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  • Carolyn Steel
    Opinion

    We need to design in four dimensions

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    The Copenhagen summit is over after two weeks but buildings last for centuries

  • Kentish Town Health Centre shows how consultation can succeed.
    Opinion

    Does too much consultation inhibit great architecture?

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Yes, tough decisions can be necessary, says Alex Lifschutz; while Anna Minton argues that democracy means the people affected must have a say

  • Libeskind with a fan at the RIBA.
    Opinion

    Venice dilemma

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Word reaches Boots that the director of next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is soon to be appointed. This time round the biennale authorities have set themselves a triple challenge: they are looking for an architect of international standing who also happens to be a woman and also a non-European

  • The proposed extension.
    Opinion

    Correction

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s news item on Project Orange’s forthcoming extension to the Moran Hotel in Chiswick was unfortunately accompanied by an image of the existing building.

  • Opinion

    Still badly paid

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA needs to be doing more to get a standard fee level agreed between architectural practices. This process should not involve clients at all

  • Opinion

    Solid structures

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Not only was structural engineering (Letters October 16) part of the AA’s syllabus in the 1940s and 1950s, back in the 1960s (and of course before and after that golden age) it comprised an important part of the architecture syllabus at Edinburgh College of Art

  • Opinion

    Goodbye to Berlin

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    “Welcome to Germany”... “Berlin Boost” (Letters October 23) — the navel-gazers put one in mind of the incomparable Mort Sahl, when contemplating the build quality of the VW Beetle: “How did they lose?”

  • Opinion

    Some key points

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    Your report on designs for the new Tottenham Court Road station (News October 16) calls it “the first of three key interchange stations in the Crossrail project”. Three?

  • Opinion

    Being there: Haig Beck remembers Monica Pidgeon and his time at the AD

    2009-10-30T00:00:00Z

    I must have been the only likely person left in London that weekend in 1975 when Monica Pidgeon rang offering me a position as associate editor of Architectural Design.

  • David Chipperfield’s transformed Neues Museum in Berlin opened this week.
    Opinion

    Welcome to Germany

    2009-10-23T00:45:00Z

    I recently attended a splendid dinner in Berlin to celebrate the completion of David Chipperfield’s renovation of the Neues Museum.

  • Opinion

    Berlin boost

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    I was passing through Berlin last week with three hours to spare and walked over to see the Neues Museum.

  • Opinion

    FO credentials

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Your piece “Foreign Office U-turn over embassy costs” (News October 16) does not ring true in our experience

  • Opinion

    Alive and well

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Please apprise Jonathan Glancey (October 16) of the fact that Civic Trust Awards are still going ahead and that there are a lot more this year

  • Opinion

    Biting back

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    In Andrew Mead’s rather sour review of my new book, The Freedoms of Suburbia (Culture October 2), he seems to be still brooding — 40 years on — about the anarcho-libertarian Non-Plan special issue of New Society magazine, which I wrote with Reyner Banham, Peter Hall and Cedric Price in ...

  • Opinion

    Food for thought

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Having just returned from the Rotterdam Biennale, I can’t help but feel Oliver Wainwright’s write-up was a little harsh (Culture October 9)

  • Opinion

    Cockerell & bull

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    In the final episode of Kevin McCloud’s Grand Tour, earlier this month on Channel 4, I was distressed to hear McCloud attribute the design of St George’s Hall, in Liverpool, to Charles R Cockerell

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Counting the cost of Stirling

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Is the UK’s top architecture prize now merely rewarding buildings with generous budgets?

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    October 16 2009

  • Opinion

    Bright new talent from tough times

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    The downturn is shaking up the natural order to architecture’s benefit

  • More pioneering architecture was being celebrated when Herzog & de Meuron’s Laban Centre won the Stirling in 2003.
    Opinion

    Fourteen years on, has the Stirling Prize lost its sparkle?

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    Jay Merrick of the Independent argues the prize needs to be a catalyst for change, while Hugh Pearman says we should be proud of this popular annual award