More Opinion – Page 156

  • Does the definition of “architect” need to change?
    Opinion

    Should part IIs be allowed to call themselves architects?

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Yes, says Paul McGrath, the current regulations put part IIs at a disadvantage against other EU architects; but Owen Luder feels a revamped training system is the answer to addressing the anomaly

  • Chapel lacks a fighting chance.
    Opinion

    All in the timing at Chelsea Barracks

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Chelsea Barracks developer Qatari Diar has applied for immunity from listing for the Guards’ chapel on its land

  • Part of London & Quadrant and Telford Homes’ proposal for the site.
    Opinion

    Surveying Robin Hood’s riches

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    As a member of the Twentieth Century Society, I deplore the statement on last week’s front page by its spokesman, condemning architects bidding for the Robin Hood Gardens site

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    On leading northern lights

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Low winter sun presents particular challenges for architects working in northern climes

  • Opinion

    Fuelling debate

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    The Twentieth Century Society’s primary issue with the new proposals for Robin Hood Gardens, is rooted in questioning the client objectives and the brief, not the architects involved

  • Opinion

    Memory lane

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    I enjoyed Owen Hatherley’s urban trawl (November 12) and look forward to the rest

  • Opinion

    Empty promises

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    I am one of the remaining leaseholders on the Heygate Estate

  • Community input: Wick Village Estate, east London.
    Opinion

    Local planning

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Cabe chairman Paul Finch is on shaky ground in arguing that “anything in the built environment we admire had nothing to do with local communities putting in their ideas on design” (bdonline November 15)

  • Opinion

    Winning ways

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Wouldn’t it be easier to describe all CIAT, Riba degree-level candidates as apprentice architects?

  • Frank Gehry's IAC building in New York
    Opinion

    Dot to dot results: 19 November 2010

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s winner was Elissa Evans of Powell Dobson in Swansea, who identified Frank Gehry’s IAC building in New York

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Our report last week on “Designs to replace Robin Hood Gardens revealed” said that Maccreanor Lavington was part of the team fronted by Swan Housing & Countryside Properties. While the practice was invited to be part of the team, it declined to participate.

  • John Bushell
    Opinion

    Knowledge is Power

    2010-11-24T14:25:00Z

    Will the profession ultimately fail itself with style but no substance? asks KPF’s John Bushell

  • Ellis Woodman - editor
    Opinion

    A broader failure of vision

    2010-11-19T09:00:00Z

    Neither of the projects in contention to replace Robin Hood Gardens looks likely to address the basic problems of the site

  • Matthew Turner
    Opinion

    Contradictions of the new localism

    2010-11-19T08:00:00Z

    Axeing Regional Development Agencies doesn’t negate the need for regional strategy

  • What’s wrong with part III?
    Opinion

    What’s wrong with part III?

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    So Paul McGrath would like to use the title of architect because he sees it as appropriate recognition for five years of study (News November 5)

  • Opinion

    Seven year itch

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Abolishing the final year of professional practice and absorbing part III examinations into part II seems on the cards if the EU/McGrath issue is to be resolved

  • Opinion

    Housing vision

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest Ed Hollis’s diatribe on the sad demise of council housing (November 12)

  • Opinion

    The space age

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    William Fawcett (Letters, November 12) could not be more wrong in supposing that architects working in the public sector in the sixties were not supported by a body of research. At that time there was a constant stream of Building Bulletins from the Ministry of Housing & Local Government.In 1961 ...

  • Stirling work: Foster’s bodega.
    Opinion

    Top tank

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    My heart skipped a beat when I saw the fermentation tank elevation photograph of Foster’s Faustino bodega (Buildings November 12) – pure Jim Stirling. Jim Stirling lives!Rob Lewis, East Horsley, Surrey

  • Opinion

    Planning ahead

    2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Your leader and Derek Abbott’s letter (November 12) made me recall my father, Roy Kantorowich, who is surely spinning in his grave, shouting “told you so” whether you like it or not