All Columnists articles – Page 35
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OpinionWay-out Westfield is about cashing in
Glitzy Westfield, in contrastingly bleak Shepherd’s Bush, is a surreal monument to capitalism
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OpinionWill moving really be better?
The Design Museum may appear to be a white knight come to save the Commonwealth Institute building, but is it just a vanity project with no real purpose?
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OpinionCorporate educators are bad business
Designers love Westminster Academy, but is what’s going on inside really such a good idea?
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OpinionPrickly problems at Shanghai
Finding some meaningful content for the British pavilion at the 2010 expo brings back memories of the Millennium Dome
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FeaturesMrs Beckett: style icon or menace?
Margaret Beckett is back in government, this time as housing minister, but will her love of caravaning lead to more flexible attitudes on how to address the UK’s housing needs?
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OpinionThe changing face of banking – literally
The banks’ move from real to virtual money is reflected in what physical presence they have left
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OpinionA bright side to dark times
Rather than give in to the economic gloom, architects can shape up for the future
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OpinionWhat now – the bunker or the bike?
Never mind weeping and wailing — how are you going to get through the meltdown?
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OpinionTowers as old as building itself
Towers have been around for thousands of years. Which means we can certainly critique the current batch
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OpinionTough times need ingenuity
The housing and architecture ministers are taking the reins at a testing moment
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OpinionA green New Deal can tackle depression
Looming financial disaster might have unexpected social and environmental benefits
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OpinionStirling masks the real issues
The Stirling Prize is great... but the man in the street wants quality public buildings, and architects must take responsibility
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OpinionJoin the transition from fear to hope
As peak oil and climate change threaten our way of life, transition towns look to the future
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FeaturesWill recession bring revolution?
The changing economic climate could lead to greater political engagement among British architects
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OpinionClassic designs put politics in a spin
What hidden messages lie in the architecture of the stages for the US presidential contest?
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FeaturesConcerning Callcutt’s bare cheek
John Callcutt’s unwarranted attack on the profession at Venice highlights how quiescent architects have become
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OpinionArb digs itself a deeper hole
Arb’s financial indulgence and bid to dump elections to its board only give more credence to its detractors
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OpinionPrepare to fight your corner
As recession looms, it is up to architects to ensure that planning consultants don’t take away more of their work
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OpinionWe need a starting point to get better
Cabe sets a standard for good school design, and one response from the architectural community — there is no such thing, of course, but it will do as a shorthand — is that the procurement process has to be sorted out before a quality standard can be adopted.
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FeaturesLord of the architectural laugh
In the wake of a Venice biennale that provoked laughs — and not in good way — comes a London show celebrating Osbert Lancaster, our most gifted architectural humourist