All Columnists articles – Page 37
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OpinionWhere's the science bit?
Since the BRE was privatised, serious research has been replaced by meaningless PR initiatives
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OpinionIn politics, the architecture’s electronic
When politics happened in places, the venue matched the cause. Now it has lost its context
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FeaturesThe challenge of accessibility
Buzzwords like ‘accessibility’ and ‘sustainability’ mask a tendency to talk down to a public craving for architecture of substance
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OpinionHow MacCormac went wrong
Richard MacCormac put up a heroic fight against the BBC, but their correspondence hints that he lost the plot
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FeaturesLet’s export our way out of recession
Recessions are caused largely by a loss of confidence in the economy. The capitalist system is both crude and delicate, a spoilt brat of a way of determining our economic wellbeing.
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OpinionKeep the whip hand on 2012 spending
As the mayor’s man on the Olympic project, does David Ross hold a poisoned chalice?
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OpinionA design folly sent to test our mettle
The textureless, bland, context-immune metal panel threatens to define our age
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FeaturesDogs have their day at the LFA
Is modern architecture’s inability to accommodate man’s best friend a measure of its joylessness?
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OpinionThe challenge for Oxford
Next month’s debate on architectural education must accept that professional boundaries are a thing of the past
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OpinionWe need to see Olympic projects
A visitors’ centre will open people’s eyes to what an incredible project we’re building
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OpinionGet off the couch and fight this blight
An insidious force is stalking the built environment in an effort to undermine architects
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FeaturesArchitecture deformed by cash
How New Labour presided over the expansion of a privately financed building sector to the detriment of public architecture
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OpinionAn Obama win is a monumental need
Chicago’s unsung Hyde Park area has an interest in seeing a president Obama
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FeaturesMixed use needs real meaning
Jonathan Glancy laments the lost ambition for real, human-scale mixed-use buildings in favour of massive, sleek warehouses of people and consumables
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OpinionProvincial power does exist
Ruth Reed’s regional moan is out of date: government devolution and technology have bestowed a different power outside London
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OpinionWe must break out of this prison cycle
Prisons don’t work — it’s been shown time and again. So why do we keep building them?
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OpinionThe trouble with Aussies
Australians may make good planners, but they don’t stick around to see a project through
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FeaturesBerlin phoenix must rise again
The links between Berlin, Berlioz and other great architectural fires explored
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OpinionIn terms of place-making, it’s a wrap
Rather than taking urban design forward, are ‘wrapped’ superstores a dead end?
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OpinionPutting politics over heritage
English Heritage is favouring self-preservation at the expense of protecting post-war architecture