More Comment – Page 293
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Wasted efforts
There was far more commitment to and research into social housing design in the sixties and seventies than there has been since.
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Home from home
Jack Pringle (Soapbox January 19) says he “re-established the RIBA’s housing group last year” as part of his agenda to tackle climate change.
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Schools lesson
I was saddened to read (News January 19) that the quality of school design has been brought down by its procurement process. I doubt that parachuting Cabe into the arena can achieve much.
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Lean or mean?
The Bethnal Green housing (Works January 19) ingeniously couples tight space with green thinking.
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Zero tolerance
Trevor Butler is right to say that zero carbon should mean zero carbon (Solutions January 19) and he even mentions “materials used in construction” but then falls into the trap of concentrating on the issue of generating energy.
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Fees feedback
Your story “AUU payments revealed” (News January 19) is misleading and seems more intent on delivering a dramatic headline than reporting reality.
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How to sell carbon awareness to Dubai
Imagine the following two events happening in the same week: a structure destined to become the world’s tallest building reaches 100 storeys, and a nearly complete 34-storey tower catches fire leading to rooftop rescues by helicopter and the deaths of four workers. If this was the UK, there would be ...
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Schools project needs total shake-up
It was only a question of time before the government twigged that its school building programme was in deep trouble. But for anyone involved in Gordon Brown’s flagship project, news that the first targets had been missed came as no surprise.
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How to get invited back to the top table
Last year I re-established the RIBA Housing Group and my prediction for 2007 was that housing would be at the top of our agenda, because it is where climate change meets poor design and chronic undersupply.
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Gazprom tower is right for the site
Recent articles in BD covering the Gazprom City HQ competition in St Petersburg miss the point and risk misleading your readers.
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Competitions out
The correspondence (Letters January 12) on competitions fails to appreciate that they are in nobody’s interest. Frank Duffy is right (Soapbox) — they should be abolished.
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An apology please
On the subject of apologies (News January 12), when is Simon Jenkins going to apologise for his commanding role in initiating and implementing the Millennium Dome scandal?
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Housing deja vu
Poor 1960s estates were primarily the result of central government legislation and the housing cost yardstick.
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Following fashions
Simon Jenkins’ call for a “reconciliation commission” to apologize for 1960s modernism is a complete waste of time.
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Blame misplaced
An RIBA commission to look at the 1960s would not solve the problem. Those in charge then are in charge now — politicians. Central government controlled what was built.
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Architects in front
I agree with your editorial (January 12), that architects are ahead of the game and do not need to be lectured by the housing minister, let alone the housebuilders, on zero carbon housing.
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