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Eric Parry is not a judge for the Stirling Prize, as reported in last week’s BD. The judges are: Mariella Frostrup, broadcaster; Martha Schwartz, landscape architect; Stefan Behnisch, architect; Isabel Allen, editor of the architects’ Journal; and panel chair Ian Ritchie, architect. A sentence in last week’s Soapbox was inadvertently ...
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Fear of the future is Betjeman’s legacy
Should John Betjeman be remembered for saving St Pancras and the Albert Bridge rather than his poetry?
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Heritage site has great modern hope
I have just moved into a new office, looking west, over Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008.
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The tale of the three little prigs
Every little brick in the house had its own little blog on MySpace, with all the other little bricks listed as ‘friends’
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Fee scales are not coming back
So architects are still insisting on a return to fee scales (News August 4). When are architects going to wake up? It is not going to happen!
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The reason I wont
Dear President, Thank you for your recent email “Five Reasons why you shouldn’t miss this years RIBA Conference”.Sadly I am unable to attend this years conference, for the same reason that I have not attended previous years: cost.To summarise:Attendance £478.80Five tours (daily) £195.60 (these are my preferred were ...
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OpinionShared Bath
We read with interest your well presented article about Bath’s new Spa (Works August 4).
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Down to a T
Tim Loftus (Letters August 11) refers in his letter “Mono classics” to the Lotus Elise (1957) as one of the first true monocoque cars.
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Architects burden
I have just attended a presentation by local authority town planning officers on the three Town & Country Planning statutory instruments published in May, and the DCLG Circular 01/2006 Guidance on changes to the development control system.
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Voters’ rights
Britain has an enviable social history where the rights and opinions of the individual have been recognised and respected — if not agreed with.
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Prize must look beyond the spectacular
What does the Stirling Prize shortlist say about 21st century British architecture?
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OpinionJust who is being dense here?
Setting up stalls at his Venice market, Ricky Burdett is peddling a high-density-fits-all range of future cities.
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Ken needs to deliver on his green pledges
A year on and the Olympics remains a mirage: it’s as if we can imagine the best of every games — Sydney’s weather, Barcelona’s buildings, Athens fireworks — recreated in the gritty urban wastelands of east London. But the mirage is starting to fade.
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Ian Martin
There’s a clever centrefold featuring skyscrapers arranged like The Usual Suspects
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Graduates need technical skills now
In your editorial about the latest crop of graduates (Comment, July 28), you say that “the complex technical requirements of putting a building together can come later” meaning students don’t have to acquire these skills at their schools of architecture.
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RIBA questions
Your editorial (Comment August 4) states that it would be better for the RIBA to direct questions about architecture and architects to audiences other than architects themselves.