Designing Social Value – Page 3
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OpinionArchitectural graduates can earn more at McDonald’s. That’s bad for diversity and the profession
Ludicrously expensive education, low-pay and structural barriers to career progression are hindering efforts to diversify the profession, writes Naomi Fisher
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OpinionWe need to unlock financing for small and medium housebuilders, so they can do their job
Small and medium-sized developers have a key role in delivering housing. Keeping credit flowing is critical in enabling them to carry on building, writes Roxana Mohammadian-Molina
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OpinionA single School of Place won’t fix placemaking. We need better urban design teaching across the board
A School of Place may be no bad thing, but what we really need is a core curriculum for all urban design courses, which can be rolled out everywhere, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionDoes the changing regulatory environment provide an opportunity to look again at fee scales?
The way in which the architectural profession is regulated is changing. Is this the time to reopen the debate on fee scales, asks Matthew Lloyd
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OpinionThe M&S inquiry must be decided on hard evidence, not well-meaning conjecture
Those opposing the Marble Arch replacement scheme are doing so on the basis of a misleading prospectus, writes Fred Pilbrow
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OpinionEngineering the future: How to spot greenwashing
Alex Lynes shares the key questions we need to ask to find out if we’re being greenwashed
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from being a bit kinder to ourselves?
After the last few years we all owe ourselves a proper break, writes Anna Beckett
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OpinionPlasticine versus Lego: Why is architecture so square?
David Rudlin shudders at the overwhelming rectilinearity of our cityscapes and ponders why architects are still so averse to addressing corners
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NewsSequel to Grenfell Tower Inquiry play set to be staged
Follow-up 2021’s “Grenfell: Value Engineering” will probe ministers’ failings and product-manufacturers’ disregard for public safety
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OpinionWhy retrofit first should not be retrofit only
Treating retrofit first as an inflexible dogma is not going to help the environment. In the case of the Marble Arch M&S, replacement is the more sustainable option, writes Fred Pilbrow
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ReviewReview | Building for Change – The Architecture of Creative Reuse
Nicholas de Klerk is stimulated and inspired by Ruth Lang’s book on creative reuse
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50 Wonders50 Wonders | Fiona Scott: Teatro Teresa Carreno and Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
The Gort Scott founding director explores the fluctuating meaning of two neighbouring institutions in Venezuela’s capital city
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from standing up for what we believe in?
We have a responsibility to speak up about projects that are ethically questionable. Only by challenging the status quo can we achieve change, writes Anna Beckett
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OpinionWhy the M&S public inquiry matters
We must seize this opportunity to change the course of construction, writes Henrietta Billings
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OpinionThe Coach: How the light gets in – in praise of imperfection
Perfectionists can achieve great things but they can also demotivate their teams and create cycles of negativity, writes Louise Rodgers
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OpinionWhy we need foundational change in how we engage young people with the built environment
Youth centres have been closed across the UK and fewer and fewer children are studying design for GCSE. Fiona MacDonald and Matt Springett make a rallying cry for change
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from designing more resilient buildings?
Being reactive to climate change is not enough. We must anticipate new challenges and design intelligently for a new era of extreme weather, writes Anna Beckett
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OpinionWhy do we struggle to densify suburbia?
For centuries settlements densified organically over time, but our suburbs stubbornly hold out against such change. We need a new approach that allows suburbia to mature, writes Samuel Hughes
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OpinionWhat record shops can teach the high street
Our high streets are struggling, but the spirit of the independent record shop could point the way towards recovery, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionConservation and the climate emergency
Our built heritage has an important role to play in addressing the climate emergency. We must allow it to adapt, writes Laura Baron