Kieran Gaffney's Comments
Comment on: George Oldham found guilty of misconduct over ‘ethnics’ email
“Conduct which falls short of the standard required of a registered person” In my view his conduct did fall short of the standard required. His e-mail was embarrassing. Calling someone ethnic is not the same as calling someone short, ethnic has a pejorative association I'm sure this is clear. That said I do find the ARB to be rather heavy handed and not sure it needs to chasing around after people like this. I fully agree with Jasmin Shariff on the language of the old boys club, ridiculous that these clauses are not gender neutral.
Comment on: Do it for the profession: Architects and designers fill in this AJ survey
some slightly skewed questions in there, not sure it would pass muster as an academic study!
Comment on: Hadrian’s Wall visitor centre contest opens
*EDIT* I contacted the organisers and this project value is not £300K but £5.7M, misleading notice and AJ might want to alter wording above but it appears the architects fees are £300K. Obviously BIM is sensible at £6M scale.
Comment on: Hadrian’s Wall visitor centre contest opens
Well said Andrew Budd. Everything was looking good on the project, all the rights words and approach until the BIM requirements. £300K is a small house size why on earth is BIM and 3+ examples a requirement for this?
Comment on: AJ exclusive: Doolan prize 2011 shortlist unveiled
I enjoyed Rory's polemic, most of which may well be true, but comparing the Small Animal Hospital with Zumthor's Kulumba Museum is plain unfair. Hardly anything bares comparison with Zumthor's work. The small animal hospital isn't fantastic in my opinion but it could compete with a few previous Stirling winners and when you compare it to some of the Stirling shortlist in recent years you would have to say it could have been shortlisted. Then take the fact that the small animal hospital is probably one of the weaker winners of the Doolan prize and there is an argument that a few Scottish builings are missing out. I've just flicked through the previous winners list and buildings like An Turas by Sutherland Hussey (a building zumthor would be proud of) and the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney by Reich and Hall should definately have been on the list. The Scottish Parliament is probably the only project that should have and did win the Stirling prize so the RIBA judges are not getting it totally wrong. Rory's other comment is the list is too long. I agree but in a way this is propoganda: promoting architects in Scotland and the 13 (eek!) practices will get nothing but good things from being on it. The RIAS doing their job?
Comment on: Jason Lee House, Redbridge, London, by Peter Barber Architects
edit: As usual the range of pictures on the online version is better than in the printed article...
Comment on: Jason Lee House, Redbridge, London, by Peter Barber Architects
I was a bit dissapointed in the pictures / description of this project which focused on the old modernism debate. What I think is extraordinary are the tools used to integrate what is actually a very large building into a small scale residential street and would have liked to see an arial picture / images from accross the street. It looks to me that the sensitivity to scale of this project is brilliant.
Comment on: Plans submitted for £1bn Scottish 'Poundbury'
I like image 3 of the village square and I think it looks pretty Scottish. No doubt huge controversy but good design is good deisgn and style is irrelevant
Comment on: Surge in applications for home extensions
oops - if you click on the image it says "Cox House extension project in Camden, London by John Glew Architect"
Comment on: Surge in applications for home extensions
I think you should include image / architect credits with this article.
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