More Comment – Page 194

  • Should Foster’s Spitalfields Market plan have had an easier ride?
    Opinion

    Should planners encourage development in a recession?

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Seager of the British Property Federation says the recession requires a more flexible approach, but Ian Dungavell, Director of the Victorian Society, disagrees

  • Carbuncle: Liverpool terminal.
    Opinion

    Showing no Mersey for Carbuncle Cup winner

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    The news that Liverpool’s ferry terminal had clinched the 2009 Carbuncle Cup was picked up by a host of media last week

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Keep the Lighthouse shining

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow’s Lighthouse may be in difficulties but it’s the only real architecture centre we have

  • Architects need to recharge their batteries.
    Opinion

    Work smarter, not harder

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    I was sorry to read Mario Sua Kay’s letter (August 14) regarding your leader on holidays and of the impact Mario’s workload is having on his health

  • Opinion

    Cladding failure

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    In his article on Glasgow (Urban Trawl August 14), Owen Hatherley mentions the Dundasvale Estate and the Glasgow Housing Association policy on demolition and recladding

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    New regime means new woes

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    So, which party should architects vote for? I’m sorry; I’m stumped

  • Opinion

    Scots exodus

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    On the face of it Owen Hatherley’s article is quite a damning and thorough critique on Glasgow. But it fails to mention the residential and educational work in the city of Elder & Cannon, the excellent Beatson Institute by Reiach & Hall and the regeneration of the Merchant City

  • Opinion

    Words of wisdom

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    In Arb’s recent eBulletin we are told that according to its new code, which has been two years in the making, architects should do the following

  • Trinity Square: not just Gordon.
    Opinion

    Trinity's team

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Boots (August 14) attributes the design of Trinity Square (the Get Carter car park) solely to Rodney Gordon. That is incorrect.

  • Greenwich: plans on course.
    Opinion

    Market forces

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    You state that Hopkins’ plans for Greenwich Market are on course to be approved (bdonline August 21). Is Greenwich Council mad?

  • Opinion

    Stirling rethink

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    I agree with Will Alsop (Debate July 31): the Stirling Prize should be about building design

  • Opinion

    Charm of Finch

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Paul Finch is a brilliant choice to head Cabe (bdonline August 17)

  • Paul Morrell
    Opinion

    Secret of success is in the sequence

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    Another look at the Plan of Work could help enhance the role of designers

  • Is the prince like Louis XIV in his claims to speak for the people?
    Opinion

    Do Prince Charles's views represent the people?

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    About as much as Louis XIV’s did, argues Kate Macintosh; while Robert Bargery counters that he echoes the voice of Middle England

  • Sleddale Hall: ramshackle.
    Opinion

    "Remote" Stirling connection

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA’s claim that there is “a remote connection” between Stirling judge Stephen Bates and Tony Fretton, tipped to win this year’s prize, seems a little bit of an understatement if you read Ellis Woodman’s interview with the former in a Sergison Bates monograph for 2G

  • Telling the truth about Chelsea
    Opinion

    Rogers failed to put the case

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    In his letter on Chelsea Barracks (July 17) Richard Rogers says: “There has been a steady flow of misinformation about Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ approach to the design”

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    A second bite at the cherry

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    Chelsea Barracks’ developer seems determined not to repeat the mistakes of the ill-fated Rogers Stirk Harbour masterplan

  • Opinion

    Data processing

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    Your article on the number of black teachers in architecture schools (News July 31) presents a misleading picture of diversity in architecture as both a career and an academic discipline

  • Opinion

    Dubai? I can’t do Stevenage

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    I can’t help feeling that cities that grow all too quickly out of imperial decrees, government diktats, or desert sands are rarely successful

  • Opinion

    It all adds up

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    “Half of UK architecture schools have no black teachers” (News July 31)