All Opinion articles – Page 90
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Follow the money
At last someone has dared to question protected title (Leader February 20). It is not that title cannot be protected. It is just that, as you say, it is a waste of time and money
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Qualified success
Protection of the title of architect is ineffective without protection of the role. Individuals cannot use the title without being registered with Arb, but can carry out any services they like without qualifications. It is futile to protect the title without protecting the role.
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100% effort
It is pointless for the RIBA’s Jane Duncan to exhort architects not to work for reduced fees (Debate February 6). As in the last recession 15 years ago, the market will decide what fees we shall be able to charge. Indeed, I understand that Tesco has already cut the fees ...
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OpinionSea change for Southampton
Southampton is a sad city, as described by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl February 6), and I would like to see a similar article on Liverpool.
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Courtesy title
It is bad enough having the media routinely ignoring the terms of the Architects’ Registration Act and calling any old plansmith an architect without you doing the same in your story about the Prince of Wales’s “Surfbury” development (News February 6).
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OpinionMystery deepens
The mystery man next to Cedric Price (Archive February 6) looks like a young Michael Brawne.
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OpinionMud lark
Jonathan Glancey might like to know that construction using mud and earth (“Building with mud, glorious mud”, February 6) is alive and well in north-east Yorkshire. I am currently restoring buildings of rubble stone bound with mud. These date from the late 17th century, so have stood the test of ...
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Seeing the light
It’s scary to find out that we have something else to worry about other than the impending worldwide collapse of the architectural profession and its client base — the loss of the 100W incandescent light bulb.
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Test of time
Our scheme in Southampton’s French Quarter, mentioned in your feature last week, offers truly mixed uses, mixed tenure and tenure-blind accommodation. It also supports commercial office and retail, sheltered and affordable rented accommodation, shared ownership and outright sale homes — the sale units have all sold faster than other similar ...
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League analysis
Schosa acknowledges there are many legitimate ways of analysing the data emerging from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
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OpinionLet’s rethink US embassy plans
Even with the enormity of the economic struggles that lie before him, I hope President Obama and his team can find time to address one small yet important issue: how does America project its ideals in the capital cities of the world?
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OpinionWomen’s work
Do you, like me, ever sit at your desk and wonder where the boundaries of your duties lie, or even whether our clients comprehend the task we have to do?
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Corrections
AOC teaches at London Metropolitan University, not Leeds, as stated in Debate, December 5.
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OpinionOffence will lose RIBA members
Last week I received a letter from the president of the RIAS outlining the RIBA’s intention to increase subscriptions by 3% and asking for the views of the profession in Scotland. I am not in favour.
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Time to think
Carolyn Steel (Opinion December 5) raises an important question ignored for the past decade: how to improve derelict real estate and retain the community hub within it.
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OpinionDesign advice is key to planning
Jonathan Glancey’s suggestion (November 28) about setting up design training oriented towards planning would be beneficial in the long term
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Design for all
As an aged architect-planner, I was heartened to hear your call for the borough architect to be brought back.
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Back to panels
You suggest that “a huge cheer greeted the latest review of the planning system” (Leader November 28). I am not sure who from!
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No call for change
Parliament Square (Solutions December 5) is already a very fine pedestrian space, skilful in its design, masterplan and detailed elements