More Comment – Page 192

  • Opinion

    United we stand... and amble

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Why “inclusive placemaking” in parks is threatening to divide our communities

  • AD published Webb’s report on the Ronan Point inquiry.
    Opinion

    Urban legend

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    The very first issue that I bought of Monica Pidgeon’s AD was January 1960 on Frank Lloyd Wright

  • Opinion

    Dress the part

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    As a part II student studying for the RIBA part III examinations in order to be registered as an architect, I was shocked to find out that an EU student can gain entry to the register by simply demonstrating four years of academic qualification and two years of professional experience

  • Opinion

    Undue influence

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    As one of the candidates that stood for election for the Arb, I was pleased to see the ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (News September 11)

  • Opinion

    A holy bond

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Regarding your story on Canterbury Cathedral’s window facing collapse (News September 18), where can I buy that duct tape?

  • Opinion

    Female drought

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    A full-page advertisement for the Thames Gateway Forum (BD September 18) lists speakers at a forthcoming meeting of the Forum in November

  • HOK’s King Abdullah University needed a big practice’s resources.
    Opinion

    Are small firms better placed to weather the downturn?

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Clients prefer the personal touch of a smaller practice, says Brian Walters; while HOK’s Andrew Barraclough argues that they are too dependent on individual projects

  • Deprived: Mandelson.
    Opinion

    Notts bothered about second place

    2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

    Academics at Nottingham University are complaining that Make’s Jubilee Campus only took second place in this year’s BD Carbuncle Cup.

  • Opinion

    Small comfort in hard times

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    The recession may technically be ending but practices — particularly the larger ones — will continue to feel the pain

  • Opinion

    Joint effort to stop terrorism

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    BD’s sensationalist piece about the RIBA’s response to the Home Office on counterterrorism (News September 11) misses the whole point of a government consultation — as a good platform on which to submit recommendations and, if necessary, a challenging critique

  • Opinion

    Wrong choice

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    I much admire Ellis Woodman’s writing but he is wrong (Leader September 11) regarding my frustration over the Glasgow School of Art competition

  • Opinion

    Not just Scots

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Supporting Scottish designers? How about just supporting good designers full stop

  • Opinion

    Drawing comfort

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Reading the review of the Tricorn Centre book (Culture September 18) reminded me how whenever my retired-architect Dad and I discuss such “second-tier” brutalist megastructures where the architect’s megalomania coalesced with the developer’s (or council’s) delusions of grandeur, he damns them acerbically thus: “I’ll bet it looked fantastic on the ...

  • Opinion

    Poles apart

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Prompted by William Curtis’s article (Opinion September 4) I visited the 7/7 Memorial in Hyde Park

  • Opinion

    Manasseh memo

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    I am writing a monograph on the work of Leonard Manasseh and would be delighted if anyone with information or stories about Leonard’s life and work could contact me at tjb33@kent.ac.uk, or at the postal address below.Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Kent School of Architecture, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR

  • Opinion

    Helpless towers are being buried

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    What lies behind this Europe-wide mania for recladding post-war buildings?

  • Opinion

    Should public money be spent renovating churches?

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    Yes, they’re part of our cultural heritage, says John Bailey of the Ecclesiastical Architects & Surveyors Association, but Gordon Leney of the British Humanist Association thinks the Church should find other solutions

  • Opinion

    EH twitchy over BD’s Robin Hood Gardens campaign

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    A mere 15 months after BD requested internal English Heritage correspondence over its handling of Robin Hood Gardens, the organisation has coughed up the documents

  • Opinion

    Chicago learns to think small

    2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

    A city of heavy bones is beginning to learn the importance of the small stuff

  • Opinion

    Keeping up with Cambridge

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Before the recession hit, Cambridge was expanding at an enormous rate