All Letters to the editor articles – Page 8

  • RIBA president Angela Brady
    Opinion

    Brady got it right over zero fees

    2013-03-28T00:30:00Z

    Angela Brady got it right! (“ Sanctuary does U-turn on zero fees ” News March 22).

  • Owen Luder
    Opinion

    We need to teach business acumen

    2013-03-28T00:30:00Z

    It is good to hear a voice of reason and rational thought over whether architecture schools should cut student numbers ( Debate March 15 ), in the form of Owen Luder’s viewpoint.

  • Phil Coffey, founder of Coffey Architects
    Opinion

    YAYA ought to stay British

    2013-03-22T00:20:00Z

    BD should have stopped and thought before opening up YAYA, a British prize, to all (other) Europeans ( News March 15 ).

  • BD Heart IanWhadcock ready
    Opinion

    Beware of the office romance

    2013-03-22T00:20:00Z

    Hilarious! I love the idea that someone would write to BD for professional office romance advice ( Dear Matthew March 8 ) Aren’t there columns that deal with this kind of thing in GQ or Nuts?

  • Moira Gemmill
    Opinion

    More and better competitions

    2013-03-22T00:20:00Z

    Moira Gemmill and Malcolm Reading are absolutely correct ( News March 15 ). It’s not that there should be fewer competitions — there should be many more.

  • Feilden Clegg Bradley, University of Ulster
    Opinion

    FCB is blocking out north Belfast

    2013-03-22T00:20:00Z

    The new University of Ulster proposals may be celebrated as Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ largest project to date ( News March 15 ). However, are the original partners fully aware of what the FCB “B team” in Belfast is planning?

  • Wouter Vanstiphout
    Opinion

    Architects must focus on process

    2013-03-22T00:20:00Z

    I experienced a heady blend of nostalgia and optimism reading Wouter Vanstiphout’s column ( Opinion March 15 ). For a moment, I felt as if everything is going to be OK. But is it really?

  • Dutch ministries by Hans Kollhoff
    Opinion

    Kollhoff shows power of brick

    2013-03-15T00:52:00Z

    After discovering his captivating Potsdamer Platz 1 in Berlin, which actually uses the same brick as Fritz Höger’s Chilehaus did 70 years earlier, I’m delighted to see Hans Kollhoff continue to prove that the contemporary urban tower can be comfortably clad in something other than glass ( Buildings March 8 ...

  • Architype's Passivhaus church in Sheffield
    Opinion

    Passivhaus can be flexible too

    2013-03-15T00:48:00Z

    Roland Karthaus ( Letters March 1 ) makes some very good points on redefining sustainability. However, I think he misses the point when claiming “The Passivhaus debate is relevant here: super-sealed buildings don’t sit well with flexibility.”

  • Aecom's designs for flat-pack developer Rational House
    Opinion

    Time to rewrite affordability

    2013-03-15T00:43:00Z

    I have long been concerned about the use of the word “affordable” in relation to housing but never more so than in last week’s BD.

  • Southbank Centre by Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios
    Opinion

    Southbank plan lacks conviction

    2013-03-15T00:39:00Z

    The lack of ambition in both brief and design of the artfully sketchy proposal for massively increasing the Southbank Centre’s accommodation is shocking ( News March 8 ) .

  • Are you sure about that?
    Opinion

    Don't confuse Schumann name

    2013-03-15T00:15:00Z

    With regard to your article concerning the scrapping of an alliance between NBS and the Aecom specification team ( News March 8 )

  • Communities secretary Eric Pickles
    Opinion

    Regs are not for manufacturers

    2013-03-08T00:31:00Z

    Aren’t building regulations meant to be for the benefit of building users? (“ Pickles under pressure over building reg delays ” bdonline February 25).

  • Portland Place
    Opinion

    Non-designers don't understand

    2013-03-08T00:31:00Z

    I would question whether non-designers, not designers, have too much influence ( Debate March 1 ).

  • Shoreditch Village by Ellis Miller
    Opinion

    City streets need a rich mixture

    2013-03-08T00:31:00Z

    With regard to your recent editorial concerning the relaxation of planning for offices-to-residential ( Leader March 1 ), I am neither an architect nor town planner and as such I have, perhaps, the advantage when it comes to seeing the “wood” rather than individual “trees”.

  • AHMM's Cultural Centre in Willesden Green
    Opinion

    Cultural centre feels the squeeze

    2013-03-08T00:31:00Z

    AHMM’s Willesden Green library and cultural centre ( News March 1 ) has been squeezed onto a small footprint in order to release as much space as possible for the private flats being built.

  • 4466’s Gloucester Street, Christchurch
    Opinion

    Don't build boxes in Christchurch

    2013-03-08T00:31:00Z

    I was born in Christchurch and was trained there as an architect then went to study in Auckland.

  • Wimbledon Parkside
    Opinion

    Rogers' house is too adaptable

    2013-03-08T00:31:00Z

    I don’t disagree with the decision to list Richard Rogers’ parents’ house ( News March 1 )

  • Gilian Darley
    Opinion

    Time to redefine sustainability

    2013-03-01T00:13:00Z

    At last, a piece worth reading about sustainability.

  • AHMM's UCL proposal
    Opinion

    Refurb has lost quiet dignity

    2013-03-01T00:13:00Z

    AHMM’s Hampstead Road refurb looks like a transition from the sublime to the ridiculous ( News February 22 ).