All Opinion articles – Page 352
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More, more, more
I had the good fortune to visit Venice recently and took the opportunity to take in the Biennale.
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Trouble and strife
“It is architects’ wives who suffer the lack of planning” (News Analysis October 22). No doubt this will be a relief to the 4,300 female architects who don’t have one.Duncan Lawrence, Bath
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Welfare in a state
On behalf of the Architects Benevolent Society, I must offer enormous thanks for your article on the plight of many in the profession (News Analysis October 22).
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Unhelpful sign
It struck me the other day that the symbol used to denote “disabled” is in itself rather misleading, in a way that might actually be insidious.
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Modern menace
After the many kind remarks I have received, I was disappointed by George Saumarez Smith’s imperceptive and humourless response to my review of the Raymond Erith exhibition.
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Making something out of nothing
I am writing this on Monday evening, having just returned from a visit to my in-laws in Dresden, where they are intimately acquainted with disasters, both natural and man-made.
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Ian Martin
In the picture of Norman and me experimenting with string, I have been clumsily replaced with Jacques Chirac
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Youve had your fee, now fix it
I read with amazement Kathryn Gustafson’s denial that she was in any way to blame for the disaster that is the Diana memorial. Her disingenuous claim — that “the problem was people walking on it. It was never designed for that” — is patently rubbish.
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Wishful counting?
I suspect that the estimate (£50 million) for Zaha Hadid’s magnificent edifice (News October 15) must have been done by the same person who produced the first estimate for the new Scottish Parliament.Robert Rimell, London
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Clear as mud
In “Leading the green pack” (Green paper October 15), you admit that data on the carbon dioxide emissions for the primary production of different materials is less than half the story, but it is an even smaller fraction than this.
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Brutal gesture
I cannot see how Brisac Gonzalez’s brutal museum building got built (Works October 22).
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Hitting a brick wall
Robert Booth (Editorial October 15) states that it is wasteful that 2.5 billion bricks are destroyed every year in the UK. New bricks cost about 4p each. If he would like to invest in reclaiming bricks and then attempt to sell them, he will find out the reason.James Doran, Herefordshire
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Suffolk punchFormer Tory government minister and champion of lifting planning restrictions on new country homes, John Gummer MP, was not interviewed for the position of Cabe chair earlier this month, and now we know why. Gummer has launched himself into the protection of his Suffolk constituents threatened with losing their ...
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Blame the budget
I suppose we’re lucky to get away with “hamfisted”, rather than “reckless”, “overweening” or “boorish”, from Gavin Stamp’s compendium of extravagant epithets (Works October 8).
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Silver lining in Alsops cloud
One morning in late May, I met Will Alsop in the crow’s-nest office he occupies in his Battersea studio.
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Walsall wonder
I feel it necessary to spring to Caruso St John’s defence (Letters October 15).
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Timber trouble
While no one doubts Greenpeace’s intentions on FSC timber (News October 15), the RIBA and others might just find themselves in trouble with European and national competition law on restriction of supply of goods and services. Ian Macpherson, Guildford
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Ulster solution
The Northern Ireland Executive’s plan to appoint a Cabe-modelled design champion to improve architecture in the province is most welcome (News October 15).
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Ian Martin
MondayWorking breakfast (via videophone) with Norman, still aglow at getting Building of the Year for his Lewinsky Tower. “The only way is up, Norm,” I tell him. “These sausages are great.”His voice drops. Did I know he’s currently working on the “largest project on the planet”? I have three guesses. ...