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Not on the list
We recently had the excitement of being commissioned by a long-standing client for a major Thames-side site in central London.
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DSDHA not bitter
It seems to me that your enthusiastic salvo across the bows of the GLA’s Architecture & Urbanism Unit has gone wide of the mark.
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OpinionOut of the frame
I was unmoved by the wake of vested sensationalism following the Colindale fire, where an innocent bystander (a timber frame building awaiting its fire protection) rapidly became the industry’s Joan of Arc with a typically reductive red herring polemic: masonry versus timber frame.
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Creating ghettos
What was the Westminster Housing Commission thinking, or rather, not thinking of? (News September 15). Westminster has a small resident population and relies on other boroughs for its manpower.
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Bird solution
Further to your article on “Watch the Birdie” (News August 11), we can offer a few tried and tested methods of avoiding birds perching on buildings and the inevitable mess.
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Why foot Arb bill?
The debate revolves around the agreement by the board to at last systematically address one of its core functions (and the one which made the retention of registration attractive to the profession in 1997). That is protection of title. But why should protection of title be established at the cost ...
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Venice lessons don’t tell whole story
Anyone in Venice last week for the opening of the biennale might think they were witnessing a defining moment: the moment when architects were forced to admit defeat and confess they no longer had any answers to the problem of cities.
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OpinionThe story of Cinderella
Cinderella fantasised about finding a partner with whom she could practise happily ever after
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How Al Gore could change your life
“In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: ‘You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to.’”
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Register should be more accessible
It is sad to hear the Office of Fair Trading has endorsed the authority of the privately run Architects Accredited in Building Conservation register (News September 8).
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Ruling is an insult
If the RIBA ever wanted to know why so few people vote in elections or why they feel so unhappy and disenfranchised, it need look no further than the appalling setting-up of various registers for accreditation it keeps endorsing.
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Like with like
I’d like to add a footnote to the “Wales is mediocre” debate (Letters September 1 and 8) with some facts: Wales’s population is 3 million; England’s is 50 million.
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Listen to Israelis
The frequency of anti-Israeli articles and rants in BD is increasing, turning it into a platform for Abe Hayeem and Ian Martin’s Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, whose aim is to demonise and delegitimise Israel.
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Drawing the line
We were saddened to read (News August 25) that student drawings may have been binned by the RIBA and not returned to their authors.
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OpinionSinking feeling
Broadway Malyan’s image (News September 8) packed in the ugliest collection of 35-storey lumps you’re likely to see on SkyscraperPage.com.
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Altered altar
Gavin Stamp’s article on St George’s Bloomsbury (BD September 1) compelled me to refer to my 1948 student thesis on Hawksmoor’s London churches.