More Comment – Page 198

  • Opinion

    Crying out for local nourishment

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    New problems for dairy farmers highlight our failure to recognise the value of local economies

  • Opinion

    Engineering is the real cost

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    If good architects are appointed early enough and can develop new station concepts with clever engineers, then there is always additional “value” in the design and very often significant cost savings

  • Opinion

    Hang on in there

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    I graduated with my part II in 1991 during the last recession and after a desperate couple of years of unemployment found work as a cleaner in order to support my family and regain some dignity

  • Opinion

    Outside edge

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    I was delighted to read about excluded student Aaron Collins going on to win a place on Kingston’s architecture degree course and then a major national award (News June 26)

  • Liverpool School of Art: get your culture here…
    Opinion

    Love Liverpool

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Barbara Follett must have had her mind on something else when she opined that “Liverpool was something of a culture-free zone before the European Capital of Culture 2008” (Boots June 19)

  • Opinion

    Bury disinterred

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Martin O’Shea’s reassurance (Letters June 26) that plants will grow all over the new Studio MGM building in Bury St Edmunds brings to mind that old dictum of Frank Lloyd Wright: “Doctors can bury their mistakes. Architects can only plant vines”

  • Opinion

    Democracy myth

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    At the risk of prolonging the saga, I feel I have to respond to Stuart Heaton (Letters June 26)

  • Opinion

    Corrections: 03 July 2009

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Richard MacCormac reduced the length of Southwark station’s passenger tunnel by 16m, not 60m (News June 26), cutting the cost by £1.6 million.

  • In need of an architect? The current proposal for Paddington.
    Opinion

    Does Crossrail have low design aspirations?

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    No, says Crossrail’s chairman Terry Morgan, we want to create a world-class railway; while Kenneth Powell argues that the scheme will suffer from lack of an architectural vision

  • Opinion

    Olympics dissidents recant on video

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Are the Beijing apparatchiks still pulling the Olympic strings? Boots wonders after a bevy of architectural bigwigs critical of Olympic design were frogmarched around the site last week and then allowed to repent for their dissident views by recording gushing messages for a London 2012 online video.

  • Opinion

    Gothic is still alive — just

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Will the addition to Westminster Abbey be a seamless part of the original fabric or a kitsch, whimsical flourish? Perhaps the last of the goths should lend a hand

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Don’t let them nail Crossrail

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of London’s new rail line needs to realise that design is not just an expensive add-on

  • Opinion

    A deficiency of democracy

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    I disagree strongly with your Leader (June 19). Surely the Qataris bought the Chelsea Barracks site first, with a view to obtaining a planning permission, and then second making a lot of money selling off their prestigious apartments.

  • Opinion

    Just accept it

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    Well done Amanda Baillieu for saying what many people have feared to

  • Opinion

    It’s an imposition

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    The first two objections to the Rogers Stirk Harbour scheme put forward by the Chelsea Barracks Action Group are that the scheme is too high and too dense

  • Opinion

    Dead on the slab

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    Amidst the burgeoning hubris of an architect spurned, your leader was most welcome, pointing out that the Chelsea Barracks scheme was probably heading for rejection by due democratic process

  • Opinion

    Read the runes

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    We have a couple of schemes in for planning at the moment

  • Does MGM have a hit?
    Opinion

    Don’t Bury it yet

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    Having seen Studio MGM’s timber-framed and clad apartments rise from a particularly drab corner of the Bury St Edmunds ring road over the past couple of years, I was aghast at John Henry Kneller Eborn’s prejudiced and ill-informed letter (June 19)

  • Opinion

    Barrier grief

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    While I think that shared spaces offer an improvement on the cluttered streets we tolerate, the thought that they exclude blind and partially sighted people makes me uneasy

  • Opinion

    Bad education

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    Tim Ward’s letter (June 19) raised only one aspect of the architectural students’ woes. The other is that they leave their schools with a woefully inadequate education