More Comment – Page 180

  • Opinion

    Refrain, please

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    I find myself equally affronted by both protagonists in your debate “Should architects try harder to please the public?” (February 19)

  • The vision for Oceanique tower.
    Opinion

    Can we be frank?

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield writes of the need for “sympathetic clients, open-minded planning committees and an informed public” in the context of “an atmosphere that does not encourage good design”

  • Opinion

    Essen in elegance

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield’s Essen Museum, “too safe”? (Works February 19)

  • Opinion

    Foil good factor

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Great picture of Zaha Hadid on the front page of BD (February 12).

  • Opinion

    Northern delights

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Carolyn Steel (Opinion February 5) concentrates on just one of Asplund’s works but, in my view, his greatest achievement was his woodland cemetery, for its unique attention to detail and landscapeWhen I visited Asplund’s Gothenburg Law Courts extension as a student over 60 years ago it was the wonderful interior ...

  • Opinion

    Dublin’s docklands, a melting pot of failure

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    The recession has left Dublin’s half-hearted and half-finished new buildings open to reinterpretation

  • Abbey Road Studios: not listed for architectural interest.
    Opinion

    Is the listings process guilty of being too populist?

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Heritage campaigner Robin Stummer says, yes, the UK struggles to define significance, while architecture minister Margaret Hodge argues for listing buildings with historical importance such as Abbey Road

  • Opinion

    Song and dance in Glasgow

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Those who lost out in the £10 million job to upgrade Glasgow’s Theatre Royal are grumbling about a conflict of interest because the wife of Alex Reedijk, Scottish Opera’s general director, is architect Anne Goldrick, who works for none other than the winner, Page\Park

  • Will Hurst
    Opinion

    What a difference a year makes…

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons on why “nothing poor” must be built with public money – one year ago

  • Opinion

    Modern mirage

    2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield (Letters) and Piers Gough (Debate) made a good pair in last week’s issue

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Competition not cronyism

    2010-02-25T16:55:00Z

    Britain needs more competitions and more clients like the US government, not fewer

  • Opinion

    Chipping in on the debate

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    How arrogant of me to be frustrated that the architecture correspondent of our most respected newspaper refused to comment on a project that took 11 years and was the subject of intense debate and criticism in every other European newspaper

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Potemkin would be proud

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Putting a fancy hoarding around an eyesore is no way to tackle the run-down areas of east London

  • Opinion

    Starting point

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    There has been a great deal of coverage recently on the schemes funded under the first round of Kickstart

  • Opinion

    Homes are not political pawns

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    There is no official body willing to lift us out of the Kickstart mess

  • Opinion

    Unreconstructed

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    When my beautiful Mark VII Jaguar sustained an ugly crumple to the offside wing, I took it to the garage for repairs with the express instructions that they ignore the mildly patinated and seductively curved bottle-green original coachwork but rather patch the offending area with some functional construction in angled ...

  • Opinion

    Icing on the cake

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    I was pleasantly surprised to be contacted for cake orders when my photograph appeared in BD last Friday (Letters February 12)

  • Opinion

    Do the sums

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    We must have great sympathy with Paul Dinsdale (Letters February 12) about the lack of work but when are fellow architects going to realise that in a career of 50 years there will be four or five recessions and there is nothing the RIBA can do about it

  • Opinion

    Deconstructing a visit from Eisenman

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Today’s students will make pilgrimages to see celebrities, not Santiago de Compostela

  • Scottish Parliament: “loved by architects, hated by the public.”
    Opinion

    Should architects try harder to please the public?

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Yes, because they live in a pseudo-intellectual ghetto, says Malcolm Millais; while Piers Gough says architecture is far too important to be left to the public