More Comment – Page 313
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Greedy jibe unfair
As a construction lawyer who subscribes to BD and has written a number of standard form contracts, I was surprised by your argument (Leader May 12) that bespoke architects' appointments are created by lawyers to inflate their fees.
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Basic lack of trust
If you're designing churches or private houses maybe the new RIBA Standard Form of Agreement will catch on, but investors and developers don't trust each other let alone their architect.
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Diana obsession
Ivor Hall appears to have dedicated his life to the Diana Memorial. He has made countless requests to the DCMS under the Freedom of Information Act to gain information for a book.
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Undeserved praise
Cambridge residents may be surprised to learn we have to thank a "proactive" planning department for anything. (Works May 5) The ground-breaking development on Brooklands Avenue is not due to the planning department's efforts: quite the reverse.
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Bald brick boxes
I am astonished at Alain de Botton's "hope and celebration" at Fielden Clegg Bradley's lamentable housing complex in Cambridge (Letters May 12).
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Flawed criteria
I read the article informing us of the Cambridge Architecture School's prowess with a cynical slant (News May 5).
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Correction
Patrick Bellew's practice Atelier Ten is an environmental engineer not a structural engineer as stated (Soapbox May 12).
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OpinionHerminone Potter
Removing the colon from ‘local:vision' will be the first of many sweeping changes here, by the grace of God
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These greedy lawyers must be stopped
It can only be sheer greed that is behind lawyers' growing interest in the dull world of architects' contracts.
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A question of supply and demand
As the bloodstains dry on No 10's doorstep, following the blame-shuffling reshuffle, we can only wonder whether John Prescott was sidelined for his dalliances or for his role in the chaotic introduction of the new Part L.
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Drama, not crisis
I guess crises come in all shapes and sizes. Only getting half the Arts Council funding we expected was a certainly bit of a shock at the time, but I would like to reassure visitors that it will not affect the biennale programme or their enjoyment of it at all.
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Venues merely first impression
Your piece "Olympic design squeeze" (News April 28) suggests that the venue designs prepared during London's Bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games may never be built. You would be right. But this is not a scoop.
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OpinionRepeat business
Anyone interested in high-quality ordinary housing has traditionally had little choice but to lament what's on offer from the volume housebuilders. However, there's a serious reason to start to hope and celebrate, to judge by Feilden Clegg Bradley's scheme for Countryside Properties in Cambridge (Works May 5).
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Frozen music
The proposed Le Corbusier exhibition, destined for Liverpool in 2008, is clearly going to need some creative support and innovative thinking to achieve the 100,000 visits to balance the RIBA's books for the event (News and Comment May 5). From your leader's realistic comments on Corb's lack of direct contact ...
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Woolly liberals
Sheffield is not the only local authority where the Lib Dems have threatened wholesale demolition of sound housing stock to curry votes from the "get us out this hell" brigade (News April 28).
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High-rise hell
As Ian Simpson prepares to move into his lavish penthouse atop Manchester's Beetham Tower (This Week April 28), he might find J G Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise an entertaining read.
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Corrections
A historical error appeared in our story on the restoration of Nelson's column (News May 5). Nelson won the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 not the Battle of Waterloo, which was of course won by Wellington in 1815.
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OpinionIan Martin
Listen to two very intense architects for three hours as they explore the "elemental character of brick"
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RIBA's Le Corbusier show is nothing new
Architecture exhibitions are devilishly difficult to get right. The London Architecture Biennale, which looks set to quadruple its audience in its second year, is one way of communicating a difficult subject - so more's the pity that the Arts Council has cut its application for funding and made its future ...