More Opinion – Page 299
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Doing your homework
To make a difference, architects must keep up with ongoing research and monitoring
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Ian Martin
Gone are the tables and black ties. The seats are in rows. The people are wider and there’s writing on their clothes
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Can Unesco focus minds at Liverpool?
Liverpool’s world heritage status appears to be in trouble. Next week a delegation from Unesco arrives in the city to decide if it needs to become embroiled in not one but several of the city’s new developments.
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Why is it so hard for young architects?
A year ago, when our practice Lynch Architects won the Young Architect of the Year Award, my wife Claudia and I were preparing to take our students to Oporto to see again the work of Alvaro Siza, and experience a place whose spirit can be felt in the care its ...
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Time to abandon chartered practice
Can I add my support to Tom Jestico’s suggestion (Letters October 6) that the RIBA’s chartered practice scheme is abandoned.
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What’s in it for me?
This is a letter I sent to the RIBA on September 15. To date I have not had, nor do I expect, a reply: I would be glad if you would answer the following question: What would becoming a chartered practice do for me?
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OpinionDraught contracts
I’m grateful to your experts for the suggestions about improving my house (Solutions October 6). While there are some great proposals, most run up against the problem I’m confronting, that I would have to rip out new fittings and gut a refurbished house that in all other respects is sound. ...
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VAT not credits
Carbon allowances or credits (Leader October 13) seem to be an exit strategy from taking responsibility for our environment.
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Postal precedent
The will of the Arb Reform Group, comprising architects democratically elected by the profession, has been circumvented by the ploy of using an extraordinary postal vote.
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Well disposed
As head of the school of architecture at the University of Sheffield, I would like to respond to Peter Fauset’s letter (September 29).
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Carbon allowances are a fair solution
It is not only the Conservatives who are facing difficulties reconciling a green agenda with cheap airfares.
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David Oncamera
Getting ready for the responsibility of government is like building a house together
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What we must learn from Copenhagen
Copenhagen has its share of yobs, drugs and drinking culture but is blessed with being a gentler and more tolerant city than many of its European counterparts — and much more so than some of our own metropolitan centres and “uburbs”.
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Suburban or urban — it’s one debate
As everyone piles into the great suburban debate (News September 29), it’s worth a quick reality check.
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Cut the crap
Why does everyone get their knickers in a twist whenever the suggestion emerges that suburbs might work as environments for people to live in? (News September 29).
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It’s unsustainable
Jon Rouse (News September 29) is wide of the mark in his comments in praise of suburbia:
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Scrap the scheme
The RIBA has postponed its chartered practice scheme by six months to allow practices more time to prepare for its requirements.
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Keeping a distance
We have the first ethnic minority president of the RIBA and he has rejected the idea of becoming a role model for others of his ethnic background (News September 22).
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Misplaced blame
In my letter published in BD September 22, I expressed concerns I have since discovered to be entirely untrue, concerning the selection of an architect for a project that our practice was keen to secure.