All Letters to the editor articles – Page 24
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Opinion
Give credit for Vauxhall plans
The mayor’s planning team has laboured hard to produce a planning framework for the Vauxhall, Nine Elms, Battersea opportunity area.
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OpinionBim raises issues of continuity
What happens in the bim process if the project is shelved or taken over?
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OpinionGarden cities are not the answer
We need to look at history to advise us on the wisdom of development potentials.
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OpinionThurley fails to list city gems
Speaking about the decision not to list Broadgate (News June 24), Simon Thurley is reported as saying “The City… has just one listed building from the [post-war] period: [former Financial Times HQ] Bracken House.”
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OpinionFoundations of a solid career
How familiar it was to read Michael Gold’s response (Life Classes, July 1) to the question “What got you started?” (“School and parents saying there was no future in being an artist”). I embarked on a lifetime of architecture in the same way.
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OpinionThe missing link in cladding
Your potted history of cladding systems (CPD July 8) omits a critical pioneer: Michael Pearson of Charles B Pearson Son & Partners who designed Burne House telecommunications centre just off the Westway in London.
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OpinionLet’s cultivate our garden cities
The lessons from garden cities could apply to communities in large cities as well as new towns (“Give us a new generation of garden cities!” bdonline July 11).
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OpinionShuttleworth is not alone in working with others
Reading Steven Johnson, especially his latest book, it becomes clear that, in science, the concept of the Eureka “moment” is mistaken. The same must be true of the lone-author notion in architecture, at least for large complex projects (“Row over Gherkin’s ’creator’” News July 8).
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Opinion
Planning reform is force for good
The Town & Country Planning Association’s Hugh Ellis seems to be under the impression that architects exist solely to serve the planning system, and planners “control” quality (“Ex presidents urge RIBA to back planning reform” News July 1).
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OpinionBennetts’ assumptions don’t stand up to scrutiny
Mecanoo built its reputation on a certain degree of originality and innovation, replies Robert Slinger.
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Opinion
Plymouth: a port in a storm
No one pays much attention to Plymouth, so, to a native, Owen Hatherley’s survey (Urban Trawl June 24) was very welcome.
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Opinion
Cost constraints have saved London’s fabric
This week’s opening of the M74 extension project (“Urban mortorway divides Glasgow” June 24) finally sees the completion of Glasgow’s inner-city orbital motorway.
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OpinionThe truth behind invalid carriages
Steve Parnell’s witty image of a “super-sized Matchbox collection” (Buildings June 24 ) for the motor-cars stuck on the Riverside Museum’s wall is brilliant.
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Opinion
9/11 conspiracy is a no-brainer
Frankly, I do not see what the fuss is all about with reference to your front page cover story this week (“RIBA comes under fire for hosting ’bonkers’ 9/11 talk”).
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Opinion
Too much effort given to too few
Ed Hollis’s epiphany on ordinary buildings (“Too much novelty leaves us nowhere” Opinion June 17) struck a chord with me. Over the past decade a disproportionate amount of architectural thought and effort seems to have gone into a few special buildings at the expense of the bulk of everyday ones ...
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Opinion
Tory policies are costing us dear
The removal of architects from local and central government was a false economy which was predicted.
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Opinion
Loss of plot ratio controls denies man’s need of light
The elimination of plot ratio limits on developments in the City means that any building designed in conformity with the former limits, however good, is liable for redevelopment since all can now be seen as under-using their sites.
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Opinion
Listing will boost loved Hallfield
As a long-standing resident of the Hallfield Estate, I had to respond to D Ingram (Letters June 17).
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OpinionDetail is the star at Lyric Belfast
How refreshing to see a building that combines care, sophistication and good neighbourliness (Lyric Theatre, Belfast Buildings June 17).