More Comment – Page 191

  • Opinion

    Failing to foster

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    For institutional and regulatory reasons, and with some important exceptions, the huge creative opportunity presented by the games has not been adequately used to harness and promote young and emerging design talent.

  • Popular: Matcham’s arcade.
    Opinion

    Victim of success

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    It was sobering that the only attractive illustration in your article on the West Riding (Urban Trawl October 2) was Frank Matcham’s restored County Arcade in Leeds

  • Opinion

    Correction: 02 October 2009

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Our review of Land Architecture People (Culture September 25) described co-curator Clare Melhuish as a critic

  • Opinion

    The seductive new sound of success

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    A report on well-being should prompt us to re-examine what ‘success’ is in architecture

  • The Olympics were meant to be a springboard for small practices.
    Opinion

    Is the ODA letting down small practices on ‘legacy’?

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Andrew Bofff, it would rather take the easy option of using large firms; while the ODA’s Jerome Frost says it has tried to ensure opportunities for all sizes of practice

  • Opinion

    RMJM debt is bad publicity

    2009-10-09T00:00:00Z

    Hiring Will Alsop suggests RMJM has deep pockets so it’s surprising that its financial director Patrick Valentine has admitted it is unable to pay a number of its suppliers, including the London PR company Ing Media, to which it owes £15,000.

  • Opinion

    Don't catch the British disease

    2009-10-02T01:00:00Z

    Amanda Baillieu (Leader September 25) condemns Crossrail as a project “destined to go down as the bargain basement version of the hugely admired Jubilee Line extension”

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    This is in all our back yards

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Political parties must address the fact that nimbyism is a symptom of a failing planning system

  • Opinion

    Cross purposes

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    I disagree fundamentally with your assertion (Leader September 25) that Crossrail will not be a project the mayor will want to be remembered for and that there is a lack of architectural ambition on the project. Also the headline “Crossrail design disappoints Cabe” (News September 11) was misleading as it ...

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Birds fly in, Prescott flies out

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Small initiatives give us hope amid the relentless greenwash

  • Toh Shimazaki’s surgery.
    Opinion

    One in the eye

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Although it is fantastic to see a medical building evolving from the norm, I can’t help but think Toh Shimazaki’s eye surgery (Works September 25) looks pretty nasty as a piece

  • Opinion

    Challenge Arb

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    I share Jasmine Blood’s concern over the iniquity of the current system for registering architects, which seems to unfairly favour EU registrants at the expense of UK students (Letters September 25)

  • Opinion

    Why study here?

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    I completely agree with Jasmine Blood (Letters September 25). If EU students want to register as architects in the UK, they should go through part III as UK students do. By not doing so, Arb is not only failing to protect the public but this is also detrimental to our ...

  • Opinion

    Make sure you're not out of place

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Harvard is an unlikely setting for a drama about the fragility of belonging.

  • Brown: just no stopping.
    Opinion

    Brighton cheers RIBA suggestion

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Historian Tristan Hunt’s suggestion that the RIBA should “expel” members who consistently produce bad work was met with cheers in Brighton this week, to the consternation of RIBA president Ruth Reed

  • Would the Tories fund urgent repairs to Canterbury Cathedral?
    Opinion

    Would a Tory government be good for heritage?

    2009-10-02T00:00:00Z

    The Conservatives are keen to listen and have a commitment to historic buildings, says Catherine Croft; while Richard Coleman thinks they’ll find it hard to strike a balance between regeneration and heritage

  • Opinion

    We’ll do the math

    2009-09-25T00:19:00Z

    I wish to clarify the situation regarding the authorship of the masterplan for the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford (News analysis September 18)

  • ECD has reclad these tower blocks in Shepherd’s Bush, west London.
    Opinion

    Cladding is not just skin deep

    2009-09-25T00:16:00Z

    To answer Owen Hatherley’s rather naive question about over-cladding older residential tower blocks (Opinion September 18), most residential blocks have to be refurbished and upgraded with residents in place.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Exposing the mayor’s failings

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers’ resignation as Boris Johnson’s design adviser reflects on a mayor with little interest in architecture

  • Opinion

    Can’t we agree to compromise?

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Making design concessions can lead to more robust solutions