All Opinion articles – Page 207
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OpinionWe can’t kill PFI, let’s cure it
Of course PFI is a problem, but we’re stuck with it, so the point now is to make it work better
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Self-defence
Arb and the RIBA should lobby for legislation that would require an architect to validate and endorse every planning application before it is submitted to the local authority. This would be in line with other EU countries.
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Protection, please
Small and medium-sized local practices are inevitably in competition with unqualified and often uninsured “architectural consultants” because of the size and nature of much of their work.
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What’s in a name
Amanda Baillieu is absolutely right, the title “architect” can never be protected, nor should it be.
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OpinionStandards, not title, matter
The debate over protection of title (Debate February 27) re-ignites every time the industry goes into recession and we architects start to feel the pinch of competition from each other and those we like to call “unqualified”.
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Hidden powers
Three architectural practices are in both the “good” and “not yet good enough” columns of Cabe’s school league table.
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OpinionHair today...
I was startled to see my photograph in your Archive last week, sitting with Robin Spence and Richard Holden, dated 1982.
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Royal dissent
Although, thank goodness, not a disaster of the magnitude of the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, illustrations of the opening ceremony of the Queen Mother memorial leave me disappointed.
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BSF is working
Your report “Cabe says half school designs aren’t good enough” (February 20) claimed MPs are concerned that plans for a new minimum design standard to ensure only the best designs get off the drawing board and into construction will slow delivery of this unprecedented programme.
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OpinionBarbican puts the boot in
The Corb show at the Barbican cruelly offers visitors a film about the demolition of nearby Milton Court, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon’s paean the master
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OpinionAustralians courting the line of fire
The outback’s deadly fires are claiming more lives as Aussies build deeper into the bush
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OpinionArchitecture’s fleurs du mal
City skylines the world over have been assaulted by the brash productions of neoliberalism for 25 years — it’s time we substituted these flowers of evil for a more sustainable and cultivated architecture
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OpinionCan modern architecture be truly sustainable?
Yes, says Hopkins’ MD Bill Taylor, we have no choice but to build sustainably; no, says the Victorian Society director Ian Dungavell, modern architects prefer gadgetry to thermal mass
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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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OpinionWhat makes a view special?
Legislation to protect much loved views of London needs overhauling if it’s to be really effective
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OpinionUnfashionable locations
As the bust finally hits Dubai, do Sanaa, designer of this year’s upcoming Serpentine pavilion, and Corbusier, the show of whose work is now at the Barbican in London after its Liverpool opening, point the way to a more humane and modest architecture?
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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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Correction
The cart lodge designed by Adam Richards Architects (First Look February 20) has in fact not yet won planning permission from Lewes Council.
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Charter fight
BD’s leader showing that Arb is unable to protect the public from pseudo-architects in the internet age was going along fine until suddenly it said: “Protect function by all means”
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More than enough for Boris
Mayor of London Boris Johnson was on top form at the London Planning Awards on Tuesday night in Foster & Partners’ City Hall, part of the More London development