All Opinion articles – Page 86
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shape shifter
Jonathan Glancey (June 19) seems to be perpetuating an urban myth. Does he really believe the plan of the NatWest Tower was based on the NatWest logo?
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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Trust is robust
I would like to make it clear that your leader on the unfortunate collapse of the Civic Trust (May 29) was referring to the “Southern English” Civic Trust
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Cul-de-sac cure
In her thought-stimulating article, Carolyn Steel (Opinion June 5) does not mention the basic general objection to massive development in the Thames Gateway
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OpinionBeware theme park pastiche
Oxford University has a great opportunity to make a significant addition to contemporary architectural culture (News June 5)