All Letters to the editor articles – Page 33

  • Opinion

    Pub architects

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Last year I questioned the powers of protection of the word “architect”

  • Opinion

    Bad science

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    It is interesting that David Kohn praises Camden’s public housing of the sixties and seventies for being experimental (Culture November 5)

  • Opinion

    Creative gap

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Your enlightened leader (October 22) is dead right about British planners’ lack of creative design

  • Opinion

    Good riddance

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The government’s curtailment of the Thames Gateway is not only necessary, but good

  • The Resting Wave section of Tonkin Liu’s Dover promenade.
    Opinion

    Sea here

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    We were glad to see that BD likes Tonkin Liu’s wonderful new promenade for Dover (News November 5), which was part funded by Cabe’s Sea Change programme

  • Opinion

    Public interest

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    While we keep banging on about the protection of title, it does not appear to be of much interest to the greater community

  • What a pickle we’re in now
    Opinion

    What a pickle we’re in now

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Your report and leader (November 5) on the state of emerging planning legislation make for disturbing reading

  • Opinion

    Back to basics

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Interesting letters last week: one all about protection of title, and how non-architects shouldn’t (can’t?) do what architects do, and muttering about the seven years of training; then one listing lots of the things that apparently now we don’t do – on top, of course, of all the things the ...

  • The Austin Montego: with style to boot.
    Opinion

    Driving force

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey is right (October 29): Cabe’s contribution to procuring buildings of real merit has, at best, been opaque, and surely hardly justifies the huge resource invested in that quango at public expense

  • Stop forcing me
    Opinion

    Stop forcing me

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Mike Matthews (Letters October 29) makes some lucid points with respect to the legal protection of title and I agree that a completely new approach to this is overdue. But what should that entail?

  • Opinion

    Legal recourse

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Mike Matthews (Letters October 29) is right when he says that the Arb offers no effective protection of title. The trivial fines it imposes are no disincentive to the wide abuse of variations on the title architect

  • Opinion

    Timely warning

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Three letters last week (Gibbs-Kennet, Matthews and Smith) separately stated good reasons for registration to be reckoned unsatisfactory from the point of view of students on the way to qualifying.

  • Let’s keep Cabe and let Arb go
    Opinion

    Let’s keep Cabe and let Arb go

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    What a triumph! As you report (News October 22), the architectural profession is to lose a useful organisation, Cabe, and keep a useless one, Arb. But I have a suggestion

  • Opinion

    Ticking the boxes

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Bill Dunster wonders why everyone isn’t rallying behind the “world-beating” level 6 Code for Sustainable Homes (Debate October 15). Perhaps not everyone is quite so convinced

  • Ill conceived? Chapman Taylor’s Liverpool Docks plan.
    Opinion

    The wider impact

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Your leader of October 1 (“Fixing the regeneration game”) and news story of October 8 (“£5.5 billion plan for Liverpool Docks in for planning”) are connected

  • Opinion

    No opportunity

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    Ruth Reed claims (News October 22) that rationalising the regulation and registration of the profession (by giving it to the RIBA?) would “provide maximum clarity and economy for consumers and the profession”

  • Opinion

    Protection racket

    2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

    I note that the RIBA is not lobbying for abolition of protection of title. It should be, as protection of title is virtually useless

  • Opinion

    End of the five-year course?

    2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Schosa may well be right in thinking that the cost of tuition fees may become a more significant factor as students decide whether it is worth joining the architecture profession (News, October 15).

  • Opinion

    Ireland in crisis

    2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Who told Angela Brady that 16% of Irish architects are out of work? (News analysis October 15)

  • Opinion

    Don't talk it down

    2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

    I was interested, and somewhat depressed, to read Jonathan Glancey’s thoughts on the legacy of the Olympic Park (October 15)