More Opinion – Page 264

  • Opinion

    Order, order

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    RIBA president Sunand Prasad usually boasts the silky skills of a politician.

  • Ashdown: don’t look up.
    Opinion

    Measuring up

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown was one of the high-profile figures to take advantage of the RIBA’s Ask an Architect stand at the party’s conference this week.

  • Quarantined: Savill Building.
    Opinion

    Foot in mouth

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Fans of Glenn Howells may be in for a wait to see the Birmingham architect’s Stirling Prize-shortlisted Savill Building.

  • Opinion

    In with the old

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    The trend for using architects in style magazines has spread, Boots is pleased to see.

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    An issue that is not black and white

    2007-09-20T20:03:00Z

    There are some very sound reasons why students should spend time studying the richness, diversity and ingenuity of non-western, non-white architecture, but to encourage more people from ethnic minorities to become architects is surely not one of them. Hopefully, people study architecture because, among other things, they want to learn ...

  • Opinion

    Show some respect: cut the clichés

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Meaningless archispeak is a lazy way to avoid a proper analysis of architecture

  • RMJM's masterplan for Leith docks is the largest planning application in Edinburgh's history.
    Opinion

    Should masterplans be made legally binding?

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Masterplans prevent developments from being hijacked, says David Page; no they don’t and we have enough legislation in this country, retorts Ben Derbyshire

  • Opinion

    Russian roulette

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    The Scots have always gone down well in St Petersburg — mainly thanks to architect Charles Cameron, the wandering Jock who designed several buildings for Catherine the Great in the city’s 18th century heyday.

  • Opinion

    Second rate

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Arb will no doubt be mulling over its future this week in the wake of confirmation that the Tories’ Quality of Life group is calling for it to be scrapped.

  • Office moves: all change at Slough’s Brunel roundabout.
    Opinion

    The Office view

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Imagine Slough and you imagine the long-suffering staff at Wernham Hogg, subjected daily to the antics of their boss David Brent in BBC sitcom The Office.

  • Opinion

    All at sea

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Jack Pringle must be in the doldrums.

  • Opinion

    My rug hell

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Followers of the saga of Studio Bednarski’s Persian rug will be relieved to know it is finally here.

  • Opinion

    Prize chumps

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    There was jubilation at the offices of Charlotte Skene-Catling when she was told her exquisite Dairy House was on the shortlist for the Stephen Lawrence Prize.

  • Opinion

    Class of ‘84: the way we were

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    How nice to see your picture of the group of us on the fire escape stair at Riverside Studios back in 1984 (Archive August 31).

  • Opinion

    Regional demand

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    It must be galling for the RIBA to see the scale of government funding paid to Cabe to perform a function which should have been kept in-house (News August 31).

  • Opinion

    Spaced out

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Will Hurst suggests the RIBA should focus its attention on housing and climate change as the key issues of the day (Leader August 31), but there is little point in doing so if it continues to ignore the fundamental cause of the housing crisis, namely mass immigration.

  • Opinion

    Credit control

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    It was disingenuous of Pascall & Watson and the Ingram Consultancy to attempt to steal the limelight on St Pancras International (Solutions September 7). Their joint role in the project has been much less significant than they might wish others to believe.

  • Opinion

    Great minds?

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    We were interested to see Clash Associates’ proposal for a hotel at Lower Marsh near Waterloo (First Look September 7).

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    Towards a carbon-intolerant architecture

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Ian Martin presents a zero-carbon roundup of carbon

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Tories seize the green agenda

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    The Tories are trying hard to grab the green initiative, but the public remains unconvinced it is being heard