All Opinion articles – Page 307
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So what are we going to do now?
Architects are middle-class people who build for middle-class people. The notion of architecture as a fully independent endeavor mirrors the rise of the middle class, becoming a way in which this rising class could represent itself, make itself real.
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Sheffield fledgling
I was disappointed to learn that the head of architecture at Sheffield University believes that “...there is no real connection between architecture and rock music” (Soapbox June 23). I studied at Sheffield from 1983 to 1990 and can recall no fewer than three bands led by architecture students that regularly ...
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Rural elitists
Our policy director, Nicholas Boles, finds the CPRE’s attack on Policy Exchange (News June 30) unwarranted. As its report shows, just 11% of England is urbanised, our houses are old, expensive and small, and people are increasingly being made to live in flats — points Policy Exchange has been making ...
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Dublin rats
While studying architectural technology in Bolton Street (now Dublin School of Architecture at DIT) in the early seventies, two of my classmates, Gerry Cott and Pete Cusask, teamed up with Sir Bob to form the Boomtown Rats. I never knew what Geldof actually studied — he was just there!I ...
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Quality cast
Michael Hickey’s letter (June 30) about a legitimate name for high-quality aggregate precast concrete has got the generic name wrong. “Cast masonry” is a name I invented in the mid-nineties and have been spreading through the industry ever since. It arose in a conversation with Philip Dowson and Richard ...
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Arb exam unfair
Further to George Oldham’s letter about the “pointless exam” (June 16), I must say that I concur with his comments and the efforts of the Arb reform group.As an illustration of the absurdity, I am working with a German designer (nice chap), who by virtue of coming from an EU ...
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Trust the trustees
Richard Coleman (Letters June 16) implies that "learned professionals, though not heritage experts" failed to advise the Commonwealth Institute on planning law in relation to demolition of a listed building. This is not so.
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OpinionUnfit for purpose
In the debate over the merits of demolishing or restoring the Commonwealth Institute some have overlooked the fact that buildings exist to serve clients in particular and society in general, not a narrow aesthetic agenda.
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Woolly liberals
That the sheep on the Biennale drive were "clearly suffering" is utter nonsense (Letters June 23).
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Ian Martin
I need a new ‘-opolis' to seem really smart, and apparently ‘supercalifragilisticexpilalipolis' has already been taken
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Form-making can transform society
It was a great honour to receive the Lubetkin Prize at the RIBA Awards on June 23. The award means a lot to me - particularly because Berthold Lubetkin has always been an architect whom I hold in the greatest regard.
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Cast in stone
I note with interest that Terry Pawson's latest project (Works June 23) has external walls made of "cast stone".
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Blame government, not the planners
Few architects have a kind word to say about planners, but do they really deserve to be blamed for undermining UK competitiveness and sending big business on its way?
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Political animals
Architecture is political: as architects we have the power to influence other people's decisions; we have the power to transform our environment for better or for worse; we are able to accept or decline commissions; and we have supposedly been trained to use our brains to create a humane environment ...
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One rule for all?
If we agreed with Peter Carolin's strategy to support the Commonwealth Institute's demolition (Opinion June 16) - it's leaky, cheaply built and redundant - presumably this would mean the Roundhouse should have been demolished many years ago.
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Being odious is not against the law
Amanda Baillieu's June 23 editorial delivered a welcome and succinct rebuttal to those RIBA members demanding that Peter Phillips should be barred from standing for president and from the RIBA, simply on the grounds of his membership of BNP.
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Living in the past
In Soapbox, June 16, Nick Johnson nearly makes a valid point, but he obviously has not been in this business long enough!