More Comment – Page 305

  • Opinion

    Shared Bath

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    We read with interest your well presented article about Bath’s new Spa (Works August 4).

  • Opinion

    Down to a T

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Tim Loftus (Letters August 11) refers in his letter “Mono classics” to the Lotus Elise (1957) as one of the first true monocoque cars.

  • Opinion

    Architects burden

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    I have just attended a presentation by local authority town planning officers on the three Town & Country Planning statutory instruments published in May, and the DCLG Circular 01/2006 Guidance on changes to the development control system.

  • Opinion

    Voters’ rights

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Britain has an enviable social history where the rights and opinions of the individual have been recognised and respected — if not agreed with.

  • Opinion

    Prize must look beyond the spectacular

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    What does the Stirling Prize shortlist say about 21st century British architecture?

  • Opinion

    Just who is being dense here?

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    Setting up stalls at his Venice market, Ricky Burdett is peddling a high-density-fits-all range of future cities.

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-08-25T00:00:00Z

    This week from Concrete Boots

  • Opinion

    Ken needs to deliver on his green pledges

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    A year on and the Olympics remains a mirage: it’s as if we can imagine the best of every games — Sydney’s weather, Barcelona’s buildings, Athens fireworks — recreated in the gritty urban wastelands of east London. But the mirage is starting to fade.

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    There’s a clever centrefold featuring skyscrapers arranged like The Usual Suspects

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    This week from Concrete Boots

  • Opinion

    Graduates need technical skills now

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    In your editorial about the latest crop of graduates (Comment, July 28), you say that “the complex technical requirements of putting a building together can come later” meaning students don’t have to acquire these skills at their schools of architecture.

  • Opinion

    RIBA questions

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Your editorial (Comment August 4) states that it would be better for the RIBA to direct questions about architecture and architects to audiences other than architects themselves.

  • Opinion

    Direct action

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    So the RIBA is to launch “the biggest ever survey of architects’ thoughts on the profession” (News August 4).

  • Opinion

    Last orders

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    I don’t know when Peter Cook studied at Bournemouth,

  • 1959 Mini
    Opinion

    Mono classics

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Marco da Cruz sings the praises of the 1959 Mini (Solutions July 28).

  • Opinion

    Mini mistakes

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    I do not think Marco da Cruz can have done any research at all on the origins and structure of the Mini.

  • Opinion

    Bad marks

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    I was one of those hapless individuals who cast my vote in the three days before the press revealed the true political face of Peter Phillips.

  • Opinion

    Phillips's world

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Given Peter Phillips’s very distinctive view of the world,

  • Opinion

    Wait till the resits

    2006-08-11T00:00:00Z

    Your report on Edinburgh College of Art’s part I results (News July 28) requires two corrections:

  • Opinion

    Ian Martin

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    I wanted to email Frank Gehry but pressed the wrong button and converted it into an exploding 3D masterpiece