More Comment – Page 153

  • Prince Charles at the RIBA Annual Lecture in 2009.
    Opinion

    Prince in context

    2011-02-11T00:00:00Z

    The Prince of Wales’s reputation in some quarters as an opinionated supporter of classicist architecture certainly doesn’t reflect his whole view of people and places

  • Opinion

    People's choice

    2011-02-11T00:00:00Z

    The most sensible policy regarding the future of Cabe …

  • Tacheles
    Opinion

    Berlin's walls

    2011-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Happily Berlin’s alternative ways of doing things do not depend on the survival of Tacheles

  • 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

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    Opinion

    Get the best from the 3D explosion

    2011-02-07T07:58:00Z

    The building information model (bim) strategy of using a virtual 3D model to coordinate the design process and generate 2D drawings and schedules has obvious attractions

  • Ellis Woodman HP
    Opinion

    Gove cannot go it alone

    2011-02-04T08:18:00Z

    The government announced last week that Building Schools for the Future is to be replaced by a programme within which all projects will be based on one of six standardised templates.

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Initiatives need solid foundations too

    2011-02-04T08:11:00Z

    Stop-start policy-making can never make for good architecture

  • 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

    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

    History lessons

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

  • 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

  • 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

    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

    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

    Dot con

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

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

  • Standardised school
    Opinion

    Should standardisation be the future of school design?

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Andrew Geldard, now is our chance to make a virtue of necessity; but Sean Griffiths is contemplating a Jamie Oliver-style campaign against processed schools

  • Andrew Luck
    Opinion

    Architecture student won’t play ball

    2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Boots tips her cap to any youngster passionate enough to embark on a course of architectural training

  • Ellis Woodman - editor
    Opinion

    Housebuilding’s catch-22

    2011-01-28T09:57:00Z

    In order to cut building costs, the industry needs to spend on technical innovation

  • Fran Tonkiss
    Opinion

    What is the problem with the prince?

    2011-01-28T09:51:00Z

    Prince Charles’s environmental aims are those you’d want in a developer. So what is it that rankles?

  • 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