Charles Wunderman draws attention to the comments of Sir Richard Rogers and to Frank Gehry's design misgivings over his King Alfred plans (Letters, October 19). But there is more.

In The Sunday Times (September 11) Gehry also drew attention to the fact the Government's all-powerful Commission for Architecture in the Built Environment (Cabe) forced him to lower the height of the main tower when "we discovered it was more expensive to build taller because of ground conditions on the shoreline". Gehry added he found that "comforting".

The Save Hove organisation has learned of a previous attempt to build an underground car park at the King Alfred leisure centre but which was aborted after it flooded, requiring a rowboat to be used in it.

Wasn't there a figure of £30 million quoted in The Argus recently as the cost of building the foundations? How wasteful. A lot of housing could be built for that amount of money.

But there is more to suggest Gehry is uneasy about being Cabe's dogsbody.

In The Times (October 7), he said: "... Cabe asked me to make the King Alfred development more colourful. It's a little bit too much now for my taste but I'm told people in Brighton love it".

The Argus (September 7) wrote: "It is probably fair to say the designs for the King Alfred would have been laughed into the sea long ago had it not been for the reputation of Frank Gehry". That turns out to have been a prescient remark.

Who is designing this "landmark" architecture, anyway? Frank Gehry or Cabe?

During the current consultation phase for the planning application, many people will be considering whether it is a good or bad design and will base their comments about it on this aspect of the development.

Knowing it is not purely a Frank Gehry design might liberate people's objectivity, which evaporates when they become star-struck.

-Valerie Paynter, Save Hove