All Columnists articles – Page 12
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OpinionContinuity or contrast: take your pick
A visit to Beijing reveals three different approaches to the question of context
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OpinionThe RIBA must listen to members’ fee concerns
Nearly two thirds of architects want the institute to bring back fee scales
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OpinionJoin Canning Town’s Caravanserai
Ash Sakula’s competition is a great opportunity for an emerging practice
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OpinionThe most ruthless restoration in history
Mies van der Rohe’s Tugendhat Villa has been eerily cleansed of its past
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OpinionNow it’s clear that the fee situation is out of control
Sanctuary’s fee terms mark a low point in the value housing associations put on design
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OpinionThe Walkie-Talkie is sending out a disturbing message
The City’s most recent arrival highlights the need for a better balance between the needs of developers and our urban landscape
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OpinionModernism has lost a sense of purpose
Modern architecture needs to rediscover its original ideas about social context
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OpinionWhen heritage becomes a dirty word
Alan Bennett’s new play voices a forceful objection to the habit of reducing historic buildings to objects of spectacle
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OpinionUCL’s Stratford plans must strike a delicate balance
Negotiations over the university’s scheme for a Carpenters Estate campus should look to King’s Cross as an example
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OpinionCan cities be stormproof by design?
Hurricane Sandy is a reminder that is too easily forgotten
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OpinionPeople like old houses for a reason, Alain
Alain de Botton’s comments perpetuate the rift between the public and designers
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OpinionArchitects must be at the heart of regulations reform
If the profession doesn’t make its presence felt, the regulations review will succumb to the influence of vested interests
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OpinionLondoners have that sinking feeling
The demise of Gensler’s floating park shows that privately funded schemes need closer scrutiny
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OpinionNow they’ll jail you for rocking the boat
Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield’s imprisonment tells us about the changes to our public space
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OpinionYoung architects deserve better than a pop-up future
This year’s YAYA shortlist offers hope, but what the profession needs is a new generation of good clients
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OpinionV&A learns too late to pick an architect, not a design
Kengo Kuma’s troubled Dundee scheme calls the whole competition process into question
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OpinionManser win blurs the boundaries
It may have been the best house on the shortlist, but Saturday’s wildcard winner has kicked off a new debate over eligibility
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OpinionWhat happened to Nairn’s townscape?
Many architects have no idea what to do with ‘thrown together’ British cities
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OpinionAbolishing Arb would be in step with Tory times
The reality is that architects would be better off lobbying community minister Don Foster to reform Arb
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OpinionThe world’s great cities are under threat
From Aleppo to St Petersburg, historic cities are crumbling within a political vacuum