More Comment – Page 186

  • Opinion

    Anson and the SAC

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Much as I admired Brian Anson your account of his role in setting up the Schools of Architecture Council (SAC) is a bit misleading (News November 27)

  • Part of Hadid’s design for Taoiseach’s residence.
    Opinion

    Advantage Hadid

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Are there no bounds to the talent and ingenuity of this woman?

  • Opinion

    Hole in the wall

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey’s November 6 article contains contradictory arguments. Opening with the Berlin Wall, as tempting as it is due to the recent anniversary, doesn’t work

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    04 December 2009

  • Opinion

    When the mighty fall, we must rise

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    There’s no use fretting over stalled schemes. It just takes lateral thinking to unearth the opportunities

  • Studio MGM's Bury St Edmunds timber-build housing scheme
    Opinion

    Should large-scale timber construction be banned?

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Sam Webb, because of the disproportionate damage they cause when they catch fire; while Meredith Bowles argues that we just need to design against its shortcomings

  • Parry: impenetrable.
    Opinion

    One in, one out at Foster & Partners

    2009-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Good news this week from the mighty Fosters, which is hiring “ambitious and talented” architects and trainees

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    No easy route to cutting CO2

    2009-11-27T00:26:00Z

    The belief that the construction industry can bring about a 50% cut in CO2 emissions could lead to dangerous complacency

  • Opinion

    Rome wasn’t built in a day

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    Ellis Woodman’s article on Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi building in Rome (Works November 20) applies conventional critical analysis to unconventional contexts

  • Opinion

    Carbuncle too?

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    At first glance, the new National Museum in Rome looks just like the ferry terminal in Liverpool which won this year’s Carbuncle Cup (Features August 28)

  • Opinion

    Who will gallop to the rescue?

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    We need an army of local experts, not a few design champions

  • Opinion

    Ask an architect

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    While Stuart Lipton, John Sorrell, Paul Finch and Nicholas Serota are all fine people and by and large know something about good architecture, they do represent government’s reluctance in England to put architects in the top adviser jobs (News November 20)

  • Opinion

    New faces

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    Will Hurst reports that I am “replacing” Richard Rogers on the mayor’s advisory panel (News November 20), but everyone knows that Richard is “sans pareil”

  • Opinion

    Off the scale

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    I am surprised that the RIBA’s decision to abandon fee scale graphs (News October 30) has not been more roundly welcomed

  • Opinion

    The simple life

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    Simple, workable and delightful buildings no longer exist, replaced with buildings that are far too clever for their own good

  • Opinion

    Capital qualities

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    Cardiff is not a capital “of some sort” (Urban Trawl November 6) it is the capital of Wales.

  • Hertzberger and Worthington.
    Opinion

    Photo call

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    Who’s that next to Herman Hertzberger (Archive, November 20)? Is it the ever-youthful John Worthington, or just a lookalike?

  • Opinion

    We can’t design buildings on our own

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    Unless we can develop a sense of common purpose all collaboration is doomed to fail

  • Should architects have resigned from what became sink estates?
    Opinion

    Should architects resign from bad projects?

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Peter Barber, we have responsibilities beyond our paymasters; while Mary Duggan counters that persevering is more of a statement than resigning

  • James: raised £13,000.
    Opinion

    Papal rebuke

    2009-11-27T00:00:00Z

    What did the architect say to the Pope? Hopefully something as cerebral as the Pope said to the architects in his audience on Saturday, which included Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid.