More Opinion – Page 210

  • Opinion

    ARG-umentative

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The Arb Reform Group is not known to pull its punches in debates with appointed board members, but new recruit Ruth Brennan, who is standing for election to the board for the first time, managed to have a run-in with chief executive Alison Carr before the ballot papers were even ...

  • Opinion

    Majestic move

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The Carlton Club, a long-time favourite watering hole for architects at Mipim, is no more.

  • Opinion

    City limits

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    If wisdom comes with age, why are so many Brazilian architects up in arms over 101-year-old Oscar Niemeyer’s latest plans to alter Brasilia?

  • Opinion

    Piste off

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    And finally to Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud who, owing to a skiing accident, was unable to travel home to finish the voiceover for the first programmein the new series.

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Building with mud, glorious mud

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Using mud to build may be an extreme example of giving preference to local materials, but if we don’t explore such options we are condemned to the banal

  • Opinion

    Don’t bank on it

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    At a time when we are all suffering from the effects of too little regulation, the public will wonder where the Arb Reform Group (Letters January 30) is coming from in wishing to follow the banking profession.

  • Feilden Clegg Bradley did not squander its Accordia winnings.
    Opinion

    We won’t waste Stirling cash

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    We’re not blowing our Stirling cash on parties (News January 23)! We’re using the money to publish a detailed account of the evolution of the Accordia project and the experience of living there.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    PFI chickens come home to roost

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    The unpopular procurement method is now proving an obstacle to the government’s plans to boost the economy

  • Opinion

    The house is a machine for learning

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Architects’ quest to design mixed communities could benefit from looking at a group of Gallic militant lefties

  • Opinion

    Is it time to scrap the Private Finance Initiative?

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Definitely, says former RIBA president Jack Pringle, but Skanska director of education Steve Cooper believes architects have a great opportunity now.

  • Opinion

    Kudos is reward

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Your headline “Stirling to drop prize money” (January 23) is misleading. The question of whether and how to fund a prize is being discussed — no decision has been made.

  • Opinion

    Good riddance

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    So the Stirling Prize is just about over — great! — who cares?

  • Opinion

    Talking rubbish

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    How encouraging it was for us at the bottom of the architectural food chain to hear Richard Harrington, chairman of Nightingale Associates, describe ward refurbishments as “rubbish like that” (News January 16)

  • Opinion

    Hospital case

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    I was shocked by Richard Harrington’s remarks on ward refurbishment

  • Opinion

    Reform’s cool

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Elections for the Arb board and executive are here again. In 2006, five of the 22 candidates seeking election to Arb’s seven architect places collected 70% of the profession’s votes

  • Opinion

    Title fight

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    It’s bad enough that there are so few jobs advertised for architects in the national, or any, press.

  • Opinion

    Corrections: 30.01.09

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Make me a Home finalist Spine Architects is located in Hamburg, Germany, not Myanmar and New York, as reported last week.

  • Going so soon? DSDHA pavilion.
    Opinion

    It’s potty

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Word reaches Boots that DSDHA’s pavilion next to Tower Bridge is unlikely to survive the arrival of Squire & Partners’ Potters Fields development despite standing only a few months.

  • Opinion

    Out for a duck

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Determined to keep Test Match status, Warwickshire County Cricket Club is hoping to upgrade its Edgbaston ground.

  • Opinion

    Collecting can

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    Organisers of the charity Cycle to Cannes event have called for donations for this year’s 1,500km ride from London to Mipim as the recession has seen funding from commercial sponsorship halved.