All Opinion articles – Page 88
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OpinionConservation competence
I think you have identified the nub of the problem with the building conservation register (Leader April 9). Two skills are involved — the technical (vocational/craft) and the strategic (academic/ professional), and these run on different tracks
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Function defence
Work to gas fittings requires protection of function to prevent people blowing themselves and their possessions to kingdom come
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Equality first
The RIBA president is being both politically correct and defeatist to suggest that any move to acquire protection of function for the profession would be going against the tide
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Turning nasty
I am indebted to Robert Menzies (Letters April 17) for bringing it to my attention that in the 25 years or so that I have been visiting and writing about buildings, it has never before occurred to me to predicate a review on the turning circle within a project’s disabled ...
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OpinionStill out of touch
In 1989, RIBA president Maxwell Hutchinson wanted to get rid of the Arcuk
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Prince of peeves
Whatever the rather hysterical Charles Thompson (Letters April 17) may think of the Prince of Wales, the fact is that he speaks out for many people who are less than enchanted by so much of the output of some — not all — British architects in recent years
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Ode to joy
Thank you, Jonathan Glancey, for bringing up a worthwhile but neglected issue (Whatever happened to craft? March 27)
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Content majority
I am bemused by Gordon Kidd (Letters March 20) suggesting the answer to the poor turnout in the Arb elections is to “return Arb to its registration-only function”
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Drain the swamp
I agree with Susan Ballinger (Letters March 20). All planning and building regulations applications should be made by an architect as this would solve a lot of the problems — RIBA and Arb, take note!
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OpinionHeterodox on Hereford House
In its de-listing of Colin St John Wilson’s Hereford House (News February 20), the DCMS has gravely misjudged the building’s significance — it is important as his first work in the private sphere, following his noteworthy contributions at London County Council
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Survey the scene
The recent healthy debate about the regulation of the profession (Letters passim) poses difficulties in moving forward where none need exist
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OpinionThe third way
It has occurred to me that architects visiting London might be mildly surprised to see Palladio and Le Corbusier’s names writ large on the side of buses and in the passages of the Underground
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OpinionMipim 2009: Those crazy Russians
A Death Star-like development for the city of Tula wins this year’s megalomania competition
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Access denied?
I wonder if the Quarterhouse arts venue (Works February 27) has had an access audit undertaken?
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All in the name
I do not support protection of function. Even in Europe, this does not apply to small projects
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OpinionStop PFI cash going to banks
Given that Labour’s craven worship of bankers has dropped us so completely in the poo, it is extraordinary that we continue with the PPP/PFI “supertanker” that puts the provision of our public buildings in bankers’ hands (News March 6)
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Bridge of sighs
I read with extreme sadness about the setback for Thomas Heatherwick’s brilliant bridge design for King’s Cross (News March 6). What is £7.5 million to pay for excellence in the present climate, when a banker is rewarded for his mistakes with £20 million in public money to play golf in ...
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Time to educate
Over the past 15 years, I have delivered many seminars to the public, which often does not understand that being an “architectural designer” is not the same thing.