More Opinion – Page 249

  • Opinion

    Cold comfort

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    The detailing around the windows on O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Killiney house (Works February 8) shows appalling attention to cold bridging.

  • Opinion

    Pound stretcher

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    So the expenses of Arb board members have reached £94,000 a year (News February 8) — so what?

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    In last week’s First Look project, we misspelt the name of the practice Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects.

  • Opinion

    Slip of paper

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Drawings by the late Sandy Wilson, on show at Pallant House in Chichester, provide an interesting footnote to one of the more entertaining architectural rows of recent times.

  • Opinion

    Grateful Ted

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    At his Gold Medal dinner at the RIBA this week, Ted Cullinan said he was delighted to receive the award at such a young age.

  • Opinion

    Honour bound

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    An interview with Cullinan by the RIBA’s Tony Chapman reveals his view on honours generally, and which he rates most highly.

  • Opinion

    On the left bank

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Who ever knew architectural big beast Richard Rogers could be so humble?

  • Opinion

    Dot to Dot: Answer 08 February 2008

    2008-02-14T00:00:00Z

    Here is the answer to last weeks dot to dot.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Prince lands near the spot

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles has reignited public debate on architecture, but defining zero carbon is the key to any discussion.

  • Opinion

    It’s a belly flop...

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    From the way the ODA organised the Aquatics Centre project, there was a terrible inevitability about the dire final design (News February 1).

  • Opinion

    ...or worse

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Oh dear! What on earth has happened to the Aquatics Centre? In 2006, it became a giant panty liner.

  • Opinion

    Just stop stating the bleeding obvious

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Clichés, Saul? Tell me about it. I’m literally sick of them.

  • Charles: more measured views, or is he still on the same track?
    Opinion

    Do you welcome Prince Charles’s latest blast?

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    It’s good to see the prince embracing sustainbility, says Rab Bennetts; while Michael Manser laments that Charles still doesn’t understand how architects work

  • Opinion

    Ethics: what can you change?

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Those of us who appealed to our fellow architects in Israel not to collude in constructing illegal settlements in the occupied territories were attacked — as you said — for not publicly taking an ethical stance in arguably more unjust situations (Leader January 25).

  • Opinion

    Market forces

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    You report that KPF’s scheme to demolish the western end of Smithfield General Market has won support from Chetwood, Aedas and ORMS (News February 1).

  • Opinion

    Public disgrace

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The sad saga of The Public (Solutions February 1) actually started in late 1994 when a team led by Rivington Street Studio won the competition to carry out a feasibility study.

  • Opinion

    Planning fright

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    As long time chairman of a district council planning committee, I see the proposal for councillors to determine planning appeals for small developments (News January 18) as absurd.

  • Leo: planner didn’t swallow it.
    Opinion

    Once bitten...

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    We note with interest your Archive story (February 1) relating to our design for a lion’s cage.

  • Opinion

    Dot to dot: Answer 01 February 2008

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Here is the answer to last weeks dot to dot.

  • Opinion

    Housing crisis

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Rumour has it that the theme of this year’s British pavilion at the architecture biennale is the dreadful quality of our housing.