More Comment – Page 340
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Canterbury wail
I was dismayed to read of the possible closure of Canterbury School of Architecture (News April 8).
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Arbs a fair cop
I would be grateful if I might make a correction to the report on recent professional conduct cases (News March 24).
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Market politics
I haven’t always seen eye to eye with Terry Wyatt (Soapbox April 8), but on the question of the government’s backtracking on the Energy Performance of Buildings, I’m with him all the way.
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Planners hot date
With the government’s pressure on local planning authorities to achieve a high percentage of decision-making within the 56-day statutory period, what now can be seen is a growing trend for approvals appearing to be backdated and then posted first class, often arriving next day, but up to eight days after ...
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OpinionJulia Peyton-Jones
Serpentine director Julia Peyton-Jones, the force behind the gallery’s summer pavilion programme, gives the RIBA Trust lecture next week.
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OpinionOur prefab failures
Can architects design prefab housing? Yes, of course they can, writes Colin Davies.
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OpinionNot a drill
Architects spend a lot of time talking about the failings of the education system — perhaps because they spend so much time in it, writes Ellen Bennett.
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Stalling on crucial climate legislation
A rumour, running rife through property and construction, is that the government is stalling on a key measure that would be crucial in combating climate change.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Spaghetti loopyCharles Jencks and Melvyn Bragg’s double act on the South Bank Show was a moment to savour. The wordy duo took a walk around Jencks’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation. Sitting on the garden’s black hole terrace, Jencks’s observations included “you’re spaghettified when you enter a black hole” and, climbing ...
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Ian Martin
As we meander our way through coffee and biscuits, lunch, high tea, cocktails and dinner, the standard improves
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Clear language needs clear goals
Esther Kurland stops short of making a convincing case for architects to use plain English (Soapbox April 1).
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English lessons
Surely we have not undergone numerous years of design training only to reduce our knowledge into basic one- and two-syllable words so that the under-qualified staff that constitute the mess that are local planning authorities can understand us?
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Childs play
Kensal House Nursery (Works April 1) illustrates well the unfortunate hiatus between architects and landscape designers. Well done Cottrell & Vermeulen, but did you look outside the window?
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Life after Cube
Getting the public involved in architecture and design issues is a pivotal part of Cabe’s work.
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End to corruption
As one of the contributors to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report 2005 (News April 1), I would agree construction is the most corrupt sector, worldwide.