More Comment – Page 178

  • Opinion

    Marriage value

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Katie Wilmot (Letters March 12) should relax. Architecture is being served by the use of 66 Portland Place for weddings and other non-RIBA functions

  • Opinion

    Living proof

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    What a shame that Austin Williams (Debate March 5) uses environmental awareness as a negative point in the future of the architectural profession

  • Teletubby play humps: Patel Taylor’s Children’s Centre.
    Opinion

    Men of vision

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    It is with great sadness that I read last week about the deaths of two of architecture’s greatest minds: Bruce Graham and Raimund Abraham (News March 12)

  • Opinion

    Getting the hump

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s BD featured a large photograph of a Children’s Centre in Barnes (Works March 12)

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    A review of Farshid Moussavi’s book The Function of Form (Culture March 5) incorrectly described Moussavi as a former partner in Foreign Office Architects

  • Opinion

    Cushion-plumpers will inherit the earth

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Those flexible, responsive designers of the future? They’re already here

  • Is working for pennies really worth it to get a foot in the door?
    Opinion

    Would you work for less than the minimum wage?

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    No, architects must take a united stand, says Alison Coutinho; while Emma Perry thinks sometimes it’s necessary to get a foot in the door

  • Chips: double portion.
    Opinion

    Up in the air over Alsop

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Momentary panic at the RIBA Awards office when it received two entries for Chips, the Manchester apartments designed by Will Alsop

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Filling the gaps in our cities

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    All around the country sites are standing empty. Now it’s time for developers to step up and find alternative uses for their land

  • Opinion

    Let’s draw a veil over this idea

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Much like Jonathan Glancey (March 5) I was shocked when made aware of the proposals to partly transform the RIBA into a “wedding venue” (News February 26)

  • Not hiding but enhancing.
    Opinion

    Shoal patch

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    I would like to clarify that the Shoal at Stratford (News February 19) is not intended to hide the Stratford Centre but — together with the less talked about public realm improvements across the wider town centre — to set a confident tone for the current and dynamic regeneration of ...

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    The profession has divided us

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    There are still places where architecture is a communal experience

  • Opinion

    Object lessons

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Re “Cabe told assessors to destroy scores” (News February 26), I have experienced a similar practice of being required to return sheets with scores and notes at meetings called to consider submissions for public art projects

  • Opinion

    Classic error

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    In case BD readers think I have gone mad, I most certainly did not write “Paternoster Square never goes away, it has the longest pedigree of all the styles” in your 40th anniversary celebration

  • Opinion

    No to Battersea

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Your story “Cabe backing fuels Viñoly Battersea application” (News March 26) quotes Cabe director of design Diane Haigh saying: “we have reviewed [the proposals] six times… this has resulted in a strong scheme which Cabe is confident will be a success”!

  • Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre.
    Opinion

    No entrance?

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    With reference to your article on Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne (Works March 5), the bottom left photograph on page 28 is subtitled “A freestanding canopy marks the entrance at the centre of the plan”

  • Opinion

    Out of the picture

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    As an archivist I find you bring a very salutary element of architectural reality into a very large architectural archive where “modern” mainly refers to the 1930s-1960s

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Alan Short (“Glass buildings are set to become pariahs” News March 5) is professor of architecture at Cambridge University, not head of architecture as stated.

  • Ken Livingstone
    Opinion

    We can cut emissions by 60% by 2030

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Architects and builders can help bring about major change in London’s energy use

  • Just talk it through.
    Opinion

    Just can’t stop — Pringles and the aquatics centre

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Word reaches Boots that people living near the Olympic Park are divided over the nickname for Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre