All Opinion articles – Page 79
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OpinionSave our post-war schools
While it’s great to see a large batch of Victorian and Edwardian schools listed (News January 22), it’s the later, 20th century, and especially post-war, schools that we are most likely to lose
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OpinionRude welcome
Judging only from the photographs of Christ’s College secondary school (Works January 22) it does seem, to my eye, and maybe to the eye of a child, to be oppressively unwelcoming and cheerless from the outside. Pity
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Capital offence
While reviewing the requirements for the Forgotten Spaces competition (News January 8), we noted the sentence: “The site should be local to the competitor’s workplace or home.” We assumed this must be an unfortunately worded sentence, however, on quizzing the RIBA, this competition is indeed closed off to architects who ...
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Correction
The reference to Jay Merrick’s article on Salvation Army Chelmsford (Quoted January 8) incorrectly credited the project to Andrew Hudson
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OpinionWasted energy
While I remain unconvinced that the relatively small amounts of man-made CO2 contribute significantly to climate change, (a belief which seems to me to rely overmuch on weak maths, poor science and too much religion), I have always been in favour of conserving energy and resources
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New schools first
The Building Schools for the Future programme has always been committed to the refurbishment of existing school buildings or other suitable premises where appropriate (News January 15) — and there are numerous examples so far, such as Elm Court School in Lambeth, which have given a new life into historic ...
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Living proof
Ron Barnes (Letters January 8) makes various comments on Cabe’s Building for Life criteria, and then denounces both schemes in your cover story about the Kickstart programme (News December 18) as being unacceptable, judging them, it seems, on the basis of one photograph each
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OpinionUniversities did not overspend
University spending has not been luxurious and cutting expenditure will have serious long-term implications for the sector (Leader January 15)
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History is for all
This whole business of accredited conservation architects has gone too far. It is clearly less to do with old buildings and more to do with new markets
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Raising the bar
I couldn’t agree more with the basic point of last week’s leader. The quality of many schemes funded by round one of Kickstart is not good enough. But if he thinks Cabe is hamstrung by a contract for doing the assessments, think again
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Clarification
MUMA wishes make it clear that Julian Harrap Architects worked with it on the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the V&A (Works December 11) acting as historic building consultant, and that its contribution was critical to key aspects of the project.
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OpinionA discredit to conservation
Whose idea was the proposed RIBA conservation accreditation (News January 8)?
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Don’t kick it
It does on the face of it seem disjointed for Cabe to promote a set of design standards which is apparently ignored by the HCA in making its funding allocations (“MPs call HCA to account over Kickstart standards” News January 8)
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An end to fee fall
Boots (December 11) misrepresented the Manchester Society of Architects. Ryder Architects’ bid would have been selected on the quality of its proposals and its recent successful completion of Newcastle City Library
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OpinionWork and profit
In the last Boots of 2009 there was a piece on Vicky Richardson that I thought presented a slightly blurred image of her
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OpinionNo excuse to abandon quality
Yes, we have an urgent need for social housing, but the HCA’s haste will prove a false economy
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Correction
In December 18 Solutions , we said the BaleHaus at Bath University as “designed by architect Craig White” and referred to “architect White Design”
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OpinionPrivate spaces give extra value
While I applaud the general aims of Building for Life, it places insufficient emphasis upon space within, and outside, the dwelling