All Opinion articles – Page 254

  • Opinion

    Let’s stop flogging this dead old horse

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Christmas store displays pastiche the past, but the here and now of real life is better, for architecture

  • Whose heritage is it anyway? Gazprom protestors in St Petersburg
    Opinion

    Does Unesco exert too much power over cities?

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Unesco is a threat to communities’ democratic wishes, argues Robert Adam, while Colin Amery believes it is an essential voice of sanity

  • Opinion

    Planning blight

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    A major factor in BD’s housing debate has only been mentioned in passing.

  • Opinion

    Being a bit dense

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Who wants to live in a tiny hermetically sealed plastic house with hi-tech detailing that will weather badly, be expensive to maintain, and so lose value (Debate December 7)?

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Year ends as it began – almost

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Eagerness to demolish Pimlico School, sits particularly poorly with the failure of new school designs to pass muster

  • Opinion

    Say it again

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Yvette Cooper’s announcement that £200 million is to be spent over five years remaking the Thames Gateway is good news.

  • Opinion

    Headlines you may have missed in 2007

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Ian Martin looks back at some of the more unusual headlines from 2007

  • Opinion

    Fight over Gazprom tower symbolises modern Russian politics

    2007-12-10T16:46:00Z

    As the row escalates over RMJM’s controversial tower, Elaine Knutt visits St Petersburg and discovers Gazprom is caught up in wider political battles

  • Forty something: Could Fosters’ books be well used as metaphorical building bricks?
    Opinion

    Tall storey

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Re: what to do with the Foster 40 tomes

  • John McAslan & Partners’ Oxford Street Zara fashion store.
    Opinion

    Retail

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Liverpool’s forthcoming Paradise Street redevelopment, plus Hammerson retail MD Jon Emery’s view of the sector

  • Opinion

    Piers pressure

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    As a retired conservation officer and history teacher, I disagree strongly with Piers Gough’s arrogant assertion that English Heritage should only deal with the past.

  • RTKL’s O2 Arena, Greenwich, east London.
    Opinion

    Sport and leisure

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Stadiums and other venues, including Wembley of course, and why RMJM sees potential in Kazakhstan

  • Opinion

    Just a minute

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Is “just 113 design reviews” (News November 30) enough for A&DS to “alter the status quo” in Scotland?

  • Opinion

    Invisible touch

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Cabe is still waiting to be bathed in the harsh spotlight of government scrutiny.

  • New Street Square, central London, by Bennetts Associates.
    Opinion

    Offices and interiors

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The buildings changing how we work, and Richard Baldwin of Davis Langdon on the credit crunch

  • The Kaleidoscope children’s health centre in Lewisham by van Heyningen & Haward Architects.
    Opinion

    Healthcare

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Rogers Stirk Harbour’s Maggie’s Centre at Charing Cross, plus Sylvie Pierce of Building Better Health

  • Opinion

    Going for Gold

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Comments from bdonline on the court order that a developer must rebuild an illegally demolished Erno Goldfinger house (News November 30)

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Who gains most from Tate gift?

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The government has given the Tate extension a cash boost, but which side really benefits from this generosity?

  • Smithfield General Market
    Opinion

    Something fishy

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Would Karl Renner (Letters November 23) like to explain how the General Market buildings at Smithfield are “deeply undistinguished”?

  • Opinion

    Housing must find room for regulation

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    With Callcutt’s reminder that business drives housebuilders, the government must act on space