All Letters to the editor articles – Page 30

  • Richard Murphy's Edinburgh scheme
    Opinion

    Critical mass

    2011-02-11T00:00:00Z

    I don’t like Richard Murphy’s new project design for Edinburgh

  • Education secretary Michael Gove leaves Downing Street.
    Opinion

    Send for Rogers

    2011-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Education secretary Michael Gove is quoted saying: “We won’t be getting Richard Rogers to design your school”

  • Opinion

    Blame game

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Education has been a political football in the UK since 1945 and this has been, and continues to be, detrimental to the progress of this country

  • Opinion

    Building enmity

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The surge in new school building and refurbishing, sponsored by the government and administered by BSF, is to meet the backlog of neglect in the existing stock, caused by many years of shameful lack of maintenance.

  • Opinion

    Dot con

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Please can you bring back the dot-to-dot.

  • Toby Young
    Opinion

    Daddy would not be proud

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    To borrow from 1066 and All That (which I’m sure Gove would like us all to do), Toby Young is repulsive but right

  • Opinion

    RIBA diva

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    It is sad that my institute abolished the RIBA Trust at the urging of the chief executive, in the absence of some council members, on a narrow vote

  • Opinion

    Falling flat

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    As someone who has fought battles with his local authority over the quality of design for our local PFI-funded school building projects, the news about flat-pack schools is about as depressing as it gets (bdonline, January 28)

  • Opinion

    History lessons

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Toby Young is right – to a degree – but the argument is getting polarised (News, January 28).

  • Education secretary Michael Gove leaves Downing Street.
    Opinion

    Preset limits

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Out of the costly BSF frying pan and into the now frugal but still centralised fire! (“’Flat-pack’ schools will make architects redundant” bdonline January 28)

  • Opinion

    Grads for all

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    I can’t commend Grads highly enough (“Newcastle Grads scheme sets pace for recruitment News January 21).

  • Opinion

    Docklands vision

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    I don’t want to detract from Reg Ward’s great visionary qualities (News January 21).

  • Opinion

    Only way forward

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Further to the restructuring of the RIBA and abolition of the RIBA Trust, members will have received an email from the president about statements made in the press

  • Opinion

    Home making

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Your leader (January 21) views the dumping of Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Oxley Woods designs primarily through the prism of Modern

  • Oxley Woods in Milton Keynes
    Opinion

    Oxley Woods: the inside story

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Your front page story and leader (January 21) contain much that supports what has been achieved at Oxley Woods to date. However, the headline,”Rogers ditched” is misleading and contradicts the success story described in both pieces

  • Opinion

    Window smear

    2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Your feature on student buildings at Somerville College, Oxford (Technical January 14) shows a window unit section that is unbelievable

  • RIBA's London HQ
    Opinion

    An insult to all who gave time

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The creation of the RIBA Trust a few years ago really marked a positive sea change in the way the cultural side of architecture was to be cared for

  • Opinion

    All in it together

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    You quote Richard MacCormac in the issue of 14 January as being worried “about the RIBA’s ability to maintain its scholarly commitments”

  • Opinion

    Border skirmish

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Levent Kerimol is an unlikely character to review Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine.

  • Opinion

    No comparison

    2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Reviewing Shoshan/Grootens’ Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine, Levent Kerimol suggests that “an equivalent look at Jewish ghettos, holocausts and pogroms, placed alongside the constrained conditions of Palestinian Arabs could raise an ironic hypocrisy in the present situation”.