More Opinion – Page 225
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OpinionDoes traditional architecture still have a place in Britain?
Yes, it’s sustainable and a pleasure to draw, says Francis Terry; while Ian Wroot argues that we cannot return to simpler times
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..or habitual prejudice?
All traditionalists must be grateful for the editor’s call for balance. It is interesting, however, to see that the editorial itself is a concise sample of habitual professional prejudice.
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Checking criteria
I was disturbed to read that it will be a requirement for local authorities to report on the design quality of new housing by marking performance against Cabe’s set of 20 criteria (News August 29).
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Murphy’s law
Perhaps Richard Murphy has spent so long “building down back lanes or in people’s back gardens” that he has lost sight of the rare characteristics that make Edinburgh such an inappropriate location for ego-driven architecture (Solutions, September 5).
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Power surge
Heathrow is indeed too bossy by half (Jonathan Glancey, September 5). Apart from anything else, a flight path over Greater London has always been close to madness on safety grounds.
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Height of fame
When illustrating A Rich Harvest (Culture September 5) with the BT Tower, it was amiss of Liz Bury not to attribute the building design to the late Eric Bedford, chief architect of the Ministry of Works.
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Costly Hadid
When are you going to learn that commissioning a Zaha Hadid building (News September 5) always produces the same tale of a rising budget for an overambitious, “iconic” structure?
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OpinionDesign wobble?
Has anyone else noticed that flicking from the Practice page to the Archive picture (BD September 5) gives a good indication of the extent to which a designer’s responsibilities have changed… even if the bottom of the ladder is “adequately secured”?Bryan Scott, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
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Honour bound?
Norman Foster is doing his bit for the reputation of British architects as rude no-shows when he failed to turn up to a select gathering, including Ian McEwan and Nobel prizewinner Martin Evans, at University College London last week, where he was due to pick up an honorary degree.
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OpinionWorld in action
In the run-up to the opening of the Venice Biennale, the Giardini has been a hive of activity over past weeks.
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Naked truth
An architect couple in India have enraged a man in his sixties to such an extent that he performed an extraordinary naked protest in court this week.
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OpinionGet Agrippa
One resident among the herds who flocked to Westminster council’s hearing on Chelsea Barracks last Thursday night was quick to point out the link between mayor Boris Johnson and his adviser “Agrippa”, aka Richard Rogers (pictured).
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OpinionThe Venice Biennale has become reflection of the state architecture is in
It may be unfair to compare the most important and expensive scientific experiment the world has ever known with a two-month-long architecture extravaganza, but the real cultural event of this week was not the opening of the Venice Biennale but the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider.
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OpinionThe broken heart of east Greenwich
What used to be Greenwich District Hospital is now a vast, overgrown wasteland
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OpinionBritish Council/BD survey: Is the UK in a state of housing crisis?
Housing in Britain is never far from the headlines – and it is under the spotlight again in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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OpinionUnesco is right to be worried
I am delighted that Koïchiro Matsuura has visited Edinburgh and put brakes on the Caltongate project (News August 29).
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OpinionSean’s seminary
Some may be disappointed that Sean Connery’s new memoir, Being a Scot, doesn’t dish any Hollywood dirt, but Boots was much more interested to read his thoughts on architecture.
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OpinionDog dinner
Calling all hot dog lovers! Architects at CZWG are limbering up for a hot dog eating championship, happening during the interval of a drive-in screening of Pulp Fiction at Abergavenny Food Festival.
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Wholly Trinity
I enjoyed your piece on Rodney Gordon (News August 29). As a new student of architecture, I attended a premier of Get Carter in Newcastle hours after visiting the Trinity Centre.