All Opinion articles – Page 76
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Correction
A review of Farshid Moussavi’s book The Function of Form (Culture March 5) incorrectly described Moussavi as a former partner in Foreign Office Architects
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OpinionDevaluing the profession
In the summer I had an interview with James Parritt, who claimed Parritt Leng had plenty of work and was not feeling the recession like other practices, contrary to partner Kuan Leng’s comments (News March 12)
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Ease planning
Last week’s leader berates developers for not getting on with developing derelict brownfield sites
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Getting the hump
Last week’s BD featured a large photograph of a Children’s Centre in Barnes (Works March 12)
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Living proof
What a shame that Austin Williams (Debate March 5) uses environmental awareness as a negative point in the future of the architectural profession
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Marriage value
Katie Wilmot (Letters March 12) should relax. Architecture is being served by the use of 66 Portland Place for weddings and other non-RIBA functions
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OpinionMen of vision
It is with great sadness that I read last week about the deaths of two of architecture’s greatest minds: Bruce Graham and Raimund Abraham (News March 12)
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No to Battersea
Your story “Cabe backing fuels Viñoly Battersea application” (News March 26) quotes Cabe director of design Diane Haigh saying: “we have reviewed [the proposals] six times… this has resulted in a strong scheme which Cabe is confident will be a success”!
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Classic error
In case BD readers think I have gone mad, I most certainly did not write “Paternoster Square never goes away, it has the longest pedigree of all the styles” in your 40th anniversary celebration
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OpinionLet’s draw a veil over this idea
Much like Jonathan Glancey (March 5) I was shocked when made aware of the proposals to partly transform the RIBA into a “wedding venue” (News February 26)
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OpinionNo entrance?
With reference to your article on Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne (Works March 5), the bottom left photograph on page 28 is subtitled “A freestanding canopy marks the entrance at the centre of the plan”
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Object lessons
Re “Cabe told assessors to destroy scores” (News February 26), I have experienced a similar practice of being required to return sheets with scores and notes at meetings called to consider submissions for public art projects
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Out of the picture
As an archivist I find you bring a very salutary element of architectural reality into a very large architectural archive where “modern” mainly refers to the 1930s-1960s
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OpinionShoal patch
I would like to clarify that the Shoal at Stratford (News February 19) is not intended to hide the Stratford Centre but — together with the less talked about public realm improvements across the wider town centre — to set a confident tone for the current and dynamic regeneration of ...
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OpinionAxe BSF and save us £2.3bn
When the Building Schools for the Future programme was launched in 2004, ministers promised it would result in every state secondary school in England being rebuilt or refurbished by 2020
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Critical acclaim
I would disagree with some of the points made by Ellis Woodman in his Works article on February 19 about the Museum Folkwang
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Top ambassadors
Your article on embassy overruns (News February 19) highlights the problems of the Foreign Office’s selection system
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Function not fun
Piers Gough argues against pleasing the public (Debate February 19), saying “forwarding the art of architecture is the point of having architects”
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OpinionHaile laughable
Your report that titanium leaves costing £3 million are to hide the poverty of London’s East End from the eyes of Olympic visitors (News February 19) reminds me of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie