More Comment – Page 281
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OpinionThoughts are key to contests
It is entirely unnecessary for architects to be asked to produce extensive design as part of a competition process.
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Smoke and ire
As our office has long had an absolute no-smoking policy, I had thought that the smoking ban being brought into law in England on July 1 would not affect us.
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Minority vote
If the rewards and working conditions of the architectural profession were to improve, perhaps more women and those from ethnic minorities would join.
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Square despair
I would like to add to the debate on public spaces (Letters May 4). I walk through Gillett Square in Dalston nearly every day.
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OpinionUse your sense
Having spent 31 years visiting Aalto’s buildings in Finland and the US, I was delighted to attend the Alvar Aalto exhibition and study day last week at the Barbican. Sadly, both were disappointing.
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OpinionAre architects to blame for soulless housing estates?
David Lammy fears architects could be repeating the mistakes of the past, while David Barber argues we must devolve ownership of social housing
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Sound loaded
News reached Boots this week that Latin pop crumpet Ricky Martin will soon be Livin’ La Vida Loca in new digs.
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The Untouchable
Having been tough on Arb, PFI and architecture minister David Lammy, self-confessed street-fighter and RIBA president Jack Pringle is now getting tough on possible conflicts of interest within the institute itself.
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Switch it on
“They are out and they are proud, and their success is key to British life. Among them are actors, authors and, yes, even business people too.”
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Im your man
Still with newspaper lists, it seems that Norman Foster is flavour of the month at Rupert Murdoch’s News International.
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Taste of candy
Which lucky architect will the Candy brothers pick to refurbish their new offices?
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OpinionThe glorious dawn of our Five Year Plan
I’m British not Stalinist, writes Chancellor of the Exchequer Gurnon Frown
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OpinionNight of the planning triumph
Council planning committees could learn a trick from eBay, muses Roger Zogolovitch
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OpinionBlair’s legacy is the red tape
Despite positive architectural initiatives, housing has been the PM’s greatest failing
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OpinionEmpty ritual of the consultation show
Community involvement exercises are the most effective way to ignore the locals
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OpinionSpace for all
Far from being gentrification of an existing area, Gillett Square was a grotty car park and through-road.
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Fair and square
The building of Gillett Square is a locally-based project some 15 years in the making, and good for another 100.
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Skys the limit
Looking at page 5 (April 20), I wonder again why even the best architects think skyscraper design is either a matter of getting a wedge of cheese and cutting lumps off it, or making a vaguely rude shape out of plasticine.