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  • Stirling work: Liverpool One
    Opinion

    Liverpool views

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool One may not have impressed Hans van der Heijden (Boots July 31) but, unlike his work for a puerile housing scheme in Birkenhead and indeed the immensely disappointing Bluecoat Chambers scheme, the “masterplan” is very popular here in Liverpool

  • Opinion

    Prize planning

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    Should the Stirling Prize include masterplans? (Debate July 31)

  • Opinion

    Past and present

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    I am of course sorry that the British Museum has been frustrated in its expansion plans, which may well be badly needed (News July 31)

  • Opinion

    Glut of standards

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    The main problem with the size of new homes (bdonline June 11) is the range of standards being applied

  • Opinion

    Working holiday

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    I loved the little bit in your leader (July 24) advising architects to resolve the company’s problems before going on holiday

  • Opinion

    Modernism sells better with frocks

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    Coco Before Chanel reminds us why we rarely see architecture on the big screen

  • One of the frontrunners for this year’s Carbuncle Cup: Make’s Jubilee Campus building in Nottingham.
    Opinion

    Should bad architecture be named and shamed?

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    Fat’s Sean Griffiths says that by denouncing bad buildings quality will improve, but Anna Liu argues this is a dangerous vehicle for biased criticism

  • Opinion

    Rich pickings at the RIBA

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    Leafing through the RIBA’s report and accounts for 2008, Boots’ eye was drawn to a section marked “staff costs”

  • Opinion

    Capturing the end of an era

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    Only a small part of Bill Mitchell’s article is correct (Opinion July 24). The Kodachrome process was largely unknown in England until the late 1940s — most of the first colour images of England were taken by American servicemen or by expensive fashion magazines

  • Opinion

    Carbon baloney

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    I think both architects and the specialist media are still paying lip service to the carbon-neutral issue. You need to get your act together if you are serious about this

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Should we love or hate fascist buildings?

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    We condemn buildings built by fascists because of their political history rather than their architectural worth

  • New utopian: Barber’s hostel.
    Opinion

    True vision

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    David Nixon’s article (News Analysis July 17) is not only well informed and relevant, but inserts a recent and precious vision of the future by Jan Kaplicky

  • Opinion

    Tipping point

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    The contrast between BD articles “Adjaye brought to brink of insolvency” and “Gimme shelter” (News & Works July 24) could hardly have illustrated better the tipping point between the old world and the new order at which architecture finds itself

  • Opinion

    Doublethink

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    The proposition at the epicentre of modernist architecture is that, to be worthy, a design should reflect its time, its zeitgeist

  • Opinion

    M25 is beautiful

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey is wildly wrong about the M25 (Back page July 17)

  • Opinion

    Oakus pocus

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    So what exactly is so transformatory about Kevin McCloud’s new development (News July 24)?

  • Opinion

    Barracks battle

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    While I sympathise with RSHP’s difficulties over the Chelsea Barracks scheme, aren’t we fighting the wrong battle with the wrong person in calling for a boycott?

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Masterplan for the future

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    Stirling has already swayed from its origins, so why not include masterplans?

  • Opinion

    Clarification

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    In our story “Adjaye brought to brink of insolvency” (News July 24) we quoted RIBA Director of Professional Services Richard Brindley as saying that “Ojeu rules for all public contracts say that bidders can’t be in any form of insolvency”

  • Carolyn Steel
    Opinion

    Architects must expand their horizons

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    The profession can learn a lot from the TED model of thinking outside the box