All Opinion articles – Page 85
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Clarification
In our story “Adjaye brought to brink of insolvency” (News July 24) we quoted RIBA Director of Professional Services Richard Brindley as saying that “Ojeu rules for all public contracts say that bidders can’t be in any form of insolvency”
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OpinionCapturing the end of an era
Only a small part of Bill Mitchell’s article is correct (Opinion July 24). The Kodachrome process was largely unknown in England until the late 1940s — most of the first colour images of England were taken by American servicemen or by expensive fashion magazines
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Barracks battle
While I sympathise with RSHP’s difficulties over the Chelsea Barracks scheme, aren’t we fighting the wrong battle with the wrong person in calling for a boycott?
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Carbon baloney
I think both architects and the specialist media are still paying lip service to the carbon-neutral issue. You need to get your act together if you are serious about this
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OpinionRIBA active on climate change
I am happy to tell David Nixon (News Analysis July 17) that the RIBA has been anything but waiting for the government to tell it what to do on climate change: the opposite in fact, with some impact
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Stand by RSHP
Two months ago, Sunand Prasad wrote to every RIBA member imploring them not to succumb to the pressure of recession by undercutting the fees and interests of fellow professionals
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Time for a review
The fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell is shocking. As someone involved in work to 1960s housing over 20 years, I would point out that while there have been numerous fires in tower blocks since the 1960s, most have been confined to a single flat, with perhaps minor damage to ...
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Visual impact
RE: Your story “RIBA’s choice of Stirling sponsor ‘undermines UK firms’”, News July 10
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OpinionFountain of truth
Who can say they are not surprised to see architects vying for the Chelsea Barracks scheme?
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Tower failures
The Camberwell fire (News July 10) raises two main points: first, the omission of the 900mm-high vertical and 600mm-wide fire breaks outlined in the London Building bylaws seems a major contribution
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OpinionTelling the truth about Chelsea
There has been a steady flow of misinformation about Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ approach to the design of the Chelsea Barracks proposal, particularly with regard to height and materials as well as local and statutory consultation
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Correction: July 17 2009
Last week’s front page story named Squint Opera among the British visualisation firms that had failed to win Olympic work
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Mersey unbeaten
In his paean of praise for Liverpool (Letters July 3), Robert MacDonald forgot to mention Everton Football Club (1878); and that Liverpool possesses, in St George’s Hall, arguably the finest 19th century building in the world
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It's a frame-up...
Is there really so little going on that you had to resort to a non-story about the LSC framework (News July 3)?
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OpinionFailing time test
DRMM’s Clapham primary school (Works July 3) “replacing unfortunate 1960s extensions” with an even more unfortunate 2000s extension, demonstrates how many architects have dismally failed to learn the lessons of recent history
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Correction
Flacq was accidentally left out of the list of architects involved in the winning bid to regenerate Canning Town (News July 3).
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OpinionNot so thrilled by car park
It is unfortunate that the undoubted aesthetic value of the “Get Carter” car park expounded by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl June 26) is not balanced by the also undoubted irrelevance to modern retail and the community who live and shop beneath its “dismally thrilling” concrete
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Recession aid
In response to your story on the RIBA’s services for members (News July 3) James Cooke and I provide the Managing in Recession service for RIBA