More Comment – Page 159

  • Opinion

    Bad science

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    It is interesting that David Kohn praises Camden’s public housing of the sixties and seventies for being experimental (Culture November 5)

  • Opinion

    Pub architects

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Last year I questioned the powers of protection of the word “architect”

  • Opinion

    Public interest

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    While we keep banging on about the protection of title, it does not appear to be of much interest to the greater community

  • The Resting Wave section of Tonkin Liu’s Dover promenade.
    Opinion

    Sea here

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    We were glad to see that BD likes Tonkin Liu’s wonderful new promenade for Dover (News November 5), which was part funded by Cabe’s Sea Change programme

  • Opinion

    Good riddance

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    The government’s curtailment of the Thames Gateway is not only necessary, but good

  • Opinion

    Weighing up the housing benefits

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Council housing is the forgotten alternative to a system that subsidises rich landlords.

  • The deal aims to make existing homes as efficient as the most eco-friendly new builds. Pictured: Bere Architects’ Larch House.
    Opinion

    Will the Green Deal mean much work for architects?

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Architects will be able to incorporate the deal into their services, says Andrew Mellor, but Brian Berry believes it is builders who will benefit

  • Morrison: salute him.
    Opinion

    Make’s ‘diamonds’ of Birmingham

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Make’s Carbuncle Cup-nominated Cube building in Birmingham just got even classier. 39-year-old graffiti artist Temper (or, as his mother knows him, Aaron Bird) has created a £250,000 installation for the foyer featuring bronze figures of inspirational people including a firefighter, Holocaust survivor and counsellor.Temper was struck by Make supremo Ken ...

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Fruit juice of human kindness

    2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Speak to any developer or product manufacturer and you would think we live in a green utopia

  • Ellis Woodman - editor
    Opinion

    Lessons from 60s Camden

    2010-11-05T10:00:00Z

    An exhibition on council homes in the sixties demonstrates how current procurement processes hamper good quality social housing

  • Stop forcing me
    Opinion

    Stop forcing me

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Mike Matthews (Letters October 29) makes some lucid points with respect to the legal protection of title and I agree that a completely new approach to this is overdue. But what should that entail?

  • Opinion

    Legal recourse

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Mike Matthews (Letters October 29) is right when he says that the Arb offers no effective protection of title. The trivial fines it imposes are no disincentive to the wide abuse of variations on the title architect

  • Opinion

    Timely warning

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Three letters last week (Gibbs-Kennet, Matthews and Smith) separately stated good reasons for registration to be reckoned unsatisfactory from the point of view of students on the way to qualifying.

  • Opinion

    Back to basics

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Interesting letters last week: one all about protection of title, and how non-architects shouldn’t (can’t?) do what architects do, and muttering about the seven years of training; then one listing lots of the things that apparently now we don’t do – on top, of course, of all the things the ...

  • The Austin Montego: with style to boot.
    Opinion

    Driving force

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey is right (October 29): Cabe’s contribution to procuring buildings of real merit has, at best, been opaque, and surely hardly justifies the huge resource invested in that quango at public expense

  • Dot to dot results: 29 October 2010
    Opinion

    Dot to dot results: 29 October 2010

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s winner was Maria Hellman of London W3, who identified the Beth Sholom Synagogue by Frank Lloyd Wright at Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

  • Opinion

    On the politics of beauty

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    If Victorian architects had had to contend with the current generation of design watchdogs, many of our most striking buildings would not have got off the drawing board

  • Opinion

    Design quangos’ famous last words

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Big Society rhetoric seems to be finding its mark as the spending review cuts take hold.

  • Thames Gateway: can an “insubstantial dream with a preposterous name” still transform the area?
    Opinion

    Is the dream of the Thames Gateway dead?

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Mark Brearley, we must now fight to salvage what we can; but Terry Farrell sees great potential in what’s already been achieved

  • 100 11th Avenue: offputting.
    Opinion

    Nouvel’s lobby proves hard to live with

    2010-11-05T00:00:00Z

    With last week’s opening of One New Change, Jean Nouvel may not want for admirers in London, but in New York he is proving a rather harder sell