More Opinion – Page 310
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Traditional values
I found myself mentally wrestling with Charles Thomson's recent emphatic No Poundbury OK! (Letters May 5). Why does the profession behave as if modernism is written on tablets of stone, and why the need to reinvent the wheel each time before architectural desires are gratified?
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Sub-standard
John Gummer's proposal to scrap the Building Regulations to encourage "innovation" in construction (News May 19) has a familiar ring.
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Fighting chance
The new presidential triumvirate (Who will win your vote, May 26) sets Peter Phillips centre-stage, flanked by two candidates who sound as if they may have chosen their speech makers from ranks of government identikit androids. He sounds refreshingly apart, a bit like Jeremy Clarkson.
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Fountain fair play
Mary Bowman of Gustafson Porter suggests my continued pursuit for the truth behind the flawed competition is because my design was not shortlisted (Letters May 19). I was, in fact, never a competitor! I also have yet to contact her company.However, it is my continued belief that any design ...
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Clarification
Studio Egret West is the practice working with Edaw on the Holt Town Waterfront (News May 26), not Studio Egret as our abbreviated headline had it.
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Better schools? Where the real challenge lies
A real opportunity for better schools or a cash cow for those who have until now seen little profit in the educational sector?
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John Gummer's proposal to scrap the building regulations
John Gummer's proposal (BD 19 May) to scrap the building regulations raises two questions. What do we think their purpose is? If they were scrapped would other legislation soon take their place?
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OpinionIan Martin
By placing publicly commissioned lumps of art at nodal points on the city's energy lines you can unblock the ‘urban chi'
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When bigger is the opposite of better
Is gigantism a virtue? Apparently, yes. Fewer and bigger organisations has been one of the hallmarks of New Labour and, despite allowing the Home Office to swell like a beached whale, it still believes that big is beautiful.
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A real opportunity for better schools
For those working in the design and construction of new schools, the challenges and opportunities of PFI, Building Schools for the Future and other capital funding programmes have created hope and frustration in almost equal measure. Over the last 18 months, School Works and other partners have been canvassing architects, ...
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OpinionHow can Arb justify its actions?
Your coverage (News, Editorial, Soapbox, Focus May 19) of overseas architects working in the UK was exhilarating, reflecting that, as your editorial puts it, the acknowledgement that being an architect in Britain is "more liberating, more inquiring and more creative than anywhere else in the world". But you also draw ...
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Not so free state
I have just returned from a teaching engagement at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Along with other schools of architecture there, it enjoys RIBA validation which enables part II students to be overseas members of the RIBA and, in theory, eligible to take part III and ...
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Past the post
Seeing your headline "Arb reformers fall at first hurdle" (News May 19), I wondered whether James Rose and I were at the same race meeting. I saw five reformist runners enter the field and leave at the end having made the most constructive contributions to debate, along with two appointed ...
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Political intrigue
In your article on the Venice Architecture Biennale (News Analysis May 12), you quote Fred Manson's response that "if architects want to be political they should join political parties". Is this a misquote? I can't believe that so enlightened a figure would make this point.
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Corb in context
I fully support the initiative (News May 5) to bring a Le Corbusier exhibition to Liverpool 2008, but find the notion of burying his work in Lutyens' crypt alongside former Catholic bishops somewhat of a challenge.
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Free for all
John Gummer's proposal to scrap building regulations (News May 19) may help Richard Rogers to innovate but it won't help me.
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Green campaign
"Winning green hearts" (Solutions May 19) implied greater sustainability could be delivered by either regulation or PR. I believe the battle is best served by simultaneously tackling both fronts.
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Planning ahead
Writing on the admirable housing masterplanned by Feilden Clegg Bradley (Works May 5), Ellis Woodman put the achievement in context. Cambridge has a proactive planning department, until recently headed by an architect.