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Venice Biennale needs more than wow factor
Koolhaas’s intellectual ambition could stave off extinction, writes Ellis Woodman
It’s green to think we can hit zero carbon
The housebuilding industry is just not ready for a 2016 deadline
Is the influx of foreign architects harming India’s built heritage?
Essential modernisation, or senseless globalisation?
Leak could be lowest point yet in sorry saga of RMJM
Is Jonathan French paying for telling his employers what they didn’t want to hear?
What we want for the British Pavilion
Vicky Richardson on the thinking behind the open call for ideas for 2014’s Venice Architecture Biennale
What is the point of architecture schools?
Architectural education needs a proper shake-up which needs to begin by putting more money into teaching, argues Will Hunter
Houses that used to be boozers - the musical?
Poet Luke Wright’s unusual ode has won fans at Bdonline
Architectural lighting in London
The ARC Show has collated Twitter submissions for the best photos of London’s lighting
Why BD doesn't offer unpaid internships
If you can’t afford to pay your interns then you can’t afford to have them, says Anna Winston
Improving elderly care is an opportunity, not a chore
Better-designed homes for the old would help ease housing pressures for all, says Amanda Baillieu
Liverpool is wasting this wasteland
The Festival Gardens’ riverside promenade is a depressingly lifeless place to stroll, says Gillian Darley
Should the skateboarder community have to move from the Southbank undercroft?
Campaigners have criticised plans to turn the Centre’s skate park into retail units as part of a £120m revamp
Arts centres must adapt to survive
Funding cuts will see more buildings follow the fate of The Public, says Ellis Woodman
Architects Registration Board: Know your place
An architect has been struck off for getting into debt. But is this really ‘professional misconduct’ to anyone other than the Lord Snootys of the profession?
We have the technology…
The burgeoning TMT sector is changing the face of London’s offices, says Amanda Baillieu
Flats don’t always need to be flattened
The refurbishment of Paris’s Tour Bois-le-Prêtre shows us how it could be done, says Owen Hatherley
Are architects being too optimistic about future work?
Do the figures really bear out the belief that things are looking up?
Punch drunk: how a museum took on an old pub and ended up on the ropes
Will Palin on lessons learned from Hackney’s shock refusal of Chipperfield’s Geffrye Museum extension
Our future heritage battles will be fought on Twitter
Battle over the Marquis of Lansdowne pub shows changes brought by social media, says Ellis Woodman
Farrell won’t set the Thames on fire
The latest plan for Convoys Wharf fails to address the development’s basic flaws, says Ellis Woodman
RIBA campaign is more heat than light
The housing crisis is about quality, not just dimensions says Hank Dittmar
Are architects doing enough to encourage housebuilding?
Get stuck in to property development, urges Dickon Robinson… bourgeois balderdash, says Simon Allford
Schools cost-cutting will be an education for us all
The real issues raised by the new PFI schools will become clear in the long term, says Amanda Baillieu
Good on paper
Architecture workshops that encourage intellectual debate should not be restricted to students and graduates
Space needs further exploration
The RIBA’s space standards campaign is failing to address the right targets, says Amanda Baillieu
The squeeze won’t ease any time soon
It will take more than EU rule changes to save architects from the hostility of our own government, says Denise Chevin
Is the RIBA doing enough for small practices?
A coherent voice for firms of all sizes, or not giving the underdogs the help they need?
Nurturing young talent is an investment in our future
The culture secretary’s call for the arts to earn their keep is shortsighted, says Amanda Baillieu
What can we learn from surveyors?
A spot of jury service for the RICS Building Awards reveals that some of them are actually quite civilised…
All together now
There’s no reason our built environment can’t be shared by pensioners and skateboarders
Curating our views of the city
Can the V&A help persuade a suspicious public of the importance of urban design?
We must learn to love our recent past
Changing tastes and the movement of history mean no building should be taken for granted
Should Eduardo Souto de Moura accept Israel’s Wolf Prize?
The Portuguese architect has been urged to boycott the $100,000 award
RIBA figures tell the truth about a divided profession
Benchmarking survey shows huge disparity between massive and micro practices
