All Columnists articles – Page 45
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OpinionDesign is important to us too
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Cabe’s stars point way to better design
What is the best way to raise design standards in UK housing which, as Cabe reports this week, are still worryingly low?
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How to sell carbon awareness to Dubai
Imagine the following two events happening in the same week: a structure destined to become the world’s tallest building reaches 100 storeys, and a nearly complete 34-storey tower catches fire leading to rooftop rescues by helicopter and the deaths of four workers. If this was the UK, there would be ...
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Where will Foster’s surprise move end?
It is clear from the hastily written email to clients that Norman Foster was caught on the hop this week when news leaked out that he was looking to sell or partly float his practice.
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Schools project needs total shake-up
It was only a question of time before the government twigged that its school building programme was in deep trouble. But for anyone involved in Gordon Brown’s flagship project, news that the first targets had been missed came as no surprise.
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RIBA should take a more critical stand
Why wasn’t an architect present at this week’s widely publicised meeting between the construction industry and housing minister Yvette Cooper?
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Substance will drive PM Brown’s agenda
New Year is supposedly about resolutions and looking forward. It’s also about marking anniversaries and looking back to see what’s been achieved. Ten years ago New Labour came to power with a list of promises — some fulfilled, some not — including a pledge to use PFI, despite its already ...
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Green issues dominate this year and next
How will architects remember 2006? As the year when a member of the BNP stood for election as RIBA president, or when Sunand Prasad became the first non-white architect to succeed?
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Gazprom competition was no contest
Leaving aside Russia’s state gangster culture, where corruption, violence and vice flourish, its courting of iconic architecture to usher in an era of economic bling raises awkward questions for those involved in their creation.
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Bypassing Arb
There must be many who, like myself, can barely believe that Arb can charge so much for so little for its part I and II assessment.
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Insurance should rest with the client
Your articles last week (News and News analysis) expose the fault line in the business of insurance in the building industry.
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Learning curve
Your report on earn-and-learn in architectural education (News November 24) omitted to say that the project is led by Schosa (Standing Conference of Heads of Schools of Architecture), is based at the Centre for Excellence in Professional Learning from the Workplace within the University of Westminster, and is partnered by ...
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A good news week for Olympic design
Just when things were looking chronically bleak for those charged with delivering the London Olympics, this week has good news not just for architects, but for anyone who was worried the games would be a missed opportunity for the UK’s talented pool of designers.
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Can RIBA redress?
The RIBA has been considering issues of consumer protection over the past year and how clients like Mr and Mrs Shaw (News analysis November 24) could best be served.
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Reform’s school
Jee Eun Lee and John Assael (Letters November 24) have every right to be incensed at the cost of the Arb assessment process; £2,400 for a process directly comparable to that which the RIBA administers for £250 simply cannot be justified.
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Small risk
Your leader last week highlighted how very tiny a risk is presented to clients by small practices and sole architects with a low turnover.
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It doesn’t add up
Arb has unilaterally increased the accreditation fees for the part I and part II one-hour interviews, first from £375 to £998 and now to £1,200 without consultation with the profession which it alleges wants the true cost to be passed on to students wishing to practice as architects in the ...
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Arb outrage
I am astonished that Arb has raised its fee further. I am probably one of many who find it very difficult to understand how the Arb exam board has survived at all, given its utterly unhelpful exam procedure and ridiculously high application fee.
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