All Opinion articles – Page 355
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Ian Martin
Monday My old friend Nick Bugglesrings. The opening toga party’s off, yet again, for his Roman Spa Experience at Cheltenham.The scheme has now officially taken longer than Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain. I caution him, in Latin, to watch out for backstabbing.Tuesday To the Labour Party’s wonkfest, where the buzzword ...
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OpinionNarrow the goals
Ellis Woodman’s article “Too many cooks” about the Venice Biennale (BD September 17) is the best thing that I’ve read in the architectural press for a very long time.
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Educating RIBA
I was surprised to read that architectural education was plunged into crisis after what is, even in the terms of your article “Arb and RIBA clash over school reports” (News, September 24), common ground between Arb and the RIBA, ie, that there is room for improvement in the quality and ...
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DDA is a learning curve worth taking
Until now it was easy to say that everyone should be aware of issues that affect how disabled people use the built environment.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
No tears shedEdinburgh-based architect Moray Royles is still waiting for a public inquiry verdict on whether a shed in his garden complies with strict local planning regulations and will be able to remain. But Royles is not bothered by the delay. “The longer the verdict takes the better, because I ...
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RIBA must kiss and make up with Arb
The RIBA’s latest challenge to the Arb marks yet another battle in a futile war.
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Space revelation
I have in front of me a thesis that I prepared, as an architectural student in 1948, on Hawksmoor’s London churches.
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Question of status
If the 20,000 other “architectural designers” that Stan Green refers to (Letters September 17) are as bitter and twisted as he is, then those of us who are qualified to call ourselves architects have nothing to fear. He can jump, stamp his feet, but it won’t change a thing — ...
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The professionals
So, Stan Green doesn’t believe in the protection of the title “architect”, and feels it is part of a conspiracy by the architectural establishment, to which he does not belong (Letters September 17).
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Not so naive
As a young architect working on a regional RIBA competition, I ensured that our submission complied with all the conditions, including a modest build budget.
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Ian Martin
Lots of chrome and deep-pile carpet, complicated handshakes, Baroque hi-fis and “blinguistics”
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Humber no-go
I can only assume that no one from “the North” had a hand in writing the Spotcheck column (News September 10), as they would have spotted that Humberside ceased to exist in 1996.Emma Coyle, London
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Can the RIBA fight for the good life?
Twenty months after John Prescott launched the housebuilding extravaganza he calls the Sustainable Communities Plan, the RIBA has at last begun to fight architects’ corner.
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Nations far from united on money
Your account of the key findings of the Fraser Report into the Holyrood Scottish Parliament building (News September 17) includes that “the £40 million to £50 million budget… was never going to be sufficient to secure an original design”.
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Staying on message during party season
Over the next few weeks, politicians from the three main parties will decamp to the seaside for the annual party conferences.
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Delivering Barking
I would like to stress that Barking & Dagenham council has been closely involved in both the selection of the new masterplanner and the development of the emerging masterplan for Barking Riverside, and it’s a situation that will continue throughout the life of the project.
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Suit for all sides
In response to “A dressing down” (Letters September 10), the use of the “encumbering suit” (News analysis August 27) is by no means a publicity stunt as suggested by Sek Cheong Ho.
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Zero tolerance
Anyone who saw the Ground Zero documentary recently will know to take statements that all is well on the design team with a big pinch of salt, but Daniel Libeskind seems content. “We are at a good point,” he gushed. “We are at the final stages of negotiation with Larry ...