More Opinion – Page 323
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Vote of confidence
While it is true that my late husband’s archive sustained some damage to its content following an accidental water leak at the RIBA (News September 23), I do not believe this has seriously compromised the quality of the archive as a whole.
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HOK corrections
In Concrete Boots, September 16, your piece suggests that HOK Sport does not become involved in less significant projects, which is incorrect.
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Bill Portal
Neo-Classical network architecture, IMHO, rocks. Pleasing proportions, and the ethernet connection kicks ass
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OpinionHadid and Alsop’s designs are tragic
On viewing the proposed schemes by Alsop and Hadid for a gallery in Edmonton, Canada (News September 23), I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or weep.
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Archive protection
For your top story last week you chose to feature an accident to an important collection while in temporary storage at our headquarters, some three years ago.I very much regret the damage caused at the time (fortunately to prints, not originals) and naturally we have acted to improve the housing ...
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Style is irrelevant
Regarding your article “Adam’s neo-classicism faces public style trial” (News September 16), I live very close to the proposed development and am opposed to it.Much of the aesthetics is a matter of taste, and so I make no comment on what is good design or on other work by Robert ...
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Arb is proactive
Richard Coleman, head of regulation, ArbFurther to Kate Macintosh’s letter (September 23), your readers should be aware that the Arb board is working hard to eliminate what is a national problem with BT directories and inaccurate architect classifications.We have, in fact, used the example in Clive Jones’s local directory in ...
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Bad design abound
Robin Vaughan seems to be quite excited, if a little confused, about the potential for the further testing of architects and their patience by Arb (News September 9). He shouldn’t, however, worry too much that “there’s a world out there thinking architects are doing well”. A perusal ...
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Aylesbury error
It is sad that your front page report in last week’s issue (News September 23) says that the Aylesbury estate was designed by Austrian architect Hans Trenton. This suggests that Southwark, which at the time had the largest housing programme in London, had brought in a private architect from abroad.For ...
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Defending defence
Further to your article “group calls for boycott of design show” (News September 16), we feel it is important that there is a balanced debate and that any errors of fact are corrected. Reed Exhibitions would argue that defence and security sectors play a vital role in preserving peace and ...
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When in Milan, design for Milan
Italian architects protested this month at the proliferation of foreign architecture appearing in their own country. What they are saying should make an elite minority of British architects stop and think.
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Adapt or die
Former BDP head Richard Saxon said this week that the profession needed to be more technically proficient, business savvy and team up to form “megafirms” to take on PFI work.
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OpinionAfter a fashion
English Heritage chief executive Simon Thurley has a reputation for being a bit of a dapper dresser.
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Beyond our Ken
Ken Livingstone is used to fighting the Labour party, but this time he’s up against a much more intransigent foe.
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Bombing bridges
In the same week as a report for the RIBA warned that architects were introspective and liked to think of themselves as misunderstood artists, Tony Fretton did little to heal any perceived rift between the general public and the profession.
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OpinionThe Leaning Tower of Pisa and me
I’d been visiting friends in Pisa since the 1980s, and then I had a fling with an Italian architect who lived in Pisa, who introduced me to the engineers working to stabilise the leaning tower.
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Why link 7/7 with Arb numbers?
Being the MD of an architectural practice predominantly made up of “black and minority ethnics”, I was intrigued by your headline “Black designers could ‘help beat terror’” (News, 16 September).
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When in Roma...
With reference to your editorial in BD 16 September, the sensibility of Italian architecture is firmly rooted in its sense of place. Perhaps the greatest exponent and exporter of this is the Renzo Piano Building Workshop. It at least acknowledges context, local/regional tradition, culture, environment and climate. Sadly the globalisation ...