More Opinion – Page 279
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Peak practice
How quickly people forget! When I got my first job 35 years ago with Leonard Manasseh, a superb aerial perspective of his proposal for Snowdon’s summit (News May 4) sat in his foyer in Rathbone Street.
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It’s a mad world
Your headline (News May 4) regarding housing competitions could equally apply to the whole competition process. This is, generally, fairness gone bonkers.
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OpinionCoal not doled
The May issue of BD Magazine is packed with interest and really well presented, but Retrospect is wildly adrift concerning the “the health of toiling miners” in 1948.
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Hard times
It seems that Dickensian employment practices are alive and well in architects’ offices (Practice May 4).
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OpinionViews: The Williams Report is only the beginning
Design for Homes chief executive David Birkbeck says that government of whatever hue has no choice but to start a massive housebuilding programme - both at Thames Gateway and across the country. It could even be a vote winner
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OpinionBlog: How sustainability is merging skills
Architects and engineers must collaborate from the outset of a project, was the message from Mobilising the Environmentalists
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OpinionIn danger of losing the plot
Now is not the time for English Heritage to run down its level of architectural expertise
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OpinionHawkish times displace the US eagle
Saarinen’s US Embassy is a symbol of a more open, and now outdated, America
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OpinionThoughts are key to contests
It is entirely unnecessary for architects to be asked to produce extensive design as part of a competition process.
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Smoke and ire
As our office has long had an absolute no-smoking policy, I had thought that the smoking ban being brought into law in England on July 1 would not affect us.
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Minority vote
If the rewards and working conditions of the architectural profession were to improve, perhaps more women and those from ethnic minorities would join.
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Square despair
I would like to add to the debate on public spaces (Letters May 4). I walk through Gillett Square in Dalston nearly every day.
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OpinionUse your sense
Having spent 31 years visiting Aalto’s buildings in Finland and the US, I was delighted to attend the Alvar Aalto exhibition and study day last week at the Barbican. Sadly, both were disappointing.
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OpinionAre architects to blame for soulless housing estates?
David Lammy fears architects could be repeating the mistakes of the past, while David Barber argues we must devolve ownership of social housing
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Sound loaded
News reached Boots this week that Latin pop crumpet Ricky Martin will soon be Livin’ La Vida Loca in new digs.
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The Untouchable
Having been tough on Arb, PFI and architecture minister David Lammy, self-confessed street-fighter and RIBA president Jack Pringle is now getting tough on possible conflicts of interest within the institute itself.
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Switch it on
“They are out and they are proud, and their success is key to British life. Among them are actors, authors and, yes, even business people too.”
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Im your man
Still with newspaper lists, it seems that Norman Foster is flavour of the month at Rupert Murdoch’s News International.