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Lost in exhibition
In 1967 at the Regent Street Polytechnic evening school of architecture I was awarded the Sir Bannister Fletcher prize for thesis design by Jim Stirling (with others).
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Unfeasibility study
The house plans in the “Sustainability report” (Concrete Quarterly, September 1) will create more heat from users than the building conserves due to its mean layout.
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Sifting through the embers for reason
The timber industry is on a roll, thanks to the government.
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The country house has left the country
One of the great glories of country houses is their fundamental irrationality.
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OpinionThis year’s Venice blobfest promises to be the most mischievous yet...
...as it’s going all political
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Stop whingeing at assembly building
You are at it again, in your front page on the Stirling shortlist, whingeing that the National Assembly for Wales building “cost three times its original budget” and was late in completion.
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OpinionStirling retort
I see you have used the nomination of the Welsh Assembly Building as yet another opportunity to take a swipe at Wales.
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Silver service
I was amazed by last week’s front page article “Prescott’s £60k house fades to grey”, which shows both bias and a tendency to score cheap points.
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Weather the storm
So, Prescott should be embarrassed because the £60,000 cedar-clad house suffered “damage” by fading to grey?
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Political vacuum
Having returned from holiday, I have just read reports on the number of votes Peter Phillips received in the RIBA presidential election.
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Corrections
Eric Parry is not a judge for the Stirling Prize, as reported in last week’s BD. The judges are: Mariella Frostrup, broadcaster; Martha Schwartz, landscape architect; Stefan Behnisch, architect; Isabel Allen, editor of the architects’ Journal; and panel chair Ian Ritchie, architect. A sentence in last week’s Soapbox was inadvertently ...
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Fear of the future is Betjeman’s legacy
Should John Betjeman be remembered for saving St Pancras and the Albert Bridge rather than his poetry?
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Heritage site has great modern hope
I have just moved into a new office, looking west, over Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008.
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The tale of the three little prigs
Every little brick in the house had its own little blog on MySpace, with all the other little bricks listed as ‘friends’
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Fee scales are not coming back
So architects are still insisting on a return to fee scales (News August 4). When are architects going to wake up? It is not going to happen!
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The reason I wont
Dear President, Thank you for your recent email “Five Reasons why you shouldn’t miss this years RIBA Conference”.Sadly I am unable to attend this years conference, for the same reason that I have not attended previous years: cost.To summarise:Attendance £478.80Five tours (daily) £195.60 (these are my preferred were ...