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  • Opinion

    Venice lessons don’t tell whole story

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Anyone in Venice last week for the opening of the biennale might think they were witnessing a defining moment: the moment when architects were forced to admit defeat and confess they no longer had any answers to the problem of cities.

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    The story of Cinderella

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Cinderella fantasised about finding a partner with whom she could practise happily ever after

  • Opinion

    How Al Gore could change your life

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    “In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: ‘You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to.’”

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    This week form Concrete Boots

  • Opinion

    Register should be more accessible

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    It is sad to hear the Office of Fair Trading has endorsed the authority of the privately run Architects Accredited in Building Conservation register (News September 8).

  • Opinion

    Ruling is an insult

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    If the RIBA ever wanted to know why so few people vote in elections or why they feel so unhappy and disenfranchised, it need look no further than the appalling setting-up of various registers for accreditation it keeps endorsing.

  • Opinion

    Like with like

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    I’d like to add a footnote to the “Wales is mediocre” debate (Letters September 1 and 8) with some facts: Wales’s population is 3 million; England’s is 50 million.

  • Opinion

    Zoo views

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    I have been involved with exhibit design at Chester Zoo and feel Mike Guppy’s views (Letters September 8) are slightly outdated.

  • Opinion

    Listen to Israelis

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    The frequency of anti-Israeli articles and rants in BD is increasing, turning it into a platform for Abe Hayeem and Ian Martin’s Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, whose aim is to demonise and delegitimise Israel.

  • Opinion

    Drawing the line

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    We were saddened to read (News August 25) that student drawings may have been binned by the RIBA and not returned to their authors.

  • Broadway Malyan’s sailing innovations.
    Opinion

    Sinking feeling

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan’s image (News September 8) packed in the ugliest collection of 35-storey lumps you’re likely to see on SkyscraperPage.com.

  • Opinion

    Altered altar

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Gavin Stamp’s article on St George’s Bloomsbury (BD September 1) compelled me to refer to my 1948 student thesis on Hawksmoor’s London churches.

  • Opinion

    Delivering value

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest your piece on PFI budget cuts (News August 25).

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    The client of St George’s Bloomsbury (Works September 1) should have been the Parochial Church Council of St George’s Church, Bloomsbury.

  • Opinion

    Forget your peers, give us practicality

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Architects hate Building Regulations because they represent, however crudely or simplistically, a kind of feedback from society.

  • Opinion

    Watch your figure

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    As chief executive of Local Authority Building Control, I was very concerned to read your front page story headlined: “Two in three architects believe building control damages design quality” (News, September 1).

  • Opinion

    Gorilla warfare

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    There was I thinking that award-winning penguin pools and elephant houses were regarded as inappropriate in the 21st century, when BD devoted a whole page to the “ingeniously constructed” new gorilla enclosure at London Zoo (Solutions, August 25).

  • Opinion

    Marina madness

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    I thought last week’s letter from Chris Teague of Cardiff was incredibly rude: tragically, Wales is the home of the plastic window and what good vernacular architecture they had has mostly been trashed.

  • Opinion

    Assembly anger

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Ellis Woodman describes Rich-ard Rogers’ Welsh Assembly as “dogmatically observing disabled access” (News August 25).

  • Opinion

    Frosty reception

    2006-09-08T00:00:00Z

    I was a bit surprised at Amanda Birch’s slighting references to the BBC2 Blizzard programme in her article on Scott’s hut (Solutions, September 1).