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Full metal jacket
I go past Amin Taha’s building on Clerkenwell Road every day (News Analysis February 18).
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Gold standards
In his Gold Medal address (News February 18), Frei Otto criticised the interest of investors in making symbols and money rather than “a place for humans to live in”. A view perfectly illustrated by your adjacent report on Leeds’s new iconic, wow-factored, “starchitect”-designed tower.John Regan, Leeds
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Wrong turning
With regards to your article on our soon-to-be-opened building for BMW (News February 25), I feel the article is misleading with regards to the building’s extraordinary nature and its unique concept of combining several functions in one connective space.
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Architects have a moral responsibility
Everybody needs a roof over their heads. It is one of the great levellers that makes architecture such a diverse occupation.
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In the line of fireRegeneration minister Jeff Rooker has never minced his words, but at Monday’s Office of the Deputy Prime Minister select committee hearing, he was more than usually honest. “The red tape for the first phase [of Pathfinders] was astronomical beyond belief,” he lamented. “Whose fault was that?” ...
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OpinionLarry Malcic
Larry Malcic of HOK last year enlisted legendary architect Peter Cook to work 80 days a year at the practice and contribute to the design of a number of projects.
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Towards a common goal
BD last month suggested that planners could be the solution, rather than the problem. At last it is talking about planning as a process again, writes Steve Bee.
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Phil who cuts my hair — he tries his best — began his professional life at architecture school with me — mainly behind the bar, writes George Ferguson, RIBA president.
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Ian Martin
‘Every time I try bridge-building with architects, it wobbles. A pity, as we’ve a lot in common. They’re quite moany, aren’t they?’
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Ian Martin
Mr Farquear’say faces a further civil charge of lying unconscious in a plaza. We argue that this subverts the ‘Tyranny of the Vertical’
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OpinionSeeing through the glass argument
Ken Shuttleworth’s view (Soapbox February 18) that office buildings can be more energy efficient by reducing the glazed areas to 50% is absurdly simplistic.
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Solid example
Congratulations to Ken Shuttleworth for attacking the tired cliche of “glass box” buildings, which are as boring as they are inefficient.
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Shooting target
Understandably, residents and landlords on the Aylesbury and Packington estates see demolition and redevelopment as an attractive quick fix.
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Deeplish revisited
The government has aired proposals to demolish thousands of houses in the North-west (News February 11).
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Misinformation
I would like to make a point relating to your article, “Salisbury quits Arb board” (News February 18).
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Shaky concept
You’re having a right laugh this week, aren’t you (How we did IT February 18)? “Mathew Emmett’s aim is to integrate physical environments with ‘psycho-archi-ventions’.”
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Wonky wheels on PFIs trolley
An alien arriving in southern England this month would probably be pretty impressed with the architecture produced by the private finance initiative.