Briefing – Page 45
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AnalysisCompetition entries soar as scrabble for work intensifies
Competition entries are up 40%, but the recession is making it even harder for small firms to get a break. Ruth Bloomfield reports
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AnalysisEducation, education, education...
…was New Labour’s mantra, but with the LSC’s college rebuilding plans in tatters, will the primary school programme fare any better?
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AnalysisPrince looks to past for the future
The Prince’s Foundation’s latest design aims to show that low-energy housing need not be the preserve of modernists. Will Hurst reports
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AnalysisStudents hit first by recession
Record numbers of graduates are chasing fast-disappearing jobs in recession-struck practices. Will Henley lends an ear
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AnalysisArchitects eye global markets
With money tight in the UK, practices are training their sights on potential work abroad
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AnalysisNew York architects and the credit crisis
BD’s News Editor Will Hurst takes a wry look at how Manhattan architects are coping with the credit crunch and visits the World Trade Centre site to be reminded that builders are builders everywhere.
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AnalysisRIBA’s half-term report
Sunand Prasad completes his first year as RIBA president this month. Liz Bury grades his progress in key subjects and outlines areas where he must do better
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AnalysisNew director Ichioka looks for firmer ground for the Architecture Foundation
After a turbulent year in which plans for its Zaha Hadid-designed HQ were scrapped, will a new director mean a different direction for the Architecture Foundation? Will Hurst reports
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News analysis: is the housing market collapsing around us?
The fall in house prices has prompted a dramatic downturn in commissions, with some architects facing redundancy. Will Henley looks at how practices are coping with the credit crunch, and what the long-term prospects may be
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AnalysisQuestioning the Oxford agenda
Heads of four architecture schools respond to to last week’s setting-out of the issues for next month’s Oxford Conference, and argue that sustainability is not the only game in town
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AnalysisArchitectural education: the 1958 Oxford Conference revisited
Architecture schools must meet the challenge of sustainability if they are to survive, delegates at July’s Oxford Conference will hear. This week, four leading figures — Susan Roaf, Christopher Alexander, Rab Bennetts and Steven Parissien — say why change is needed. Next week, the schools respond
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AnalysisWhy Gordon Brown and green don’t mix
The prime minister had high hopes for eco-towns, but Richard Rogers and others say the towns aren’t sustainable at all
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AnalysisCrack team rides in to save Olympic Village
Will the new line-up of heavy hitters brought in to run the 2012 Athletes’ Village help lift the project out of the doldrums? BD’s news desk reports
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AnalysisBD speaks to OMA partner Reinier de Graaf
Reinier de Graaf on the Delft University fire, his plans for the Commonwealth Institute and why Boris is good news for White City
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AnalysisLeon Krier talks sustainable architecture
The Prince of Wales’s architecture guru Leon Krier talks with Jules Lubbock about the environmental merits of traditional buildings
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AnalysisComing down to earth with a bump
After a spectacular opening, Rogers’ T5 descended into farce. But how much turbulence does it take to ground such a high-flying practice? asks Vikki Miller
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AnalysisNow that’s what Margaret Hodge calls architecture
The decision whether to list Robin Hood Gardens ultimately lies with the architecture minister, who took Liz Bury on a tour of buildings in her east London constituency
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AnalysisWill Jan Kaplicky’s Prague National Library make him a local hero?
Future Systems’ Jan Kaplicky talks to Liz Bury about the brouhaha over his winning library design for Prague
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Analysis‘It’s a great place to live, absolutely’
Local residents give their views of what it’s like to live in Robin Hood Gardens, one of the 20th century’s great housing estates. Depressing? Not at all, they tell Rory Olcayto
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AnalysisWho’s watching over Crossrail’s design?
The £16bn project to join east and west London by high-speed rail link is to go ahead, but doubts remain as to its architectural quality, reports Will Hurst