More Comment – Page 196

  • Liverpool One has been shortlisted for this year’s Stirling Prize.
    Opinion

    Should a masterplan be eligible for the Stirling?

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    David Page says academics need to open their eyes and look at the bigger picture, while Will Alsop is adamant that the Stirling Prize should be for a building

  • Opinion

    Praying for Robin Hood Gardens' demolition

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    Could it be that the final nail in the coffin for Robin Hood Gardens is hammered home not by regeneration officials at Tower Hamlets council but by Allah?

  • Opinion

    RIBA active on climate change

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    I am happy to tell David Nixon (News Analysis July 17) that the RIBA has been anything but waiting for the government to tell it what to do on climate change: the opposite in fact, with some impact

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Don’t make hard times harder

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Architects like David Adjaye have enough to worry about without tying clients’ hands with red tape

  • Opinion

    Kicked in the ribs

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    I am left dumbfounded, no, actually I’m speechless and downright bloody angry, at our professional body’s decision to invite the Chinese-based visualisation company Crystal to sponsor the Stirling Prize, and that with our government’s help it has won the commission to produce the visuals for London 2012

  • Opinion

    Make every town an eco-town

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    There’s no point bulding tokenistic, half-baked fake communities for New Labour clones while we’re still wedded to motorways, airports and superstores

  • John Lyall’s dance studios.
    Opinion

    Right, said Saïd

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    The fact that one of our most generous benefactors is working with us to get value for money is hardly a “blow” for Oxford University (News July 17)

  • Opinion

    Pencil pusher

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Given a total outlay of £1 billion regenerating Ipswich, one might have expected a more exciting and, frankly, competent “first image” of the £8.9 million Jerwood DanceHouse, filling almost half of page 3 in last week’s BD

  • Opinion

    Space is the place

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    The introduction by the London Mayor of minimum space standards for housing (News July 9) will please some and dismay others

  • Opinion

    Tower fire safety

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s letters in BD concerning the tragic fire at Lakanal House, Camberwell, raised some points about the need to be vigilant about the maintenance of standards throughout the lives of tower blocks

  • Opinion

    Brent not broken

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Barnet Council has neither “stopped” not “halted” the application to regenerate Brent Cross and Cricklewood; we have decided to consider it in the autumn rather than the summer

  • Opinion

    Kodachrome marks the end of an era

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    The 600-year story of the inert single-viewpoint image is drawing to a close. The digital image tells us more

  • Is Herzog & de Meuron’s Lubetkin Prize-winning Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium in Beijing setting a bad example?
    Opinion

    Should unsustainable buildings win major prizes?

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Alison Brooks says that outstanding buildings like the Bird’s Nest can adapt to future long-term use, while Paul Hyett argues that sustainability should be a key element of award criteria

  • Peter’s friends
    Opinion

    Carbon comparison rocks Beijing stadium

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Stadium rocked

  • Opinion

    Our chance to save the world

    2009-07-17T00:16:00Z

    The RIBA must seize the climate change initiative to ensure architects are heroes not villains

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    The green debate warms up

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Green initiatives are all very well but UK architects need to ask why they design some of the least energy-efficient buildings in Europe

  • RSHP’s plan: three times more public space than required.
    Opinion

    Telling the truth about Chelsea

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    There has been a steady flow of misinformation about Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ approach to the design of the Chelsea Barracks proposal, particularly with regard to height and materials as well as local and statutory consultation

  • Opinion

    Stand by RSHP

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Two months ago, Sunand Prasad wrote to every RIBA member imploring them not to succumb to the pressure of recession by undercutting the fees and interests of fellow professionals

  • Opinion

    The M25: dullness without end

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Could we add towers or pylons of some sort, follies and truly charming signs like the cut-out bulls along Spanish roads?

  • Gary Cooper as Howard Roark.
    Opinion

    Fountain of truth

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Who can say they are not surprised to see architects vying for the Chelsea Barracks scheme?