All Opinion articles – Page 303
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Heritage site has great modern hope
I have just moved into a new office, looking west, over Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008.
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Corrections
Eric Parry is not a judge for the Stirling Prize, as reported in last week’s BD. The judges are: Mariella Frostrup, broadcaster; Martha Schwartz, landscape architect; Stefan Behnisch, architect; Isabel Allen, editor of the architects’ Journal; and panel chair Ian Ritchie, architect. A sentence in last week’s Soapbox was inadvertently ...
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Fear of the future is Betjeman’s legacy
Should John Betjeman be remembered for saving St Pancras and the Albert Bridge rather than his poetry?
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Stop whingeing at assembly building
You are at it again, in your front page on the Stirling shortlist, whingeing that the National Assembly for Wales building “cost three times its original budget” and was late in completion.
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Voters’ rights
Britain has an enviable social history where the rights and opinions of the individual have been recognised and respected — if not agreed with.
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The reason I wont
Dear President, Thank you for your recent email “Five Reasons why you shouldn’t miss this years RIBA Conference”.Sadly I am unable to attend this years conference, for the same reason that I have not attended previous years: cost.To summarise:Attendance £478.80Five tours (daily) £195.60 (these are my preferred were ...
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Down to a T
Tim Loftus (Letters August 11) refers in his letter “Mono classics” to the Lotus Elise (1957) as one of the first true monocoque cars.
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Prize must look beyond the spectacular
What does the Stirling Prize shortlist say about 21st century British architecture?
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OpinionJust who is being dense here?
Setting up stalls at his Venice market, Ricky Burdett is peddling a high-density-fits-all range of future cities.
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OpinionShared Bath
We read with interest your well presented article about Bath’s new Spa (Works August 4).
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Fee scales are not coming back
So architects are still insisting on a return to fee scales (News August 4). When are architects going to wake up? It is not going to happen!
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Architects burden
I have just attended a presentation by local authority town planning officers on the three Town & Country Planning statutory instruments published in May, and the DCLG Circular 01/2006 Guidance on changes to the development control system.
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Wait till the resits
Your report on Edinburgh College of Art’s part I results (News July 28) requires two corrections:
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RIBA questions
Your editorial (Comment August 4) states that it would be better for the RIBA to direct questions about architecture and architects to audiences other than architects themselves.
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Mini mistakes
I do not think Marco da Cruz can have done any research at all on the origins and structure of the Mini.