All Opinion articles – Page 82
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Opinion
Wider tradition
If we follow Jonathan Glancey’s argument (October 30), we can’t win. If our survey on public taste in architecture compares similar things we’re superficial, but if we’d compared unlike things we’d be biased
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OpinionAD addendum
For the record, Monica Pidgeon (News: obituary September 25) didn’t publish Rem Koolhaas: that was Haig Beck in 1977, after she had left Architectural Design
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OpinionGraphs belong to another era
I must admit I was surprised to learn that some practices still use the fee survey graph to calculate fees. Removing this from the RIBA A Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect will surely be beneficial to architects and clients alike
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Still badly paid
The RIBA needs to be doing more to get a standard fee level agreed between architectural practices. This process should not involve clients at all
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Goodbye to Berlin
“Welcome to Germany”... “Berlin Boost” (Letters October 23) — the navel-gazers put one in mind of the incomparable Mort Sahl, when contemplating the build quality of the VW Beetle: “How did they lose?”
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OpinionCorrection
Last week’s news item on Project Orange’s forthcoming extension to the Moran Hotel in Chiswick was unfortunately accompanied by an image of the existing building.
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Some key points
Your report on designs for the new Tottenham Court Road station (News October 16) calls it “the first of three key interchange stations in the Crossrail project”. Three?
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Solid structures
Not only was structural engineering (Letters October 16) part of the AA’s syllabus in the 1940s and 1950s, back in the 1960s (and of course before and after that golden age) it comprised an important part of the architecture syllabus at Edinburgh College of Art
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OpinionWelcome to Germany
I recently attended a splendid dinner in Berlin to celebrate the completion of David Chipperfield’s renovation of the Neues Museum.
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Alive and well
Please apprise Jonathan Glancey (October 16) of the fact that Civic Trust Awards are still going ahead and that there are a lot more this year
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Biting back
In Andrew Mead’s rather sour review of my new book, The Freedoms of Suburbia (Culture October 2), he seems to be still brooding — 40 years on — about the anarcho-libertarian Non-Plan special issue of New Society magazine, which I wrote with Reyner Banham, Peter Hall and Cedric Price in ...
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Berlin boost
I was passing through Berlin last week with three hours to spare and walked over to see the Neues Museum.
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Cockerell & bull
In the final episode of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour, earlier this month on Channel 4, I was distressed to hear McCloud attribute the design of St George’s Hall, in Liverpool, to Charles R Cockerell
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FO credentials
Your piece “Foreign Office U-turn over embassy costs” (News October 16) does not ring true in our experience
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Food for thought
Having just returned from the Rotterdam Biennale, I can’t help but feel Oliver Wainwright’s write-up was a little harsh (Culture October 9)
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OpinionBetter training, better decisions
It may well be that many councillors who sit on planning committees have no prior knowledge or training in any aspect of the built environment and are ill equipped to pass judgment on schemes that come before them
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Correction: 02 October 2009
Our review of Land Architecture People (Culture September 25) described co-curator Clare Melhuish as a critic
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Alsop sadness
You know you’ve hit rock bottom when your best option is to become part of the “world domination” team of RMJM (News October 2)
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OpinionArched feat
Your coverage of the plan to rebuild the Euston Arch omits a key fact: the new arch is proposed in the wrong place (it was never in Euston Square but a couple of blocks to the north)