More Comment – Page 215

  • The big, blue, bulging B-Bus.
    Opinion

    Future transport

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Is it a toy? Is it the Olympic Village transport system? No, it’s the B-Bus, or Boris Bus, Future Systems’ proposed new London routemaster, which was beaten by Fosters’ entry in the mayor’s competition for a design to replace Ken Livingstone’s bendy buses.

  • Opinion

    No House room

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Still with Foster’s, word reaches Boots that Norman Foster is to be questioned again over his shadowy tax status.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    New year, new uncertainties

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    The problems of the economy may be making the government more responsive to its critics in other areas

  • Bill Mitchell
    Opinion

    Legend of Utzon sails into the sunset

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    The saga of Jørn Utzon’s greatest legacy is part myth, part Bergman epic

  • Beijing Bird's Nest
    Opinion

    Should London’s Olympic stadium be an iconic design?

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Will Alsop, the stadium is the image of the Olympics that millions will see, but Graham Morrison and Bob Allies believe this design fulfills a wider and more complex legacy role

  • Hazelwood School, Glasgow: directly commissioned by the council.
    Opinion

    Did 2008 spell the end of gratuitous shape-making in architecture?

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Yes, and good riddance, says Malcolm Fraser, but the Victorian Society’s David Garrard sees no sign of the artistry disappearing

  • Opinion

    Offence will lose RIBA members

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Last week I received a letter from the president of the RIAS outlining the RIBA’s intention to increase subscriptions by 3% and asking for the views of the profession in Scotland. I am not in favour.

  • Opinion

    On good terms

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Your article, “RIBA fees hike sparks threat of RIAS divorce” (December 12), could bear some clarification.

  • Opinion

    Never married

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    I am intrigued to know how a body which has been wholly independent for almost 100 years can be accused of “breaking away” and “separatism”?

  • Opinion

    Time to think

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Carolyn Steel (Opinion December 5) raises an important question ignored for the past decade: how to improve derelict real estate and retain the community hub within it.

  • Opinion

    Spec saver

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Your front page coverage of the Good Homes Alliance’s critique of the Green Guide to Specification (News December 5) is not an accurate reflection of the development of the guide.

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    AOC teaches at London Metropolitan University, not Leeds, as stated in Debate, December 5.

  • Opinion

    Set for blast-off

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Countless heritage and archaeology bodies have given their views on the location for the Stonehenge visitor centre, and the Council for British Archaeology for one isn’t letting boring old pragmatism get in the way.

  • Opinion

    Women’s world

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Good to see that former culture minister Margaret Hodge’s efforts to put more women in high-profile public cultural roles in beginning to bear fruit, with Liz Forgan named this week as the new — and first-ever female — chair of Arts Council England.

  • Opinion

    Crack force

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Delicate repairs have been made this week to the glass roof of Norman Foster’s huge greenhouse, the National Botanic Garden of Wales, two and a half years after one of the 785 panes rather mysteriously cracked.

  • Opinion

    Chipping in

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Boots was delighted to be invited to Pringle Brandon’s Christmas “Champagne & Chips” party, but dismayed to find it was on December 23.

  • It’s what Christmas is all about: building the present or in this case, HE&C’s All Saints Church.
    Opinion

    Card sharps

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    A fine crop of Christmas cards has arrived at BD Towers over the past few weeks.

  • Liz Bury
    Opinion

    More Thames than Mersey

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool ought to have dominated the cultural year. As European City of Culture, it hosted its fair share of architectural events, chief among them the Stirling Prize. Biq’s Bluecoat arts centre opened its doors (it reopened them last week after a fire abruptly closed them in May).

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Mobile homes we could live with

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Harvard and BMW are collaborating on an innovative housing project to use the principles of car design — just in time for Christmas

  • The office Christmas party- seasonal bash or legal minefield?
    Opinion

    Beware the perils of merrymaking

    2008-12-16T15:10:00Z

    Don’t let your Christmas party get out of hand. Lawyer Patrick Perry tells you how to avoid letting a seasonal bash become a legal minefield