Voice of The Argus (October 25) states: "If Brighton and Hove rejects Gehry, it is doubtful whether other leading architects will want to design beautiful buildings to rival those of the past."

Sadly that could be about to happen.

The Architects' Journal for October 16 had a critical article on the Black Rock project entitled "Between a rock and a hard place" which was followed last week by an article entitled "Brighton skating on thin ice after controversial Black Rock decision".

The latter was published before the policy committee approved the decision to proceed with the ice skating arena.

With the ability to build any architectural form now made possible by computer aided manufacture, the architectural press appears to have reached saturation point in its coverage of such buildings and thus a sell-by date may have been reached.

Or I may have it totally wrong and it is just a question of the architectural press distancing itself from the many lottery projects failing financially because of falling visitor numbers.

A letter in The Argus (October 28) stating Gehry had not built tall buildings was wrong.

For example, in Prague there is his ten-storey "Fred & Ginger" office building, in Paris his eight or nine-storey American Centre and in Dusseldorf his Der Neue Zollhof office complex which rises in part to 15 or 16 stories.

-Peter Bareham, Hassocks