More Opinion – Page 352
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Youve had your fee, now fix it
I read with amazement Kathryn Gustafson’s denial that she was in any way to blame for the disaster that is the Diana memorial. Her disingenuous claim — that “the problem was people walking on it. It was never designed for that” — is patently rubbish.
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Brutal gesture
I cannot see how Brisac Gonzalez’s brutal museum building got built (Works October 22).
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Clear as mud
In “Leading the green pack” (Green paper October 15), you admit that data on the carbon dioxide emissions for the primary production of different materials is less than half the story, but it is an even smaller fraction than this.
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Hitting a brick wall
Robert Booth (Editorial October 15) states that it is wasteful that 2.5 billion bricks are destroyed every year in the UK. New bricks cost about 4p each. If he would like to invest in reclaiming bricks and then attempt to sell them, he will find out the reason.James Doran, Herefordshire
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Wishful counting?
I suspect that the estimate (£50 million) for Zaha Hadid’s magnificent edifice (News October 15) must have been done by the same person who produced the first estimate for the new Scottish Parliament.Robert Rimell, London
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Unhelpful sign
It struck me the other day that the symbol used to denote “disabled” is in itself rather misleading, in a way that might actually be insidious.
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Welfare in a state
On behalf of the Architects Benevolent Society, I must offer enormous thanks for your article on the plight of many in the profession (News Analysis October 22).
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Modern menace
After the many kind remarks I have received, I was disappointed by George Saumarez Smith’s imperceptive and humourless response to my review of the Raymond Erith exhibition.
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Blame the budget
I suppose we’re lucky to get away with “hamfisted”, rather than “reckless”, “overweening” or “boorish”, from Gavin Stamp’s compendium of extravagant epithets (Works October 8).
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Trouble and strife
“It is architects’ wives who suffer the lack of planning” (News Analysis October 22). No doubt this will be a relief to the 4,300 female architects who don’t have one.Duncan Lawrence, Bath
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Silver lining in Alsops cloud
One morning in late May, I met Will Alsop in the crow’s-nest office he occupies in his Battersea studio.
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Making something out of nothing
I am writing this on Monday evening, having just returned from a visit to my in-laws in Dresden, where they are intimately acquainted with disasters, both natural and man-made.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Suffolk punchFormer Tory government minister and champion of lifting planning restrictions on new country homes, John Gummer MP, was not interviewed for the position of Cabe chair earlier this month, and now we know why. Gummer has launched himself into the protection of his Suffolk constituents threatened with losing their ...
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Ian Martin
In the picture of Norman and me experimenting with string, I have been clumsily replaced with Jacques Chirac
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Too busy enjoying the job to retire at 91
There is something about practising architecture that keeps one going on longer.
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Putting the wow before green idyll
It struck me as ironic that your Green paper supplement should appear in the same issue as the review of the new Scottish Parliament building (BD October 15).
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Ulster solution
The Northern Ireland Executive’s plan to appoint a Cabe-modelled design champion to improve architecture in the province is most welcome (News October 15).
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A bitter pill
Yet another survey confirms the public is reluctant to swallow the modernist pill that architects have been trying to administer to them for years (News October 15).