More Opinion – Page 171
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OpinionSee Venice Little-Britain style
Shades of Vicky Pollard dominate the Venice Architecture Biennale
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OpinionQuangos quiver under Osborne's axe
Today is the dry run for the pain ahead, but already squeals can be heard from Cabe, from English Heritage and from the Tate. All have lost 3% of their annual budget, which doesn’t sound so bad, but Cabe is facing cuts of up to £800,000 in its annual budget, ...
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OpinionSurrey Quays, the real Tory heartland
The Conservative non-planners of the eighties have never been held to account for their legacy
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OpinionWhat a difference a day makes
The new architecture and heritage minister is not, after all, Ed Vaizey but John Penrose, who until the election was shadow minister for business, enterprise and regulatory reform.
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OpinionWho will pay for our memorials?
Despite there being a moratorium on memorials in London’s Royal Parks, and the recommendations by the planning officers of City of Westminster to refuse the application, Westminster’s planning committee has approved the Bomber Command Memorial for Green Park, an irrelevant and ridiculous 100m-long grand colonnade on Piccadilly – a colonnade ...
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OpinionSticking point
The problems raised by Charles Bain Smith (Letters May 7) appear to have been “resolved in part” by Theis & Khan, as shown in Works of your May 14 issue
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Sad slave labour
What a sad profession architecture really is - practices only kept economic by slave labour hours, by graduates who will be sacked the next day once whatever horrible, meritless building they are working on has moved on from documentation stage
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Please leave now
Architects spend their lives whining, blaming Conservative governments and playing the martyr, almost revelling in their tough education and massive redundancies in the bad times
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One step beyond
Your correspondents (Letters May 14) showed proper concern for child safety in the precise spacing of balusters
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Legislate now
As a long-in-the-tooth chartered architectural technologist, well versed in building regulations and providing clients with a good service I am bound by a code of conduct that states quite clearly that full members of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologist offering architectural services are required to carry professional indemnity insurance.If ...
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OpinionA home under St Paul’s dome?
The most unlikely conversions could make magnificent places to live.
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OpinionDeath row and data protection
Boots was concerned to read about the plight of AA graduate-turned property developer Aziz Qayoumi (pictured) who is currently on death row in Kabul
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OpinionIs the sketch superior to the computer-generated image?
Yes, says Alan Dunlop, a line drawing lasts the test of time; while Alice Scott thinks computer rendering is a more powerful tool
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Building on the bureaucratic rubble
Coalition government could be the best news the construction industry’s had in years
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OpinionOur heritage is in your hands
The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail needs your help to survive
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OpinionGove gets off to a bad start
The new education secretary’s ill-informed remarks suggests he has little understanding of architecture
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OpinionGove must try harder, not us
As an architect who has been working on school projects, including BSF schemes for the last 15 years, I feel I have to respond to Michael Gove’s statement that architectural practices “have done so well out of the Building Schools for the Future programme by creaming off cash which should ...
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Going it alone
I much enjoyed the article “Orange is the only Fruit” on the Lakerlopen Housing Project by Biq (Works April 30).
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Time for change
In common with many others, I am beginning to despair of the RIBA. Its timid approach on the low pay issue, the disarray of RIBA London, and the council members who have not signed the declaration of interests form, thereby potentially making council decisions open to challenge, are all signs ...