More Opinion – Page 251

  • Opinion

    Made for walking

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Daniel Libeskind and his wife Nina have revealed more about their penchant for “ranch chic”, including the rather off-putting fact that for the past five years Danny has worn nothing on his feet except a single pair of cowboy boots.

  • Opinion

    Network news

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Boots went to help Make Architects celebrate its fourth birthday with a packed-to-the-gunnels party in its half-finished 55 Baker Street office redevelopment last week.

  • Opinion

    What’s at stake as SMC’s new master takes the reins?

    2008-01-31T18:19:00Z

    Ironshield will be looking for high returns as a reward for the risk it has taken on

  • Exclusive: Foster’s Masdar
    Opinion

    What a sauce

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Boots' attention was drawn to an amazing piece of PR, sorry, journalism, about Foster's latest "zero-carbon city" in last Monday's Guardian.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Sharks lurk in ethical waters

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Artistic freedom, at a profit, can be a powerful pull over principles on human rights. Where do you draw the line?

  • Opinion

    The art of making a quality judgment

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    If quality is to be judged rather than measured, the government must be ready to step beyond public opinion

  • Does Edge Zip group’s entry to this year’s Europan for a site in Sheffield have any chance of being built?
    Opinion

    Is Europan a real opportunity for architects in the UK?

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Patently no, since no Europan entries have been built in England, says David Birkbeck; while Nick Johnson is confident that the tide is turning

  • Leicester: true masterwork
    Opinion

    We must save Leicester

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    I first visited Leicester University’s Engineering Building in 1974 with some friends when we were students.

  • Opinion

    Sick joke

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    The idea that Stirling & Gowan’s Leicester Engineering Building might be demolished or radically altered (News January 18) would be like inflicting the same punishment on Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp or Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum.

  • Opinion

    Safe in our hands

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Shepheard Epstein Hunter is preparing Leicester University’s development framework plan due to be published this year, a masterplan that will allow it to grow significantly. We have spent many hours in conversation with people at all levels of the university, and with many external stakeholders.

  • Opinion

    Bad counsel

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    I am appalled at the thought that planning appeals for smaller applications could be given to local councillors to decide (News January 18).

  • Opinion

    Tate grates

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    May I add my support to Ivor Hall (Letters January 11) since I agree with all he says about this illogical and pretentious design for the Tate Modern extension.

  • Blind spot: The Pod’s neighbour
    Opinion

    Drawn a blank

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    I leave it for others to judge how extraordinarily Benson & Forsyth’s The Pod in Nottingham has been “shaped in response to the world around it” (Works, January 18).

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Our news item last week on Headingly pavilion referred to the involvement of SMC Gower Archtects.

  • Opinion

    Ken and the AA

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    It’s not been a good week for Ken Livingstone, with probes into the LDA funding of projects, and Channel 4’s The Court of Ken on Monday.

  • Opinion

    Home and away

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    First on the list of architecture’s luvvies who signed a letter to the Guardian lamenting cuts to the British Council, funder of the biennale’s British pavilion, was ex-Design Museum boss Alice Rawsthorn, now on the board of the Arts Council — which has almost entirely dropped its architecture programme, and ...

  • Opinion

    Bonus claims

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    The battle for Foster & Partners’ proposed “penny whistle” tower in the London suburb of Ealing moved to the local paper, the Ealing & Acton Gazette, last week, with a claim on its front page that the 40-storey skyscraper will cast a “TV broadcast shadow across a huge swathe of ...

  • Opinion

    Inquiry clubbed

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Levity is lightening proceedings at the Smithfield Inquiry, it seems.

  • Liverpool: is AFL on the bench?
    Opinion

    Transfer window

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    It’s well known that Liverpool football club’s US owners have doubts about manager Rafael Benítez, but now they seem to be having second thoughts about the flagship new stadium by HKS too.

  • Opinion

    Don’t just think big, think mega

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    This week Jonathan Glancey thinks bigger than big — mega, even