All Opinion articles – Page 302
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Altered altar
Gavin Stamp’s article on St George’s Bloomsbury (BD September 1) compelled me to refer to my 1948 student thesis on Hawksmoor’s London churches.
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How Al Gore could change your life
“In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: ‘You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to.’”
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Register should be more accessible
It is sad to hear the Office of Fair Trading has endorsed the authority of the privately run Architects Accredited in Building Conservation register (News September 8).
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Unfeasibility study
The house plans in the “Sustainability report” (Concrete Quarterly, September 1) will create more heat from users than the building conserves due to its mean layout.
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Marina madness
I thought last week’s letter from Chris Teague of Cardiff was incredibly rude: tragically, Wales is the home of the plastic window and what good vernacular architecture they had has mostly been trashed.
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OpinionGorilla warfare
There was I thinking that award-winning penguin pools and elephant houses were regarded as inappropriate in the 21st century, when BD devoted a whole page to the “ingeniously constructed” new gorilla enclosure at London Zoo (Solutions, August 25).
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Frosty reception
I was a bit surprised at Amanda Birch’s slighting references to the BBC2 Blizzard programme in her article on Scott’s hut (Solutions, September 1).
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Forget your peers, give us practicality
Architects hate Building Regulations because they represent, however crudely or simplistically, a kind of feedback from society.
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Watch your figure
As chief executive of Local Authority Building Control, I was very concerned to read your front page story headlined: “Two in three architects believe building control damages design quality” (News, September 1).
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Lost in exhibition
In 1967 at the Regent Street Polytechnic evening school of architecture I was awarded the Sir Bannister Fletcher prize for thesis design by Jim Stirling (with others).
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Sifting through the embers for reason
The timber industry is on a roll, thanks to the government.
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The country house has left the country
One of the great glories of country houses is their fundamental irrationality.
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OpinionThis year’s Venice blobfest promises to be the most mischievous yet...
...as it’s going all political
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Assembly anger
Ellis Woodman describes Rich-ard Rogers’ Welsh Assembly as “dogmatically observing disabled access” (News August 25).
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Weather the storm
So, Prescott should be embarrassed because the £60,000 cedar-clad house suffered “damage” by fading to grey?
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Silver service
I was amazed by last week’s front page article “Prescott’s £60k house fades to grey”, which shows both bias and a tendency to score cheap points.
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OpinionStirling retort
I see you have used the nomination of the Welsh Assembly Building as yet another opportunity to take a swipe at Wales.
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Political vacuum
Having returned from holiday, I have just read reports on the number of votes Peter Phillips received in the RIBA presidential election.
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The tale of the three little prigs
Every little brick in the house had its own little blog on MySpace, with all the other little bricks listed as ‘friends’