All Opinion articles – Page 131

  • Opinion

    Setting the Yaya record straight

    2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

    RA Projects was recently short-listed for the BD Young Architect of the Year Award 2011 (News October 7).

  • Opinion

    Leave personal politics out of it

    2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

    I don’t give a flying fandango what political views Imre Makovecz held, and don’t think anyone but his clients should either.

  • Opinion

    Foster is on shaky ground

    2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster’s Jerusalem project sounds exciting (World News September 30), but there are reservations to participating in this scheme.

  • Opinion

    An elegy for Steve Jobs

    2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

    I was invited to Ron Herron’s office when he was given the first Apple Macintosh to play with, providing he would allow potential purchasers to view his work.

  • Arnulfpark in Munich
    Opinion

    Don't just follow the crowd

    2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Why does Building Design continue to promote dystopia?

  • Opinion

    Healthcare facilities need the best designers

    2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Just 40 years ago, in 1971, similar buildings to the Glasgow Maggie’s Centre (Buildings October 7) were built as “homes” for young disabled people then living out their lives in geriatric hospital wards.

  • Opinion

    Haven't we seen this before?

    2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

    To quote Jeremy Dixon on his Tatlin’s Tower sculpture (News October 14) “it’s an enduringly interesting monument that has only existed as rather obscure drawings and models in the past”.

  • Boots
    Opinion

    Stirling a turn-off

    2011-10-20T08:53:00Z

    Meanwhile the board might have to rethink its deal with the BBC’s Culture Show after dismal viewing figures for last week’s Stirling Prize showed the audience was almost half last year’s at 279,800.

  • Boots
    Opinion

    Roger and out

    2011-10-19T08:51:00Z

    Boots hears that Roger Zogolovitch has tendered his resignation of the RIBA Trust, the institute’s cultural arm, after failing to secure a special general meeting on its future.

  • Boots
    Opinion

    Nod from creator

    2011-10-17T09:01:00Z

    Those unconvinced by the new-look Park Hill Estate may want to read a letter in next month’s Architectural Review from its original architect Ivor Smith.

  • Opinion

    Locals oppose Aberdeen plans

    2011-10-14T09:29:00Z

    According to Malcolm Reading (Letters September 23), Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen is “an architectural accident that wasn’t planned”.

  • Opinion

    NHS can also put patients first

    2011-10-14T09:23:00Z

    I’m not sure about your conclusion that we need to take lessons from the UK private sector (“A private prescription for the NHS” Leader October 7).

  • Opinion

    Making light of Makovecz views

    2011-10-14T09:15:00Z

    I found your obituary of Imre Makovecz (Culture September 30) rather beguiling.

  • Opinion

    Better storage is key to living in smaller homes

    2011-10-14T09:14:00Z

    David Birkbeck makes some excellent points (Letters September 30).

  • Opinion

    Credit us for reviving Stratford

    2011-10-14T09:10:00Z

    It is a shame your feature on the emerging buildings in Stratford (Buildings September 23) disregarded the bigger picture of the achievement this group of buildings represents.

  • Opinion

    PQQ problems are clients' fault

    2011-10-14T09:05:00Z

    I can’t believe any client needs to spend £70,000 to assess something of this value, and the costs of pre qualification seem to be confused with those of tenders.

  • Robert Stern
    Opinion

    Semi-detached suburban Mr Stern

    2011-10-14T09:04:00Z

    In 1985 Robert Stern was telling the Polytechnic of Central London that the “true” path of architecture was to be found in the icons of suburbia

  • Ellis Woodman - editor
    Opinion

    Drifting away from the public

    2011-10-14T08:55:00Z

    The proposed floating park along the Thames looks to be weakening the public realm rather than adding to it

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    To dream the unbuildable dream …

    2011-10-14T08:50:00Z

    The glorious Dixon-Jones recreation, or reinvention, of Tatlin’s Tower in the courtyard of the Royal Academy is a reminder of just how haunting unbuilt projects are, or can be.

  • Pandora’s box
    Opinion

    Does the NPPF adequately define 'sustainability'?

    2011-10-14T08:39:00Z

    Yes, says Liz Peace, it’s time to stop arguing and get on with it; while Fiona Howie thinks the definition need to be made absolutely clear