All Letters to the editor articles – Page 20

  • Richard Rogers
    Opinion

    Rogers’ scheme sounds too good to be true

    2011-12-02T08:47:00Z

    I am delighted to see that Richard Rogers is now declaring his commitment to designing affordable housing (“We’re not in Hyde Park anymore” News November 25).

  • Opinion

    Jack Cotton's flighty fortune

    2011-12-02T08:36:00Z

    The man who ran the firm that designed Jack Cotton’s ill-fated Monico scheme in 1959 (Archive November 25) was a then little-known — as far as London was concerned — Yorkshire architect from Pontefract called John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson.

  • Henrietta Barnett School Hopkins
    Opinion

    Poor marks for school scheme

    2011-12-02T08:33:00Z

    As an architect and a long-time resident of Hampstead Garden Suburb, I would describe Hopkins’ extensions to the Henrietta Barnett School (Buildings October 6) as a disaster.

  • The Lord Mayor's Show, 1984
    Opinion

    Remember the RIBA’s masque

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Your Archive picture (November 18) did not show a dress in the shape of Liverpool Cathedral but the St Paul’s Cathedral costume used in the finale of the masque about Sir Christopher

  • Heatherwick Studio's radical proposals for the Royal Docks waterfront in east London
    Opinion

    Reviving docks is no new problem

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Docks (News November 18) have been a subject of urban studies in UK schools for at least a decade. The LDA could find some past student projects eye-opening.

  • Opinion

    Councils will lose powers to prevent development

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Ron Heath (“Planning is built on democracy” Letters November 18) is right to point out the democratic deficit in the Draft National Planning Policy Framework and the Localism Bill but it is potentially even worse than he states in this world of Orwellian “newspeak”.

  • Opinion

    Localism begins at home

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    This is a local shop, in prime position,

  • Poundbury Waitrose by Quinlan & Francis Terry
    Opinion

    Prince shouldn’t back Waitrose

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles seems to think a pastiche of classical architecture can lend some credibility to blatant overdevelopment (“In store for Poundbury” News November 18).

  • Opinion

    No pity for ASL’s management

    2011-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Regarding last week’s front page story, (“Austin-Smith Lord owed £11m for Abu Dhabi work” News November 18), here are the facts: plenty of practices are trading here and getting paid; the Abu Dhabi government is still a viable partner to do business with and not the devil incarnated.

  • Opinion

    Slow-mo pomo poem’ll show ’em

    2011-11-18T00:00:00Z

    In response to David Rosenberg’s review of the Radical Postmodernism Architectural Review

  • Opinion

    Planning is built on democracy

    2011-11-18T00:00:00Z

    I refer to your leader last week “Democratising planning” and am wondering about the accuracy of your comments.

  • Opinion

    Chipperfield Biennale report jumped the gun

    2011-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Like many people I was rather surprised to hear about my appointment as the curator to the next Architectural Biennale in Venice (News November 11).

  • Opinion

    It’s time to agree on contracts

    2011-11-18T00:00:00Z

    I have always suspected that lawyers create fees for themselves by taking “accepted”contracts and adding small but critical changes that they can debate with other lawyers to nobody’s benefit but their own.

  • Opinion

    Plans bode well for Aberdeen

    2011-11-18T00:00:00Z

    I visit Aberdeen frequently. On nearly every trip I have to walk round the Union Terrace Gardens when I would like to walk through them or visit them to enjoy the peace and greenery of the place. This I cannot do because of my limited mobility.

  • Opinion

    Leicester dept’s real heroes

    2011-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Your elevation of me to hero of the week (Leader October 28) was unwarranted: the future safety of Stirling & Gowan’s Engineering building and Stirling’s Oxford and Cambridge buildings should correctly be attributed to a raft of people who see beyond current fashion and appreciate the architecture of a period ...

  • Opinion

    In denial over fire safety concerns

    2011-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Just to put Boots right (“Out of the frame” November 4) I will of course be attending the afternoon session of the UK Timber Frame Association’s conference even though my invitation to act as keynote speaker and to attend the morning closed session to stakeholders has been withdrawn.

  • Opinion

    Competition was steamed up

    2011-11-11T00:00:00Z

    The design competition for the Windermere Steamboat Museum (BD October 28) seems to have produced a first: five entrants with one architectural idea between them. This is the result of the RIBA’s severely flawed “design” competition system.

  • Opinion

    Foster’s breadth of vision is what the country needs

    2011-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Hats off to Foster & Partners for self-funding its courageous initiative (“Foster launches £50bn infrastructure plan” News November 4).

  • Opinion

    Heygate still has a long way to go

    2011-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Lend Lease held a consultation workshop on Saturday to discuss the new Heygate masterplan.

  • Jimmy Savile
    Opinion

    How Jim fixed Stoke Mandeville

    2011-11-04T00:00:00Z

    I noticed this tribute to the late Jimmy Savile from a Keith Walters of Norwich on a BBC website: