More Comment – Page 213

  • Opinion

    At first hand

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Last July six London-based women architects spent 10 days on an exchange visit with women architects, engineers and planners in East Jerusalem and the West Bank

  • Opinion

    Legal function

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Architects are seen by many to be an expensive luxury, as well as uncommercially and untechnically minded.

  • Opinion

    Cold war relic

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    I was intrigued by the line in your review of the Tony Fretton British Embassy in Poland (Solutions January 16) suggesting the original ambassador’s residence, planned for demolition, had been saved

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    An editing error to Gordon Murray’s letter last week suggested that James Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall was geographically near a trio of redbrick buildings.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Awards need a proper prize

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Removing the cash reward from the Stirling Prize sends out the wrong message both to architects and the wider world

  • Opinion

    Society is built on a shed in Thurrock

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    News this week that food prices in 2008 rose by 12% have confirmed what most of us already knew: that cheap food can no longer be taken for granted. But what about food itself? Surely we can rely on that? On the other hand, perhaps not

  • Robin Hood Gardens: is refurbishment better than demolition?
    Opinion

    Is it all over for Robin Hood Gardens housing estate?

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Yes, residents are in touching distance of having the new homes they want, says council leader Lutfur Rahman; while Alan Powers argues that refurbishment would be a win-win outcome

  • Opinion

    Turning tables

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    How will the RIBA get over the embarrassment of handing out architecture’s main prize with no cash for the winner?

  • Opinion

    Jam tomorrow

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Depressed architects are being encouraged to strum their troubles away, Boots hears

  • Top TV hunk Kevin McCloud
    Opinion

    Kiwi attraction

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Grand Designs and Stirling Prize presenter Kevin McCloud is fast becoming a heart-throb down under

  • Essential tools of upskilling.
    Opinion

    Ripping yarn

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    While they may now have spent six months without a paying visitor, staff at the Public art gallery in West Bromwich have not been at a loss as to how to fill their time.

  • Opinion

    Eastern promise

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    In these difficult times, a diverse set of skills is essential — a point demonstrated by Adam Woodyatt, better known as Eastenders' Ian Beale

  • Chris Johnson
    Opinion

    Recession? Yes, but also great architecture

    2009-01-22T19:19:00Z

    Whilst the history books will record the recession, they’ll also remember great architecture, says Gensler’s Chris Johnson

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Why towers must aim high

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron’s towers will reignite a debate about London’s skyline that ought to be solely about good architecture

  • Opinion

    Let’s fix the roof before the next storm

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    We need to align policy around the idea that our homes are not a suitable subject for speculation

  • Academic research league tables have been criticised as a lottery.
    Opinion

    Should architecture schools care about league tables?

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Westminster University’s Murray Fraser, they help raise the bar all round; no, says Lincoln School of Architecture’s Nicholas Temple, they are convenient but give too narrow a view

  • Opinion

    Beyond technicalities

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    It was gratifying to read of the great research success of UK architecture schools (News January 9), but it is important to make a few clarifications.

  • Opinion

    Pulling rank

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed the omission of some leading research institutions from your list of the “top 25” schools of architecture (News January 9).

  • Opinion

    Spirited place

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    I enjoyed your piece on Jim Stirling’s Andrew Melville Hall (Solutions January 9). As my daughter is studying in St Andrews, I take every opportunity to wander around the last of his university buildings in the UK.

  • Jan’s bus: move along, please.
    Opinion

    Easy does it

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Future Systems’ Jan Kaplicky suggests “[Fosters’ bus] entry is totally obsolete” (Boots January 9). I would agree — not because of the design concept but because it would be economically impracticable to construct and maintain.