All Columnists articles – Page 26
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OpinionGove gets off to a bad start
The new education secretary’s ill-informed remarks suggests he has little understanding of architecture
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OpinionLet’s keep politicians out of it
Whoever wins the election, we don’t want them meddling with architecture
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Opinion
In need of new leadership
The next RIBA president must be someone willing to fight architects’ corner
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OpinionPatrolling the windowbox war zone
Whatever the scale, it’s not always easy to reach consensus in battles over our environment
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OpinionWe must heed volcanic wake-up call
The importance of resilient, sustainable design has been brought home by the eruption in Iceland
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OpinionDon’t let them off the hook
The construction industry has failed to take the three main parties to task over where public sector cuts will fall
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OpinionTime is ripe to revive the ‘Rippon’ effect
By ensuring small-scale urban buildings are protected, we have saved some places, but have we gone far enough?
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OpinionWhose modernist icon is it anyway?
The Azerbaijani restaurant in Melnikov’s Rusakov club strikes an incongruous note
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Opinion‘World class’ just means banal
An invitation arrives from the Swedish Association of Architects to speak to Stockholm politicians and planners. Icelandic volcanoes willing, I’ll go because the theme is urgent: the “world class city”
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OpinionYou get what you pay for
If the RIBA really wants to engage with members, it should make the presidency a paid position
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OpinionSteel beats wood to Olympic gold
Timber should have been the star of the ‘sustainable’ 2012 Games
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OpinionDanger of sidelining building
Election pledges to defend public sector jobs ignore our responsibility to decrease carbon emissions
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OpinionCabe gives me engage rage
Le Corbusier must be turning in his grave at the modern obsession with ‘engaging the public’
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OpinionThe land that Pevsner forgot
No one is charting the new buildings that are springing up to swamp our cities
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OpinionHow Londoners lost the space race
The 100 Public Spaces scheme would have given the city its Olympic legacy
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OpinionIgnore low pay at your peril
The institute’s refusal to take action over low pay — or even debate it — exposes it as aloof from its members
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OpinionDongtan, icon of our vanishing future
Two years after its ravishing images wowed the media, there is still no sign of an eco-city
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OpinionEarning their licence to build
Never mind architects learning how developers work, developers should have to learn how architects work before they are allowed to build
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OpinionNew Labour’s sorry legacy
Looking at the state of the built environment after 13 years, it’s no surprise that Cabe and the HCA’s futures are in doubt
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OpinionThe fusty critics have a point
Those die-hard critics of modern architecture sometimes have a point, says Jonathan Glancey, after seeing the characterless commercial development of Bury St Edmunds