We’re not in danger of losing our architecture – we are in danger of losing our imagination.

We have woken up to the need to preserve Regency squares, Victorian terraces and even the rare examples of 1930s modernism but we’re terrified of anything new.

We don’t seem to have the money, the courage or the vision for Frank Gehry or Piers Gough.

This is a national problem, exacerbated by tub-thumping from some very senior figures, but wouldn’t it be lovely for Brighton to buck the trend?

How I agree with Adam Trimingham (The Argus, March 26) and how sad to lose the opportunities presented by the Royal Alexandra development and the Jubilee Library?

Could we imagine IM Pei’s glass triangle, which sits in front of The Louvre in Paris, ever being constructed here?

It is a masterpiece of modern thinking, in brilliant contrast to a medieval palace.

Let’s have an architectural competition for new thinking at Black Rock, Toads Hole Valley and the Old Bingo Hall and let’s think outside of a glass and concrete box.

Louise Schweitzer, Langdale Gardens, Hove