All Letters to the editor articles – Page 92
-
Opinion
Modern horrors
Can you explain why so many “modern” buildings look like household appliances or even the packaging they come in?
-
Opinion
Public interest
“Most people going to architectural events are architects” says Fred Manson of Open House (News April 13).
-
Opinion
Arbs legal advice
I echo Paul Hyett’s comments regarding Arb’s appalling performance based upon incompetent and inaccurate legal advice (Letters March 23).
-
OpinionAppraisals work
It is inspiring to read about those who have recognised the crucial link between the “two-way street” of staff appraisals and practices developing as happy, learning and continuously improving organisations. (Practice March 16).
-
OpinionBBC needs to reinstate design
Your front page article and leader on Cabe’s accusation of dumbing down the final phase of the BBC redevelopment (March 30) highlights the fact that for many multiheaded corporate clients, “architecture” is at most skin-deep, one reason why the trend to meaning-lessly shaped “iconic” buildings is the fashion.
-
Opinion
Small is beautiful
I read with interest your March 23 front page where the ODA’s Jerome Frost and Ricky Burdett are quoted as expressing concern that the procurement of designs for venues for the 2012 games will be a “mad rush”.
-
Opinion
Customer service
Since I became a member of the RIBA in the 1970s, I have been hearing the same call for the institute to “promote” architects more. And I have seen the esteem in which architects are held and the power they have steadily decline.
-
FeaturesIs Second Life rewriting the retail experience on and off the High Street?
The writer William Gibson once said that the future has already happened, it’s just that it’s not very well distributed.
-
Opinion
All of us need a green strand
You report that the Building Research Establishment thinks architectural education is lacking in the area of sustainable design (News March 23).
-
Opinion
Boot out Arb
Perhaps the time is now right for the profession to seize back the initiative, boot out Arb and put professional indemnity insurance back on top of the agenda, reorganised in an equitable way.
-
Opinion
Put context first
Hooray for Ike Ijeh (Letters March 23) who hits the nail on the head with what should have been obvious all along — that the true starting point for any development plan or policy in London (or for that matter anywhere) is the character of the place.
-
Opinion
...this is different
The Archaeolink building (which I know well, and admire) developed by Edward Cullinan Architects and Andy Ford at Fulcrum is a version of the Rocky Mountain Research Centre passive annual heat transfer technology, which is referred to in your article.
-
OpinionWe were first...
Great article (Solutions March 23) about the work that Andy Ford and Mark Hewitt have been doing with interseasonal heat transfer.
-
Opinion
Olympic rethink
I enjoyed Sean Griffiths’ observations on Mipim 2007 (Opinion March 23); the decadence, the vulgarity, the male testosterone and the leggy blondes.
-
Opinion
Pull the other one
Come on BD! Your Solutions page (March 30) repeated an awful lot of green mumbo-jumbo when describing projects being built in the United Arab Emirates.
-
Opinion
Titles tell all
In not saying what sort of engineers have signed the lack of respect e-petition last week, Boots rather reinforces the point that they are making. Presumably they are consultants of some kind.
-
Opinion
Arb must reform
I have read the letter from Arb’s registrar and chief executive Alison Carr. It was before her time, but if she checks the number of votes gained by the architects in the Arb Reform Group she will see that they secured about 70%, including my vote — hardly “a handful ...
-
Opinion
No leg to stand on
What a shame that Alison Carr is defending Arb’s mistakes of the past instead of proactively correcting its actions for the future (Letters March 23).
-
Opinion
Local triumph
Your readers may like to know that, since I last wrote (March 23), our council has rejected the application to which I referred.