More Opinion – Page 307
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Arb exam unfair
Further to George Oldham’s letter about the “pointless exam” (June 16), I must say that I concur with his comments and the efforts of the Arb reform group.As an illustration of the absurdity, I am working with a German designer (nice chap), who by virtue of coming from an EU ...
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Quality cast
Michael Hickey’s letter (June 30) about a legitimate name for high-quality aggregate precast concrete has got the generic name wrong. “Cast masonry” is a name I invented in the mid-nineties and have been spreading through the industry ever since. It arose in a conversation with Philip Dowson and Richard ...
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Welsh win would send wrong message
There will be several eyebrows raised this week over the inclusion, for the third year running, of a road on the shortlist for the prime minister’s better public building award.
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So what are we going to do now?
Architects are middle-class people who build for middle-class people. The notion of architecture as a fully independent endeavor mirrors the rise of the middle class, becoming a way in which this rising class could represent itself, make itself real.
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Tub Haagendas
When we say ‘we’, of course we mean ‘I’. But we must say ‘we’ occasionally to please the tax people. Bleeagh!
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Ian Martin
I need a new ‘-opolis' to seem really smart, and apparently ‘supercalifragilisticexpilalipolis' has already been taken
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Blame government, not the planners
Few architects have a kind word to say about planners, but do they really deserve to be blamed for undermining UK competitiveness and sending big business on its way?
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Form-making can transform society
It was a great honour to receive the Lubetkin Prize at the RIBA Awards on June 23. The award means a lot to me - particularly because Berthold Lubetkin has always been an architect whom I hold in the greatest regard.
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Being odious is not against the law
Amanda Baillieu's June 23 editorial delivered a welcome and succinct rebuttal to those RIBA members demanding that Peter Phillips should be barred from standing for president and from the RIBA, simply on the grounds of his membership of BNP.
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Political animals
Architecture is political: as architects we have the power to influence other people's decisions; we have the power to transform our environment for better or for worse; we are able to accept or decline commissions; and we have supposedly been trained to use our brains to create a humane environment ...
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One rule for all?
If we agreed with Peter Carolin's strategy to support the Commonwealth Institute's demolition (Opinion June 16) - it's leaky, cheaply built and redundant - presumably this would mean the Roundhouse should have been demolished many years ago.
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Trust the trustees
Richard Coleman (Letters June 16) implies that "learned professionals, though not heritage experts" failed to advise the Commonwealth Institute on planning law in relation to demolition of a listed building. This is not so.
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OpinionUnfit for purpose
In the debate over the merits of demolishing or restoring the Commonwealth Institute some have overlooked the fact that buildings exist to serve clients in particular and society in general, not a narrow aesthetic agenda.
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Woolly liberals
That the sheep on the Biennale drive were "clearly suffering" is utter nonsense (Letters June 23).
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Cast in stone
I note with interest that Terry Pawson's latest project (Works June 23) has external walls made of "cast stone".
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OpinionNorman Conquest
I expect every stout-hearted architectural yeoman now flying the flag of St George to vote for me
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Phillips' BNP links are toxic, but no bar
Should political affiliation be a bar to becoming president of the RIBA? This is the only question that is worth asking a week after it emerged that Peter Phillips, one of three candidates for the presidency, is a member of the British National Party.
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Music expresses the soul of Sheffield
So BD and Architecture Foundation's Architecture Rocks competition approaches its climax. It is an event in the long tradition of relating architecture to music. From Wittkower's treatise on Renaissance architecture, harmony and proportion, to Libeskind's use of Schoenberg to inform the Jewish Museum, people have tried to forge links between ...