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  • Ellis Woodman
    Opinion

    Rich raises question of trust

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    A debate on the wisdom of axing the RIBA Trust would provide a welcome focus on the institute eroding cultural activities

  • Opinion

    Plutocrats or squatters? Your choice

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Two towers in different cities give architects a glimpse of the future.

  • The RIBA Trust was behind Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture exhibition, which opened in Liverpool in 2008.
    Opinion

    Is the RIBA imperiling its cultural offering?

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    It risks being subsumed by the RIBA’s business interests, argues George Ferguson; while Ruth Reed says the change will just simplify the existing structures.

  • The Public: room at the top.
    Opinion

    Chinese tower is the height of flattery

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Last week the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, enjoyed its first birthday.

  • Design Panel in Lewes
    Opinion

    Redesigning the review process

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    In the past a “design review” typically meant that a panel of professionals from fields such as architecture, planning, landscape design, and development would scrutinise a proposal, and then advise the local authority or developer on how it might be improved.

  • Opinion

    Staying on track

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw’s proposed high-speed rail connection between Birmingham and Manchester (News January 7) is not going to be very attractive for passengers if the line is mostly in cuttings or tunnels.

  • Farrells’ rejected scheme for  Limeharbour.
    Opinion

    Towers of Babel

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    With regard to Tower Hamlets Council’s refusal to grant planning permission to the Limeharbour development (“Council blasts Limeharbour plans” News January 7), one can agree with the arguments of lack of 106 agreement and possibly affordable housing volume.

  • Liam O’Connor’s design for the Bomber Command memorial
    Opinion

    A fitting tribute?

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    The design of the £5 million memorial to Bomber Command with its irrelevant and inappropriate 85m-long classical colonnade, more suited to Berlin in the thirties, along the South side of Piccadilly, was granted planning permission against the recommendations of the City of Westminster’s own planning officers.

  • Opinion

    Join the protest

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    For 12 months, I and the Friends of The Green Park and other intelligent and caring souls have tried to convince the authorities and Bomber Command Association to withdraw from causing irreparable harm to Green Park.

  • Ellis Woodman - editor
    Opinion

    Time to take a wider view

    2011-01-07T00:00:00Z

    BD’s expanded coverage of overseas news reflects a changing market for architects

  • Opinion

    Riba needs to reach out to the public

    2011-01-07T00:00:00Z

    The demise of the Riba Trust risks ruling the institute out of crucial public debate.

  • Matthew Wood: grand designs.
    Opinion

    Castles in the air

    2011-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Castles in the air

  • Riba could usurp Cabe
    Opinion

    Talk to people who know

    2011-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Oddly, the two bids for the design review (“Riba could usurp Cabe in bid to run design reviews” 17 December 2010) are both from national bodies claiming to be capable of acting locally.

  • Opinion

    Begging to differ

    2011-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Ruth Reed was mistaken to claim that Cabe has not been involved with villages or small urban areas.

  • Opinion

    Rhubarb listing

    2011-01-06T15:52:00Z

    There are very few true brickwork forcing sheds left now in the “rhubarb triangle”, and even fewer timber ones, but the brick ones can be seen sometimes in passing.

  • Rhubarb sheds: the bitter truth.
    Opinion

    Steeling thunder

    2011-01-06T15:48:00Z

    How interesting that John Thorp (Review 2010 December 17) acknowledges the rhubarb shed, where form follows function, as a piece of vernacular architecture.

  • Opinion

    Staying on track

    2011-01-06T15:45:00Z

    Your final issue for 2010 leaves the impression that some architectural luminaries’ judgments are going a bit astray in two areas.

  • Opinion

    Local specifics

    2011-01-06T15:41:00Z

    I was asked for comment on the localism bill (“Should We Be Wary of People Power”, December 17) but I didn’t realise it would run under the tag line “Good for architecture?”

  • Will the “double-dip” dim the light at the end of the tunnel?
    Opinion

    Is 2011 going to be the year of recovery for architects?

    2011-01-06T13:36:00Z

    Yes, says Lindsay Urquhart, there are increasing UK opportunities for experienced delivery architects; but Brian Waters fears the construction industry may be in for a double dip.

  • Opinion

    Amid all the drama, there’s a tragedy

    2010-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Cardiff’s course pioneered the idea of ’interior architecture’. Now it’s closing