More Comment – Page 193

  • Ellis Woodman
    Opinion

    Search for the Scottish spirit

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Scottish architects can’t bemoan being overlooked in their homeland if they don’t offer anything distinct

  • Opinion

    Fighting talk

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers is confused

  • Opinion

    But we don’t do violence

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    It is intriguing to see how passionate St Petersburg’s residents are over the Gazprom tower proposals

  • Opinion

    Tuned in

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    It was good to see Powell & Moya’s Cripps Building (Solutions September 4)

  • Opinion

    Fees failure

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    In his article (Opinion August 28) Paul Morrell applauds the virtues of the RIBA Plan of Work. I fully endorse his comments but would add a caveat

  • Opinion

    Hidden agenda

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Architecture can be quite annoying. Is the taste of the designer, the lack of knowledge of the developer or the government liable for schemes such as Rafael Viñoly’s revised Battersea Power Station scheme (News September 4)?

  • Opinion

    Fretton focus

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    I don’t see why being a Frettonite should inhibit your appreciation of other people’s buildings (“RIBA denies claims of Stirling favouritism”, August 28)

  • Opinion

    Stirling rethink

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    How about introducing more categories to the Stirling Prize — best individual house, best education building, best conservation project?

  • Opinion

    Beyond vodka

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Your feature “Is there life after architecture?” (News analysis August 28) is really helpful, but we can’t all become fashion designers or invent a new type of vodka

  • Opinion

    The vicious circle of Slumdog city life

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    As we strive to create bigger and better cities, we are squeezing out the basic needs of life

  • Are cranes about to be a common sight once more?
    Opinion

    Is this the beginning of the end of the recession?

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    The signs look positive, says Chris Johnson of Gensler; a cut in public spending is going to cut the industry hard, warns Noble Francis, economics director of the Construction Products Association

  • Opinion

    Bookies eye the prize

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    The bookies have an interesting take on BD’s story about allegations of favouritism at this year’s Stirling Prize

  • Opinion

    Jury still out on Stirling Prize

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Building Design should know better than to uncritically repeat the charges of favouritism being levied at the Stirling Prize jury by the most predicable chorus

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Pick your battles with care

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Reed should focus on quality not quantity if she wants her legacy at RIBA to overshadow her gender

  • Fascism? New Zealand House.
    Opinion

    Pall Mall palled

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    That Peter Davey of all people writes in praise of New Zealand House I find surprising (BD Magazine June)

  • Opinion

    Let’s go slow for fast trains

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    High-speed rail links sound attractive, but getting the slow ones to work properly should be the priority

  • Opinion

    Carbuncle bungle

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    There can be no argument that contemporary architecture in Aberdeen — one of the UK’s wealthiest cities — is irredeemably awful

  • Opinion

    A Poultry effort

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Should you ever consider instating such a thing as a Carbuncle Lifetime Achievement Award, I’d like to nominate the pink and off-white monstrosity Peter Palumbo erected in place of the Mappin & Webb Building at 1 Poultry.Chris Gregory via bdonline

  • Opinion

    Big guns out

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Your leader and Peter Murray’s letter on Chelsea Barracks (August 14) have their facts wrong. Many of the facts can be found in our letter of July 17

  • Opinion

    Remembering and forgetting

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Memorials to deaths from combat and ‘terrorism’ make a poor substitute for uncovering the truth