All Opinion articles – Page 90

  • Any port in a storm
    Opinion

    Sea change for Southampton

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Southampton is a sad city, as described by Owen Hatherley (Urban Trawl February 6), and I would like to see a similar article on Liverpool.

  • Opinion

    Courtesy title

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    It is bad enough having the media routinely ignoring the terms of the Architects’ Registration Act and calling any old plansmith an architect without you doing the same in your story about the Prince of Wales’s “Surfbury” development (News February 6).

  • Cedric Price with... Michael, Rolf or Robert?
    Opinion

    Mystery deepens

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The mystery man next to Cedric Price (Archive February 6) looks like a young Michael Brawne.

  • Claude St Arrowman sent BD this photo of a new-build mud house at Dartington in Devon.
    Opinion

    Mud lark

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey might like to know that construction using mud and earth (“Building with mud, glorious mud”, February 6) is alive and well in north-east Yorkshire. I am currently restoring buildings of rubble stone bound with mud. These date from the late 17th century, so have stood the test of ...

  • Opinion

    Seeing the light

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    It’s scary to find out that we have something else to worry about other than the impending worldwide collapse of the architectural profession and its client base — the loss of the 100W incandescent light bulb.

  • Opinion

    Test of time

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    Our scheme in Southampton’s French Quarter, mentioned in your feature last week, offers truly mixed uses, mixed tenure and tenure-blind accommodation. It also supports commercial office and retail, sheltered and affordable rented accommodation, shared ownership and outright sale homes — the sale units have all sold faster than other similar ...

  • Opinion

    League analysis

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Schosa acknowledges there are many legitimate ways of analysing the data emerging from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise

  • US embassy to be fortress
    Opinion

    Let’s rethink US embassy plans

    2009-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Even with the enormity of the economic struggles that lie before him, I hope President Obama and his team can find time to address one small yet important issue: how does America project its ideals in the capital cities of the world?

  • Opinion

    Stone me

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Stonehenge was given to the nation in the 19th century on the condition that it be freely accessible to us all. But the authorities now regard it as a capital asset to be exploited for profit

  • Opinion

    Women’s work

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Do you, like me, ever sit at your desk and wonder where the boundaries of your duties lie, or even whether our clients comprehend the task we have to do?

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    AOC teaches at London Metropolitan University, not Leeds, as stated in Debate, December 5.

  • Opinion

    Offence will lose RIBA members

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Last week I received a letter from the president of the RIAS outlining the RIBA’s intention to increase subscriptions by 3% and asking for the views of the profession in Scotland. I am not in favour.

  • Opinion

    Time to think

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Carolyn Steel (Opinion December 5) raises an important question ignored for the past decade: how to improve derelict real estate and retain the community hub within it.

  • Opinion

    Design advice is key to planning

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Glancey’s suggestion (November 28) about setting up design training oriented towards planning would be beneficial in the long term

  • Opinion

    Design for all

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    As an aged architect-planner, I was heartened to hear your call for the borough architect to be brought back.

  • Opinion

    Back to panels

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    You suggest that “a huge cheer greeted the latest review of the planning system” (Leader November 28). I am not sure who from!

  • Opinion

    No call for change

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Parliament Square (Solutions December 5) is already a very fine pedestrian space, skilful in its design, masterplan and detailed elements

  • Opinion

    Square deal?

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    So why didn’t Boris say full steam ahead on Parliament Square?

  • Opinion

    Flexible friend

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    In my search for architectural work I followed the advice of David Gloster and others (Analysis October 24)

  • Parliament Square: already pedestrianised.
    Opinion

    Local heroes

    2008-12-12T00:00:00Z

    May I add my voice to that of Ealing Council’s Gavin Leonard (Letters December 5) in extolling the virtues of the local authority in-house architecture department