More Comment – Page 299

  • Opinion

    North south divide

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    I much appreciate the way BD tries to promote the interests of women in architecture.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-11-03T00:00:00Z

    This week form Concrete Boots

  • Opinion

    Arb niggles, but bigger issues lie ahead

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Should architects be up in arms that the annual retention fee — the pompous name for the cost of being a member of Arb — has gone up by £1.50? It is not much but some feel the increase is not only unnecessary but also legally questionable.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    My friend Tub Haagendas calls, and we put our heads together to design a second planet

  • Opinion

    Break free of World Heritage tyranny

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    If a two-level planning system wasn’t hard enough, we now a have third level — and it’s global.

  • Opinion

    Good riddance to flash architecture

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Thank heavens that John Prevc of Make, the Elephant & Castle masterplanner, has had the sanity to reject the Alsop consortium’s “flash architecture” in preference for “considerate and well-planned regeneration” (News October 20).

  • Opinion

    Poor image

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    I don’t know how I might feel, had I the misfortune to be the author of either of the two projects featured on the front page of BD (October 20).

  • Opinion

    Arsenal let-down

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    The assumption that we were not involved in the Lough Road design-and-build housing scheme is correct (Carbuncle Awards October 13).

  • Opinion

    Down the tube

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    While welcoming Tim O’Toole’s pledge to return London Underground to the glory days of Frank Pick (News October 6) with stations as distinctive as churches, he seems only to be interested in the new if my local tube station, Arsenal, is anything to go by.

  • Opinion

    Street life

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    I welcome BD’s interest in London’s bus infrastructure and its recognition of the role Transport for London plays in the city’s design heritage (News September 29).

  • Opinion

    Mistaken identity

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    It was nice to see a photo of Leonard Mannaseh’s kindly face in BD (October 20), even if the caption did say it was of Jim Cadbury Brown.

  • Opinion

    Shape up!

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    Sorry to be pedantic but...

  • Opinion

    Sad story

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    It was depressing to read in your report (News October 13) that Arb’s new chief executive thinks the Reform Group is trying to change the Architects Act.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-10-27T00:00:00Z

    This week from Concrete Boots

  • Opinion

    How to avoid a succession of disasters

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    It’s not only prime ministers who find the business of succession difficult. Architects do, too.

  • Opinion

    Chartered scheme is misunderstood

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    The letters you have had complaining about the RIBA Chartered Practice scheme are misinformed or misconceived.

  • Opinion

    Foundation course

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Patrick Lynch’s comments about the shortcomings of the RIBA competitions process are simply wrong.

  • Koolhaas’s fun structure needs to be visited to be judged.
    Opinion

    Another view

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Why was Rem Koolhaas’s Serpentine Pavilion selected as a carbuncle? “A bad attempt at 1960s inflatable architecture” sounds like a bottom of the barrel critique.

  • Opinion

    Mersey beat

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Although I am grateful for the carbuncle nomination (Focus October 13), I hasten to add that I am not, nor have been since the millennium, the head of school at Liverpool University.

  • Opinion

    Plymouth horror

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Just wish to clarify the “planning” aspect of the well-deserved Carbuncle Cup awarded to Drake Circus Shopping Centre, Plymouth.