More Comment – Page 190

  • Arb: eating on the job.
    Opinion

    Stirling after-party aftershocks

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    A surreptitious flick of the wrist and Boots found herself with a Stirling Prize after-party ticket, which turned out to be in a Corney & Barrow basement wine bar

  • Opinion

    We all need more play time

    2009-10-23T00:00:00Z

    This government edict is indicative of the way Britain is doing its best to undermine its long-term future — and its architecture

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    End of an era for embassies

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Today’s opening of Tony Fretton’s Warsaw embassy could mark the final days of the Foreign Office as an enlightened client

  • Opinion

    Manchester guardians

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    I am sure that I won’t be the first to point out that the photograph in your article on Gateway House in Manchester (News October 9) depicts the wrong building

  • Opinion

    EU registration

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    I would like to clarify that the requirements for registration as an architect for those non-UK trained applicants who have EU rights cannot legally include the need to secure a part III qualification in professional practice in the UK (Letters October 9)

  • Opinion

    Time to return to the grass roots

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    A new form of “Civic Trust” is needed to get local projects the recognition they deserve

  • Opinion

    Structural fault

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Your correspondent Liam Kellehar (Letters October 9) tells us that Spanish architectural courses have a structural engineering requirement, with the capacity to design steel and reinforced concrete structures, something that should be incorporated in England

  • Opinion

    Accordia discord

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    The review of Dwelling: Accordia about the Stirling prizewinner (Culture September 4) seems to talk mainly about what the book doesn’t cover

  • Cerebral: Nord’s sub-station.
    Opinion

    Utility integrity

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    When was the last time a sub-station attained this level of design —or press, or debate? (Works October 9)

  • Opinion

    Gender solutions

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Re: “Reed vows to fight for students and women” (News October 9), I am a female architect who has stuck it out for over 25 years, and at times it has been very unpleasant; my lovelife was even pried into at one job interview

  • Opinion

    Keep reading BD

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Postal strikes are affecting deliveries of BD, particularly for practices in London

  • Opinion

    Slow train to our lumpen fantasy past

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Despite renewed interest in their radical edge, our suburbs stand for the failure of idealism

  • Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension is threatened by a funding shortfall at the DCMS, which was to provide £50 million.
    Opinion

    Can the profession survive public spending cuts in its current form?

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    No says Barry Munday, after the election we will be into a very different landscape; while Levitt Bernstein’s Matthew Goulcher says new funding streams will lead to a focus on high quality products

  • Opinion

    Deputies agree to differ over sisters

    2009-10-16T00:00:00Z

    Boots would like to have been a fly on the wall in the Milton Davis household last week when news broke that Allies & Morrison’s Three Sisters scheme had been knocked back by the government

  • Opinion

    Better training, better decisions

    2009-10-09T00:37:00Z

    It may well be that many councillors who sit on planning committees have no prior knowledge or training in any aspect of the built environment and are ill equipped to pass judgment on schemes that come before them

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    The bonfire of the vanities

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Birmingham’s new library could mark the start of an era in which vital public services take precedent over showiness

  • Opinion

    Alsop sadness

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    You know you’ve hit rock bottom when your best option is to become part of the “world domination” team of RMJM (News October 2)

  • Opinion

    A tough profession to crack

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    So many architects’ lives seem to have been cut dramatically short in often ignominious circumstances

  • Opinion

    CPD rules Europe

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Paula Mendez (Letters October 2) is wrong to state that qualifying in Spain takes less time than in England.

  • How the arch might look.
    Opinion

    Arched feat

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Your coverage of the plan to rebuild the Euston Arch omits a key fact: the new arch is proposed in the wrong place (it was never in Euston Square but a couple of blocks to the north)