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Opinion
The first item on the agenda is How Can We Make The Olympics More Sexually Explicit For Mr Murdoch?
Monday. How to make the dreary Thames estuary a lively location for 120,000 new urbanists?
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OpinionWhy UK housing can’t just go Dutch
In creating South-east England’s growth areas to boost housing supply, the Department for Communities & Local Government, and previously the ODPM, encouraged the UK building industry to look to modern methods of construction and procurement. Within this, the Netherlands was cited as a precedent.
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Insurance should rest with the client
Your articles last week (News and News analysis) expose the fault line in the business of insurance in the building industry.
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Can RIBA redress?
The RIBA has been considering issues of consumer protection over the past year and how clients like Mr and Mrs Shaw (News analysis November 24) could best be served.
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Small risk
Your leader last week highlighted how very tiny a risk is presented to clients by small practices and sole architects with a low turnover.
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Bypassing Arb
There must be many who, like myself, can barely believe that Arb can charge so much for so little for its part I and II assessment.
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Reform’s school
Jee Eun Lee and John Assael (Letters November 24) have every right to be incensed at the cost of the Arb assessment process; £2,400 for a process directly comparable to that which the RIBA administers for £250 simply cannot be justified.
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Learning curve
Your report on earn-and-learn in architectural education (News November 24) omitted to say that the project is led by Schosa (Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture), is based at the Centre for Excellence in Professional Learning from the Workplace within the University of Westminster, and is partnered by ...
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OpinionUrban urgency
Your report on the postponement of our conference Society, Architects and Emerging Issues (News November 24) did not mention the new dates for the event which are March 17 to 21, 2007.
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OpinionKieran McClôd
My team comes up with Twát, which stands for Thoughtfulness, Wit, Architecture, Television.
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New prisons ignore design at their peril
The government has embraced prison building with passion, but without a very clear idea of a modern prison’s function.
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Review panels need to be open
Until design review panels keep open minutes of their deliberations, such panels won’t wash in the eyes of the public (News analysis November 17).
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Arb outrage
I am astonished that Arb has raised its fee further. I am probably one of many who find it very difficult to understand how the Arb exam board has survived at all, given its utterly unhelpful exam procedure and ridiculously high application fee.
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It doesn’t add up
Arb has unilaterally increased the accreditation fees for the part I and part II one-hour interviews, first from £375 to £998 and now to £1,200 without consultation with the profession which it alleges wants the true cost to be passed on to students wishing to practice as architects in the ...
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OpinionMaking a drama
I have never had the pleasure of working for RRP, but your “Exclusive” is over-hyped.
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Drawings solution
Many years ago, I asked Norman Foster for some drawings to use with my school students.