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  • Opinion

    Should we question green orthodoxy?

    2009-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Readers are split in their responses to last week’s leader calling for a debate on climate change

  • Opinion

    Where is the Ice Cube of architecture?

    2009-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Today the idea of an angry architecture is all but inconceivable

  • Opinion

    Is the new policy statement PPS 15 a threat to heritage?

    2009-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Yes, by assuming heritage stands in the way of economic recovery, says the RTPI’s Martin Willey; while English Heritage’s Duncan McCallum counters that it maintains protection for the historic environment

  • Opinion

    Plane Stupid’s flight of fancy

    2009-11-13T00:00:00Z

    Pressure group Plane Stupid lived up to its name at BD’s Architect of the Year Awards, after it emerged its satirical attack on Heathrow’s third runway architect had been directed at, er, the wrong firm

  • Avery Associate’s Imax for the BFI: death by a thousand cuts.
    Opinion

    Chipperfield's lucky escape

    2009-11-06T01:36:00Z

    I can empathise with David Chipperfield’s disappointment for not being asked to develop his competition-winning Film Centre design for the BFI (News October 30). My 1995 design for it, for the south side of Tate Modern, was similarly superseded

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Is global warming hot air?

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA must not be blinkered to the increasing evidence against man-made climate change

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    The writing is on the walls

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Twenty years after the Berlin wall came crashing down a new breed of barrier appears to be growing

  • Opinion

    Movie puzzler

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    A lot of things puzzle me. One is sometimes why clients change architects. Chipperfield wins a competition. Eight years later the promoters get some extra money, decide that they have to hold a fresh competition and look for another architect when they had one of proven excellence. Why?

  • Opinion

    High noon

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    I would like comment on Nigel Stutt’s term “cowboys” (Letters October 30)

  • Opinion

    Spurn this invite

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Your readers may be aware of an invitation for expressions of interest for a sustainable housing scheme in Islington. The first stage submission asks “suppliers” to provide an AO board of conceptual design ideas for the site

  • Opinion

    Wider tradition

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    If we follow Jonathan Glancey’s argument (October 30), we can’t win. If our survey on public taste in architecture compares similar things we’re superficial, but if we’d compared unlike things we’d be biased

  • Opinion

    Structural flaw

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Has any self-respecting architect ever disassociated structure and architecture?

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Formtexx’s double-curvature panels (Solutions October 30) will cost £650 per sq m, a 10th of the cost of the steel plates in Chicago’s Millennium Park rather than half the cost, as reported.

  • Ed Hollis
    Opinion

    Edinburgh: time to take off the mask

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Hiding behind a fictional heritage will leave this city stuck in the past

  • B-movie: Nimmo and Prior.
    Opinion

    John Lyall grins and bares it

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    It’s not quite The Full Monty, but the video of John Lyall on stage at his new Jerwood Dance House with various builders from Morgan Ashurst is very entertaining

  • Margaret Hodge called Queen’s Hospital a “bloody disaster”.
    Opinion

    Should ministers criticise individual buildings?

    2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Yes, criticism can lead to a dialogue that will ultimately improve public buildings, says Jaime Bishop; while Ruth Reed argues that architects shouldn’t take the flack for flawed procurement processes

  • The 2010 RIBA Client’s Guide will be out next week.
    Opinion

    Graphs belong to another era

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    I must admit I was surprised to learn that some practices still use the fee survey graph to calculate fees. Removing this from the RIBA A Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect will surely be beneficial to architects and clients alike

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Polyark is on the right road

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    The issues Cedric Price’s student project addressed in the 1970s are still important to architecture schools today

  • Opinion

    AD addendum

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    For the record, Monica Pidgeon (News: obituary September 25) didn’t publish Rem Koolhaas: that was Haig Beck in 1977, after she had left Architectural Design

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Age of margarine classicism

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    People might not have noticed the difference between margarine and butter in those old ads, but they do see the difference between traditional and modern