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Tate’s unappreciative beneficiaries
Tate’s maxim that the quality of its buildings is an essential aspect of the experience offered to its visitors will be tested again next week when it unveils its eagerly awaited plans for the future development of Tate Modern.
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Cabe must rescue guerillas from mist
On starting life, Cabe’s self image was that of a small, guerilla-like band, light and quick on its feet, avoiding the unwieldiness of bureaucracy. For a couple of years it adhered to this ideal but this could not last long because of its own spectacular success in gaining influence and ...
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Ian Martin
The consensus is that Israel should create a level playing field in Lebanon by bombing more of it, twice if necessary
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Ian Martin
Norman Foster wishes us luck, and offers a discount rate if anyone wants a future city built
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Who’s going to get tough on energy?
The government has struggled long and hard over the energy review, published this week. And, frankly, whatever it came up with was never going to make easy reading. As the economy continues to grow so does energy consumption. This, along with our reliance on coal as our main energy source, ...
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Forget nuclear and look to the long term
In the UK we have about 4,000sq m of land each — four times more than Bangladesh but less than most large western economies. The UK should be able to fuel and feed itself from renewable resources within its borders.
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Broken rules mean harm to industry
I would like to correct BD’s news story “Murphy upset over best coming second” (News July 7).
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But client is happy
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland-approved selection process was not a design competition, it was a combined quality and price process, with 70% score awarded to quality (of which only part was for design) and 30% score for price.
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Exam stress
I’ve now reviewed the examination record sheet for part I and part II that a candidate from our office was given after her interview for UK accreditation with Arb (“Arb group to review foreign accreditation”, News June 30).
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Answer is simple
Charles Edwards (Letters July 7) asks why, as someone who lacks qualifications recognised by Arb, he must undertake its examination when his German colleague with a qualification recognised under the Architects’ Directive does not . The answer is straightforward.
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President Prasad
The coverage over the third (BNP) candidate for the RIBA presidency has drowned out any debate between the two front runners, Valerie Owen and Sunand Prasad.
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Poptastic planner
Philip Watson explains how his full grant subsidised his fledgling music career (Letters July 7).
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Virtual verdicts
Software solutions have emerged to help architects test their facades against revised Part L. BDP’s Chris Yates takes a look ‘under the bonnet’
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I was there at non-riot meeting
I read your article “Phillips-induced riot fails to materialise” (News June 30) with interest. Far from being absent from the council meeting, I attended all the business items and presented three finance papers, including the 2005 annual accounts which show record turnover and profits under my stewardship as hon treasurer ...
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Rural elitists
Our policy director, Nicholas Boles, finds the CPRE’s attack on Policy Exchange (News June 30) unwarranted. As its report shows, just 11% of England is urbanised, our houses are old, expensive and small, and people are increasingly being made to live in flats — points Policy Exchange has been making ...
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Sheffield fledgling
I was disappointed to learn that the head of architecture at Sheffield University believes that “...there is no real connection between architecture and rock music” (Soapbox June 23). I studied at Sheffield from 1983 to 1990 and can recall no fewer than three bands led by architecture students that regularly ...
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Dublin rats
While studying architectural technology in Bolton Street (now Dublin School of Architecture at DIT) in the early seventies, two of my classmates, Gerry Cott and Pete Cusask, teamed up with Sir Bob to form the Boomtown Rats. I never knew what Geldof actually studied — he was just there!I ...