All Opinion articles – Page 76

  • Opinion

    Backwards step

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    You reported that RIBA president Ruth Reed had refused to condemn low payers (News March 19)

  • Dreams of our fathers: Liverpool playhouse extension.
    Opinion

    Credit where due

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    I read James Soane’s article on the Liverpool Playhouse (Inspiration March 12) with pride and similarity of experience

  • Opinion

    We don’t just plump cushions

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Ed Hollis writes (Opinion March 19) that interior design “lacks a body of sufficient scale and authority to protect and articulate their interests”. This is both inaccurate and untrue

  • Opinion

    Get off the fence

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    As a recent part II graduate myself, I don’t see how the RIBA can allow such low pay

  • Opinion

    Keep up the fight

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    There are three good reasons why Robin Hood Gardens should not be demolished

  • Opinion

    Needing unity

    2010-03-26T00:00:00Z

    I was saddened to read that some practices are offering young architects dangerously long hours and salaries that fail to meet the minimum wage (News March 12)

  • Opinion

    Cheap labour

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    During the last major downturn I applied for a job advertised for a part II architect. During the interview I was told that my role would involve mostly dealing with the public on the telephone

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    A review of Farshid Moussavi’s book The Function of Form (Culture March 5) incorrectly described Moussavi as a former partner in Foreign Office Architects

  • Opinion

    Devaluing the profession

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    In the summer I had an interview with James Parritt, who claimed Parritt Leng had plenty of work and was not feeling the recession like other practices, contrary to partner Kuan Leng’s comments (News March 12)

  • Opinion

    Ease planning

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s leader berates developers for not getting on with developing derelict brownfield sites

  • Opinion

    Getting the hump

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s BD featured a large photograph of a Children’s Centre in Barnes (Works March 12)

  • Opinion

    Living proof

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    What a shame that Austin Williams (Debate March 5) uses environmental awareness as a negative point in the future of the architectural profession

  • Opinion

    Marriage value

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Katie Wilmot (Letters March 12) should relax. Architecture is being served by the use of 66 Portland Place for weddings and other non-RIBA functions

  • Teletubby play humps: Patel Taylor’s Children’s Centre.
    Opinion

    Men of vision

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    It is with great sadness that I read last week about the deaths of two of architecture’s greatest minds: Bruce Graham and Raimund Abraham (News March 12)

  • Opinion

    No to Battersea

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Your story “Cabe backing fuels Viñoly Battersea application” (News March 26) quotes Cabe director of design Diane Haigh saying: “we have reviewed [the proposals] six times… this has resulted in a strong scheme which Cabe is confident will be a success”!

  • Opinion

    Classic error

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    In case BD readers think I have gone mad, I most certainly did not write “Paternoster Square never goes away, it has the longest pedigree of all the styles” in your 40th anniversary celebration

  • Opinion

    Let’s draw a veil over this idea

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Much like Jonathan Glancey (March 5) I was shocked when made aware of the proposals to partly transform the RIBA into a “wedding venue” (News February 26)

  • Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre.
    Opinion

    No entrance?

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    With reference to your article on Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne (Works March 5), the bottom left photograph on page 28 is subtitled “A freestanding canopy marks the entrance at the centre of the plan”

  • Opinion

    Object lessons

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Re “Cabe told assessors to destroy scores” (News February 26), I have experienced a similar practice of being required to return sheets with scores and notes at meetings called to consider submissions for public art projects

  • Opinion

    Out of the picture

    2010-03-12T00:00:00Z

    As an archivist I find you bring a very salutary element of architectural reality into a very large architectural archive where “modern” mainly refers to the 1930s-1960s