All Letters to the editor articles – Page 15
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OpinionKensington a right royal mess
Last bank holiday (miserable and rainy) my wife and I decided to cheer ourselves up by visiting the newly refurbished Kensington Palace to check out quite how the £12 million had been spent (Buildings May 18).
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OpinionSchools muddle is a huge failure
I found Michal Cohen’s (Debate May 25) defence of Michael Gove’s school-building strategy a rather weak apology, especially compared with the straightforward account by Yasmin Shariff.
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OpinionCompetitions do test design skill
Your leader (May 25) on why competitions won’t solve procurement problems for small practices completely misses the point, which is that the thing that differentiates a useful architect from a not-so-good one is that the former knows the trick of using design to solve a client’s problems.
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OpinionBim overlay is for everyone
I would like to clarify a few points raised by architects and readers of BD regarding the RIBA’s new Bim Overlay to the Plan of Work (Letters May 25).
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OpinionHodder lacks the glamour needed
The RIBA needs to actively solicit a president who will satiate the media’s desire for glamour, celebrity and sound bites.
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OpinionPavilion fails test of usefulness
I am sorry, John McAslan, but good architecture is not all about revelation and innovation (Debate May 18).
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OpinionIs school choice unattainable?
Given that the green paper on special educational needs and disability states that disabled children and those with SEN can have the right to seek a place at any school how can the government possibly build schools for this reduced amount? (Leader May 18)
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OpinionRIBA bim overlay missed the point
Why were no small or medium-sized practices consulted for the RIBA’s bim overlay for the Plan of Work? (News May 18)
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OpinionArchitect fathers need flexibility
It is very interesting to (finally) read an article from a new father describing the difficulties of combining an architectural career with helping to raise a young family (Speaking Out May 18).
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OpinionFoundations live in the memory
David Rogers (News May 11) has misunderstood Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei’s plans for this year’s Serpentine pavilion.
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OpinionSingle-minded on double-aspect
Thank you for a lovely review of an attractive building (Buildings May 11).
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OpinionBoris, get tough on development
A key task for Boris Johnson’s second term must surely be to get a grip on the hateful tide of ugliness steadily creeping across his great city.
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OpinionWaterloo space is being eroded
Owen Hatherley (Opinion May 4) does not mention the huge curving structure filling in the upper levels of the eastern side of Waterloo station, currently causing great inconvenience to passengers.
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OpinionRefurbish Elliott, don't demolish it
While I agree entirely with Kate Macintosh in her description of buildings as a public embodiment of collective memory (Letters May 11), her “musings” have a wistful, elegiac tone of resignation which, at least in the case of Elliott School, I hope is premature.
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OpinionPublic forgotten in station design
Owen Hatherley (Opinion May 4) states that “public comfort is low on the list of things required in a contemporary transport hub”.
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OpinionDemolition aims to erase the past
The news of the threat both to John Bancroft’s listed school in Wandsworth and to the archives of the Women’s Library and the Trades Union Congress Collection in the not-so-safe-keeping of the London Met gives rise to musings on the importance of the collective memory.
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OpinionSelf-build needs to be affordable
We too share the government’s enthusiasm for self-build houses (Leader May 4).
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OpinionDoes Fat win the popular vote?
As ever with Fat, the “jokey” architectural language is overlaid with some pretty intelligent planning (Buildings April 27).
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OpinionBattersea ideas are out of touch
The call for demolition [of Battersea Power Station] (bdonline April 20) is absolutist — and not in keeping with the times.
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OpinionLondon Met plan beggars belief
The news that London Metropolitan University is contemplating selling Wright & Wright’s brilliant Women’s Library building in Whitechapel and its priceless collection of papers and books is an outrage