All Letters to the editor articles – Page 51

  • Opinion

    Female drought

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    A full-page advertisement for the Thames Gateway Forum (BD September 18) lists speakers at a forthcoming meeting of the Forum in November

  • Opinion

    Undue influence

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    As one of the candidates that stood for election for the Arb, I was pleased to see the ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (News September 11)

  • AD published Webb’s report on the Ronan Point inquiry.
    Opinion

    Urban legend

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    The very first issue that I bought of Monica Pidgeon’s AD was January 1960 on Frank Lloyd Wright

  • Opinion

    Poles apart

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Prompted by William Curtis’s article (Opinion September 4) I visited the 7/7 Memorial in Hyde Park

  • Opinion

    Wrong choice

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    I much admire Ellis Woodman’s writing but he is wrong (Leader September 11) regarding my frustration over the Glasgow School of Art competition

  • Opinion

    Drawing comfort

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Reading the review of the Tricorn Centre book (Culture September 18) reminded me how whenever my retired-architect Dad and I discuss such “second-tier” brutalist megastructures where the architect’s megalomania coalesced with the developer’s (or council’s) delusions of grandeur, he damns them acerbically thus: “I’ll bet it looked fantastic on the ...

  • Opinion

    Joint effort to stop terrorism

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    BD’s sensationalist piece about the RIBA’s response to the Home Office on counterterrorism (News September 11) misses the whole point of a government consultation — as a good platform on which to submit recommendations and, if necessary, a challenging critique

  • Opinion

    Not just Scots

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Supporting Scottish designers? How about just supporting good designers full stop

  • Opinion

    Manasseh memo

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    I am writing a monograph on the work of Leonard Manasseh and would be delighted if anyone with information or stories about Leonard’s life and work could contact me at tjb33@kent.ac.uk, or at the postal address below.Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Kent School of Architecture, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR

  • Opinion

    Hidden agenda

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Architecture can be quite annoying. Is the taste of the designer, the lack of knowledge of the developer or the government liable for schemes such as Rafael Viñoly’s revised Battersea Power Station scheme (News September 4)?

  • Opinion

    Beyond vodka

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Your feature “Is there life after architecture?” (News analysis August 28) is really helpful, but we can’t all become fashion designers or invent a new type of vodka

  • Opinion

    Keeping up with Cambridge

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Before the recession hit, Cambridge was expanding at an enormous rate

  • Opinion

    Fees failure

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    In his article (Opinion August 28) Paul Morrell applauds the virtues of the RIBA Plan of Work. I fully endorse his comments but would add a caveat

  • Opinion

    Fighting talk

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers is confused

  • Opinion

    Fretton focus

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    I don’t see why being a Frettonite should inhibit your appreciation of other people’s buildings (“RIBA denies claims of Stirling favouritism”, August 28)

  • Opinion

    Stirling rethink

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    How about introducing more categories to the Stirling Prize — best individual house, best education building, best conservation project?

  • Opinion

    Tuned in

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    It was good to see Powell & Moya’s Cripps Building (Solutions September 4)

  • Opinion

    Big guns out

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Your leader and Peter Murray’s letter on Chelsea Barracks (August 14) have their facts wrong. Many of the facts can be found in our letter of July 17

  • Opinion

    Carbuncle bungle

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    There can be no argument that contemporary architecture in Aberdeen — one of the UK’s wealthiest cities — is irredeemably awful

  • Opinion

    A Poultry effort

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Should you ever consider instating such a thing as a Carbuncle Lifetime Achievement Award, I’d like to nominate the pink and off-white monstrosity Peter Palumbo erected in place of the Mappin & Webb Building at 1 Poultry.Chris Gregory via bdonline