Chris Gilbert, spokesman for station site project manager QED, said architecture is a subjective matter (The Argus, February 6).

This idea is nonsense - it means anything is possible anywhere, at any time.

As it happens, Brighton and Hove already possesses an Indian-cum-Chinese concoction that is, after all, one of our most important architectural attractions.

However, the building in question was executed to the architectural programme of the Regency, a set of architectural ingredients and way of putting them together that all understood as providing a framework for thinking through which people could find common ground.

Anyone, therefore, who says architecture is subjective is announcing his or her ignorance.

A design company that employs such a person as its spokesman should not be in charge of a major city project.

Unfortunately, councillors and officers seem to be no better at understanding how architecture works as a way of giving meaning and definition to people's lives.

So, unless the developer sacks its design team and appoints a new one with better insight, whatever happens on the station site will not enhance the Brighton scene and will be unfit for a city wishing to be seen as the centre of European culture it was early in the 19th Century.

-Henry Law, Queens Gardens, Brighton