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  • Opinion

    Tower failures

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    The Camberwell fire (News July 10) raises two main points: first, the omission of the 900mm-high vertical and 600mm-wide fire breaks outlined in the London Building bylaws seems a major contribution

  • Opinion

    Time for a review

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    The fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell is shocking. As someone involved in work to 1960s housing over 20 years, I would point out that while there have been numerous fires in tower blocks since the 1960s, most have been confined to a single flat, with perhaps minor damage to ...

  • Opinion

    Visual impact

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    RE: Your story “RIBA’s choice of Stirling sponsor ‘undermines UK firms’”, News July 10

  • Opinion

    Correction: July 17 2009

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s front page story named Squint Opera among the British visualisation firms that had failed to win Olympic work

  • Opinion

    Time to put an end to all the arguing

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Newly redundant lawyers will have more time to contemplate their usefulness

  • Opinion

    Is America leading the way on sustainability?

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Yes, thanks to the Leed standard and Obama, says Patrick Bellew, but Gary Lawrence argues that China is making greater strides

  • Opinion

    Look outside: Pearson to landscape RIBA

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Interesting to see that the RIBA enlisted the services of TV landscape gardener Dan Pearson — rather than one of its own members — to revamp its two outside terraces, which are to be transformed into “simple, sustainable, architectural garden terraces”, according to a planning application lodged with Westminster Council

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Crystal clear hypocrisy

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    While speaking sternly against fee cutting, the RIBA has picked a Stirling Prize sponsor that undercuts its own members

  • Trinity Square car park: a dismally glowering brutalist monument?
    Opinion

    Not so thrilled by car park

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    It is unfortunate that the undoubted aesthetic value of the “Get Carter” car park expounded by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl June 26) is not balanced by the also undoubted irrelevance to modern retail and the community who live and shop beneath its “dismally thrilling” concrete

  • “Vulgar”: dRMM’s school.
    Opinion

    Failing time test

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    DRMM’s Clapham primary school (Works July 3) “replacing unfortunate 1960s extensions” with an even more unfortunate 2000s extension, demonstrates how many architects have dismally failed to learn the lessons of recent history

  • Owen Hatherley
    Opinion

    Modernism shouldn’t take rap for fire

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    It’s not the tower blocks that are to blame but, rather, our dereliction of duty towards their welfare

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    A 4th plinth for architecture?

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Could Trafalgar Square inspire us to experience the great buildings that never were?

  • Opinion

    It's a frame-up...

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Is there really so little going on that you had to resort to a non-story about the LSC framework (News July 3)?

  • Opinion

    One love

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    I’m pleased to say that Wayne Colquhoun’s view of Liverpool One (BD Bookclub, bdonline) is not shared by the majority of local, national and international visitors alike

  • Opinion

    Recession aid

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    In response to your story on the RIBA’s services for members (News July 3) James Cooke and I provide the Managing in Recession service for RIBA

  • Opinion

    Mersey unbeaten

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    In his paean of praise for Liverpool (Letters July 3), Robert MacDonald forgot to mention Everton Football Club (1878); and that Liverpool possesses, in St George’s Hall, arguably the finest 19th century building in the world

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Flacq was accidentally left out of the list of architects involved in the winning bid to regenerate Canning Town (News July 3).

  • The Arts Council put £30 million into Alsop’s The Public gallery.
    Opinion

    Does the organisation of the Arts Council need a rethink?

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    No says former board member Elsie Owusus, there is nothing fundamentally wrong, yes says report author Marc Sidwell, a new arts settlement is needed.

  • Opinion

    Jan's legacy

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    To Jan Kaplicky’s retrospective at the Design Museum, where Norman Foster was the first to pay tribute to the Future Systems co-founder.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    RIBA should look in, not out

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    The institute must decide whether its priority is empire-building or serving the needs of ordinary architects