All Opinion articles – Page 301

  • Opinion

    Design panels need some new faces

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Each week, it seems, another commission or panel is set up to advise on the fraught issue of design.

  • Opinion

    Creating ghettos

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    What was the Westminster Housing Commission thinking, or rather, not thinking of? (News September 15). Westminster has a small resident population and relies on other boroughs for its manpower.

  • Opinion

    Corrections

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Amendments to last weeks Building Design

  • Conran: grand but not old enough.
    Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    This week from Concrete Boots

  • Opinion

    DSDHA not bitter

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    It seems to me that your enthusiastic salvo across the bows of the GLA’s Architecture & Urbanism Unit has gone wide of the mark.

  • Opinion

    Bird solution

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Further to your article on “Watch the Birdie” (News August 11), we can offer a few tried and tested methods of avoiding birds perching on buildings and the inevitable mess.

  • Opinion

    AUU did not give East an easy ride

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Your article “Design jobs for the boys?” (News Analysis September 15) misrepresents and miscontextualises my comments.

  • Opinion

    Why foot Arb bill?

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    The debate revolves around the agreement by the board to at last systematically address one of its core functions (and the one which made the retention of registration attractive to the profession in 1997). That is protection of title. But why should protection of title be established at the cost ...

  • Opinion

    A good childhood is about place-making

    2006-09-22T00:00:00Z

    This week sees the launch of Good Childhood?

  • Opinion

    Zoo views

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    I have been involved with exhibit design at Chester Zoo and feel Mike Guppy’s views (Letters September 8) are slightly outdated.

  • Opinion

    Like with like

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    I’d like to add a footnote to the “Wales is mediocre” debate (Letters September 1 and 8) with some facts: Wales’s population is 3 million; England’s is 50 million.

  • Opinion

    Listen to Israelis

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    The frequency of anti-Israeli articles and rants in BD is increasing, turning it into a platform for Abe Hayeem and Ian Martin’s Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, whose aim is to demonise and delegitimise Israel.

  • Opinion

    Ruling is an insult

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    If the RIBA ever wanted to know why so few people vote in elections or why they feel so unhappy and disenfranchised, it need look no further than the appalling setting-up of various registers for accreditation it keeps endorsing.

  • Broadway Malyan’s sailing innovations.
    Opinion

    Sinking feeling

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan’s image (News September 8) packed in the ugliest collection of 35-storey lumps you’re likely to see on SkyscraperPage.com.

  • Opinion

    Drawing the line

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    We were saddened to read (News August 25) that student drawings may have been binned by the RIBA and not returned to their authors.

  • Opinion

    Venice lessons don’t tell whole story

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Anyone in Venice last week for the opening of the biennale might think they were witnessing a defining moment: the moment when architects were forced to admit defeat and confess they no longer had any answers to the problem of cities.

  • Opinion

    Delivering value

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest your piece on PFI budget cuts (News August 25).

  • Opinion

    Correction

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    The client of St George’s Bloomsbury (Works September 1) should have been the Parochial Church Council of St George’s Church, Bloomsbury.

  • Ian Martin
    Opinion

    The story of Cinderella

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Cinderella fantasised about finding a partner with whom she could practise happily ever after

  • Opinion

    Concrete Boots

    2006-09-15T00:00:00Z

    This week form Concrete Boots