest Colchester to enable him to form his opinions in situ on the Lecture Theatre dustbin and Visual Arts Facility golden banana.
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OpinionModern buildings must prove their worth, says Hodge
Writing in the March issue of Grand Designs Magazine, culture minister Margaret Holdge expressed her opinion that modern buildings shouldn't be judged by the same criteria as historical structures when awarding listed status
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OpinionTo the rescue of Robin Hood
Demolishing unpopular housing estates is simply a way of trying to obliterate the past rather than deal with it
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OpinionYou can’t simply wave a wand
It is clear Network Rail bosses know nothing about the procurement of architecture (Stars compete to bring ‘magic’ to New Street station, News February 15), while the RIBA should be ashamed of itself for supporting this competition.
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OpinionBird brained
Boots was delighted to hear Sunand Prasad live on Radio 4’s Today programme alongside Will Alsop, discussing their designs for bird boxes, and we naturally turned straight to the BBC website to inspect the images.
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OpinionFit only for malls
Jonathan Glancey’s comments on the glut of recent figurative monuments (February 15) are timely. London, in particular, is being littered with third-rate “public art”.
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OpinionA bit more money can give real value
Splashing the cash doesn’t guarantee a good design, but wisely spent, it can really pay off
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Scrub up nicely
Dobson’s Newcastle Central, Brunel’s Paddington, not to mention York, Darlington, Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street, London’s Waterloo, Liverpool Street & Victoria, Brighton, Bristol Temple Meads, Glasgow Queen Street, the threatened shed at London Bridge — I could go on — all capture the drama of arrival and power of the ...
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Flaws in strategy
The whole New Street project is fundamentally flawed because it only addresses passenger congestion at the station.
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Universal ethics
Now that the debate on ethics has opened up (News February 15), we wish to commend those architects whose courageous stand on such an issue has been expressed in your paper.
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Pops at China
Daniel Libeskind’s call for architects to take an “ethical stance” places him firmly with the oh-so-ethical Hollywood set, where having a pop at China seems to have become highly fashionable.
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Meet the Fokkers
Like Terry Farrell, I too have a Fokker DR1 model hanging over my desk in the office (Culture February 15).
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Dot to Dot: Answer 15 February
The winner of last week’s competition was Louis Hellman, who identified the Bauhaus building in Dessau by Walter Gropius.
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Escape pan
Fresh news has surfaced about Sandy Wilson’s masterplan for the Royal Academy, on which he was working before he died, and which has never seen the light of day.