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Offensive image
I am quite certain Jan Maciag's comment (Letters May 19) will cause wide and deep offence.
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Good job too
Brighton University did not "score nil" for students' job prospects in the Education Guardian's league tables for architecture.
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Correction
Northern Edge did not receive a letter from English Partnerships clarifying the reason for its rejection from the 60K house competition, as reported (News May 12).
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OpinionIan Martin
The real secret in the Corb Papers is known only by a shadowy and ruthless cabal of modernists, possibly with a Latin name
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Foreign worker influx raises questions
There is a new army of foreign workers in Britain - and they're not Polish plumbers. They are architects who are finding that life here, particularly in London, has more to offer than it does back home. The numbers are impossible to gauge so BD thought it would do its ...
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OpinionOverseas students show superior skills
Arriving in Karachi is an unusual experience. A significant number of the meeters and greeters are carrying rifles, the temperature is 34°C and on the way into town the armed guards and I are overtaken by a moped carrying a family of four; the woman rides side saddle with a ...
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OpinionStop lawyer's job creation scheme
I am delighted that both the RIBA and BD have taken up the cudgels on what is a transparent lawyer job creation scheme - the increasingly pernicious influence on clients by lawyers, who waste everyone's time and money on bespoke forms of agreement and special warranties (News May 12).
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Greedy jibe unfair
As a construction lawyer who subscribes to BD and has written a number of standard form contracts, I was surprised by your argument (Leader May 12) that bespoke architects' appointments are created by lawyers to inflate their fees.
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Basic lack of trust
If you're designing churches or private houses maybe the new RIBA Standard Form of Agreement will catch on, but investors and developers don't trust each other let alone their architect.
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Diana obsession
Ivor Hall appears to have dedicated his life to the Diana Memorial. He has made countless requests to the DCMS under the Freedom of Information Act to gain information for a book.
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Undeserved praise
Cambridge residents may be surprised to learn we have to thank a "proactive" planning department for anything. (Works May 5) The ground-breaking development on Brooklands Avenue is not due to the planning department's efforts: quite the reverse.
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Bald brick boxes
I am astonished at Alain de Botton's "hope and celebration" at Fielden Clegg Bradley's lamentable housing complex in Cambridge (Letters May 12).
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Flawed criteria
I read the article informing us of the Cambridge Architecture School's prowess with a cynical slant (News May 5).
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Correction
Patrick Bellew's practice Atelier Ten is an environmental engineer not a structural engineer as stated (Soapbox May 12).
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OpinionHerminone Potter
Removing the colon from ‘local:vision' will be the first of many sweeping changes here, by the grace of God
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These greedy lawyers must be stopped
It can only be sheer greed that is behind lawyers' growing interest in the dull world of architects' contracts.
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A question of supply and demand
As the bloodstains dry on No 10's doorstep, following the blame-shuffling reshuffle, we can only wonder whether John Prescott was sidelined for his dalliances or for his role in the chaotic introduction of the new Part L.
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Drama, not crisis
I guess crises come in all shapes and sizes. Only getting half the Arts Council funding we expected was a certainly bit of a shock at the time, but I would like to reassure visitors that it will not affect the biennale programme or their enjoyment of it at all.