More Comment – Page 357
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Staying on message during party season
Over the next few weeks, politicians from the three main parties will decamp to the seaside for the annual party conferences.
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Ian Martin
Lots of chrome and deep-pile carpet, complicated handshakes, Baroque hi-fis and “blinguistics”
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Nations far from united on money
Your account of the key findings of the Fraser Report into the Holyrood Scottish Parliament building (News September 17) includes that “the £40 million to £50 million budget… was never going to be sufficient to secure an original design”.
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Not so naive
As a young architect working on a regional RIBA competition, I ensured that our submission complied with all the conditions, including a modest build budget.
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Delivering Barking
I would like to stress that Barking & Dagenham council has been closely involved in both the selection of the new masterplanner and the development of the emerging masterplan for Barking Riverside, and it’s a situation that will continue throughout the life of the project.
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The professionals
So, Stan Green doesn’t believe in the protection of the title “architect”, and feels it is part of a conspiracy by the architectural establishment, to which he does not belong (Letters September 17).
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Question of status
If the 20,000 other “architectural designers” that Stan Green refers to (Letters September 17) are as bitter and twisted as he is, then those of us who are qualified to call ourselves architects have nothing to fear. He can jump, stamp his feet, but it won’t change a thing — ...
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Suit for all sides
In response to “A dressing down” (Letters September 10), the use of the “encumbering suit” (News analysis August 27) is by no means a publicity stunt as suggested by Sek Cheong Ho.
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Humber no-go
I can only assume that no one from “the North” had a hand in writing the Spotcheck column (News September 10), as they would have spotted that Humberside ceased to exist in 1996.Emma Coyle, London
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Space revelation
I have in front of me a thesis that I prepared, as an architectural student in 1948, on Hawksmoor’s London churches.
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Can the RIBA fight for the good life?
Twenty months after John Prescott launched the housebuilding extravaganza he calls the Sustainable Communities Plan, the RIBA has at last begun to fight architects’ corner.
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Holyrood: A warning to clients
The architects have escaped taking the full brunt of the Holyrood blame, but only because the client group bungled things in a more spectacular way than anyone thought possible.
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Ignoring clinical experts unhealthy
As healthcare planning adviser to the competing Renaissance team on the Barts/Royal London Hospital project, it would be inappropriate for RKW Healthcare Strategists to comment on the specifics of the controversial Skanska/HOK design which the Trust initially selected (News August 27). What does concern us is the suggestion that the ...
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Health matters
I read the August 27 Leader “Predators step into Royal London ring” with great interest. Having done some assessment work on the design scheme, I have to say this bid has a very complicated brief.There is no basis for saying the design by one consortia is better than the other. ...
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OpinionHarsh but true
While sympathetic, I am not sure I entirely agree with David Hebblethwaite about Channel 4’s Trouble at Ground Zero programme (Letters September 10). Pitting the faux naive “idealist” Libeskind against the smooth calculating developer’s hack Childs did make “gripping” soap drama but was it unfair to architects? Most architects ...
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Silliness continues
I thought the start of September was supposed to mark the end of “silly season”. Your September 3 front page suggests otherwise.If Wakefield District Council and its coterie of media-friendly architects really think it is appropriate to package up “regeneration” and the spending of public money for the benefit ...
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Timber specified
BD: Our survey of architects’ use of Forestry Stewardship Council approved timber reported Alsop Architects’ assertion that the practice had not used FSC-timber on The Public in West Bromwich. The client has written to correct this stating:“We have specified the use of FSC wood in Clause A.6515 of the tender ...
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The name game
Don’t worry aunty Beeb, you are doing nothing wrong by referring to TV presenter Charlie Luxton as an architect (News September 10). He, like 20,000 other “architectural designers” in the UK, are in-fact architects (design and supervise the construction of buildings). A problem only arises when they trade under a ...