All Opinion articles – Page 116
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OpinionShell Centre plan is too crowded
Plans for the Shell Centre (News 25 May) represent a considerable overdevelopment, crowding Howard Robertson’s elegant classical tower and blocking river views from the new public square.
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OpinionBig meetings like big budgets belong in the past
Big meetings don’t happen where there is real leadership. This is lacking in the schools sector, which has been allowed to drift
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OpinionWhat we can learn from Astley Castle
The Landmark Trust’s scheme shows a way forward for ruined buildings across the country
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OpinionDo young practices benefit from design contests?
Yes, says Robert Sakula, they give power back to designers; while Tomas Stokke says we need to look to Scandinavia’s healthier competition culture
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OpinionBomber Command memorial desecrates Green Park
Liam O’Connor’s unsuitable scheme has none of the dignity of Lutyens’ Cenotaph
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OpinionDishing the dirt about architects
Boots on the Royal Academy, Helsinki Library and dirty carpets
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OpinionHeatherwick, the architect?
Ellis Woodman finds Heatherwick’s V&A show to be full of engagingly daft ideas
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OpinionKensington a right royal mess
Last bank holiday (miserable and rainy) my wife and I decided to cheer ourselves up by visiting the newly refurbished Kensington Palace to check out quite how the £12 million had been spent (Buildings May 18).
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OpinionSchools muddle is a huge failure
I found Michal Cohen’s (Debate May 25) defence of Michael Gove’s school-building strategy a rather weak apology, especially compared with the straightforward account by Yasmin Shariff.
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OpinionCompetitions do test design skill
Your leader (May 25) on why competitions won’t solve procurement problems for small practices completely misses the point, which is that the thing that differentiates a useful architect from a not-so-good one is that the former knows the trick of using design to solve a client’s problems.
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OpinionBim overlay is for everyone
I would like to clarify a few points raised by architects and readers of BD regarding the RIBA’s new Bim Overlay to the Plan of Work (Letters May 25).
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OpinionTime to change the guard at Buckingham Palace
Sixty years of regal indifference to architecture have left a rather doubtful legacy
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OpinionWhy leftists should look back in anger
Yes, the left is lacking an urban vision, but the past few decades have left it with few means to develop one
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OpinionA marriage of convenience?
Not all practices can move easily into a foreign country, but Pringle Brandon found a way
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OpinionWill Elizabeth II leave a worthy built legacy?
As the Queen’s Jubilee approaches, Piers Gough and Francis Terry square up over the current monarch - is she an architectural friend or foe?
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OpinionHodder lacks the glamour needed
The RIBA needs to actively solicit a president who will satiate the media’s desire for glamour, celebrity and sound bites.
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OpinionPavilion fails test of usefulness
I am sorry, John McAslan, but good architecture is not all about revelation and innovation (Debate May 18).
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OpinionIs school choice unattainable?
Given that the green paper on special educational needs and disability states that disabled children and those with SEN can have the right to seek a place at any school how can the government possibly build schools for this reduced amount? (Leader May 18)
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OpinionRIBA bim overlay missed the point
Why were no small or medium-sized practices consulted for the RIBA’s bim overlay for the Plan of Work? (News May 18)