More Comment – Page 214

  • Opinion

    Blindingly clear

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    In reference to the Future Systems design for a new bus for London (Boots January 9), when will the hubristic blob and jagged shape brigade put function high up on the design agenda?

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    This week

  • Opinion

    Musical chairs

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    With the difficulty the DCMS is having finding someone to chair English Heritage, it’s taking no chances with the same job at Cabe when John Sorrell departs next year.

  • Warhol lights up: does the smell last for more than 15 minutes?
    Opinion

    Sniffy critics

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Since his appointment as editor a year ago, Tom Weaver has injected the long moribund AA Files with a new lease of life.

  • Opinion

    Dining out on it

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Tofu or not tofu? That is the question.

  • Opinion

    Not an architect

    2009-01-16T00:00:00Z

    Nice to hear of ministers giving UK architects a helping hand, no matter how many jollies to Singapore it may require.

  • Opinion

    Give Bush’s era the order of the boot

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    As the boom bursts, how best to commemorate the president who let this happen?

  • Opinion

    The audacity of open architecture

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Under the Bush presidency, the US has been erecting bunker-like embassy designs worldwide. With the inauguration of Obama, will the new US embassy in south London take a different tack?

  • Liz Bury
    Opinion

    Glimmers of hope in the gloom

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    In uncertain times everyone has a prediction, but between the bad and the mad are some positive signs for architects

  • Opinion

    Skills needed not role models

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    I am a “black” architect running a small practice in south London and find your news story on black role models (12 December) extremely disturbing.

  • Opinion

    Mote and beam

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Michael Rasmussen (Letters December 19) uses such words as “disturbed”, “ill timed and insensitive”, “great offence”, “offensive”, “wave of resignations”, “cutting the common bond”. What dreadful act might justify such language?

  • Would villages like this one in the Cotswolds see sustainable communities spring from relaxed rural planning laws?
    Opinion

    Should the government relax rural planning laws?

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Relaxing planning laws will hlep prvent villages becoming commuter homes, argues Mole Architecture’s Meredith Bowles, while the CPRE’s Kate Gordon counters that it will divert building from towns and cities.

  • Opinion

    Let’s get together

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    How disappointing that concerns over the RIBA fees increase led to calls for a break with the RIBA. (Letters December 19).

  • Opinion

    Yawning gap

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Last week it was Hoxton Square, this week (December 19) a library in Vienna.

  • Opinion

    Best laid plans...

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Carolyn Steel’s Opinion piece (5 December) elucidated much of why local communities are often at odds with the planning process and feel marginalised by so-called regeneration schemes.

  • Opinion

    Women’s work

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Do you, like me, ever sit at your desk and wonder where the boundaries of your duties lie, or even whether our clients comprehend the task we have to do?

  • Opinion

    Sits vac

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Barry Cunliffe is still soldiering on as interim chair of EH, five months after the death of Sandy Bruce-Lockhart.

  • Opinion

    Stone me

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Stonehenge was given to the nation in the 19th century on the condition that it be freely accessible to us all. But the authorities now regard it as a capital asset to be exploited for profit

  • Opinion

    The F factor

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    When not handling Multiplex’s immense claim over Wembley Stadium, top City law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is focusing on other ways to combat the recession.

  • Opinion

    Star turn

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The term “starchitect” may take on an entirely different meaning if Brad Pitt has anything to do with it.