All Opinion articles – Page 86
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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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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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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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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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Corrections: 03 July 2009
Richard MacCormac reduced the length of Southwark station’s passenger tunnel by 16m, not 60m (News June 26), cutting the cost by £1.6 million.
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Bury disinterred
Martin O’Shea’s reassurance (Letters June 26) that plants will grow all over the new Studio MGM building in Bury St Edmunds brings to mind that old dictum of Frank Lloyd Wright: “Doctors can bury their mistakes. Architects can only plant vines”
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OpinionEngineering is the real cost
If good architects are appointed early enough and can develop new station concepts with clever engineers, then there is always additional “value” in the design and very often significant cost savings
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Democracy myth
At the risk of prolonging the saga, I feel I have to respond to Stuart Heaton (Letters June 26)
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Outside edge
I was delighted to read about excluded student Aaron Collins going on to win a place on Kingston’s architecture degree course and then a major national award (News June 26)
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Hang on in there
I graduated with my part II in 1991 during the last recession and after a desperate couple of years of unemployment found work as a cleaner in order to support my family and regain some dignity
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OpinionLove Liverpool
Barbara Follett must have had her mind on something else when she opined that “Liverpool was something of a culture-free zone before the European Capital of Culture 2008” (Boots June 19)
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Bad education
Tim Ward’s letter (June 19) raised only one aspect of the architectural students’ woes. The other is that they leave their schools with a woefully inadequate education
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Barrier grief
While I think that shared spaces offer an improvement on the cluttered streets we tolerate, the thought that they exclude blind and partially sighted people makes me uneasy
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OpinionDon’t Bury it yet
Having seen Studio MGM’s timber-framed and clad apartments rise from a particularly drab corner of the Bury St Edmunds ring road over the past couple of years, I was aghast at John Henry Kneller Eborn’s prejudiced and ill-informed letter (June 19)
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Dead on the slab
Amidst the burgeoning hubris of an architect spurned, your leader was most welcome, pointing out that the Chelsea Barracks scheme was probably heading for rejection by due democratic process
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OpinionA deficiency of democracy
I disagree strongly with your Leader (June 19). Surely the Qataris bought the Chelsea Barracks site first, with a view to obtaining a planning permission, and then second making a lot of money selling off their prestigious apartments.
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It’s an imposition
The first two objections to the Rogers Stirk Harbour scheme put forward by the Chelsea Barracks Action Group are that the scheme is too high and too dense