All Eleanor Jolliffe articles – Page 5
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OpinionIt takes more than a PR campaign to create a real community
Eleanor Jolliffe has moved to Greenwich Peninsula and is struck by the developer’s efforts to manufacture a sense of commuity as a marketing tool
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OpinionWhy can’t we make architecture intelligible to the general public?
A 1948 book encourages the lay observer to believe they can engage with architecture. Why are we still struggling with an elitist image nearly 70 years later asks Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionAdjaye's Museum of African American History is architecture at its powerful best
Eleanor Jolliffe visits a museum where the architecture knows exactly when to defer to the exhibits and when to reassert itself
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OpinionTrump and the other wall
When the US president visited Jerusalem he stepped into a place charged with an almost unique power, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionMental health issues: a new campaign to help architects
Mental health is a big issue for architects. Eleanor Jolliffe welcomes a new campaign launched by RIBA and the Architects Benevolent Society to help
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OpinionThe Garden Bridge is like a student project – good on paper but impossible to realise
With government cuts and increasing global tensions it’s not the time to waste money on a costly folly, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionBIM changes the way we work, not the design
Working with BIM may make a new set of demands on designers but has wider benefits, argues Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionThe problem of labels like 'woman architect'
The industry should not set one gender against the other, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionAre architects victims of their own rhetoric?
How can we expect the public to engage with architects while they associate them with expensive minimalist schemes and unintelligible, self-serving language, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionReflections on Christmas
Christmas has multiple meanings depending on culture and place. Eleanor Jolliffe relects on the multifaceted nature of our end of year festival
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OpinionA building is a more fitting memorial to the fallen than a stone cross
Historic England listed 50 war memorials to mark this year’s Armstice day while a memorial cottage hospital in Knutsford is threatened with demolition. Is this a case of misplaced priorites asks Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionAre the architecture schools doing enough to tackle mental health problems?
Last month BD’s student columnist highlighted the pressures faced by architectural students. She talked to the universities to see what they are doing about this and whether it is enough
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OpinionWe all have a duty to stand up to the toxic culture at architecture schools
As hundreds of first years begin part I, BD’s student columnist calls time on a pernicious academic attitude that has normalised suffering
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OpinionWe didn't vote for it, but my generation is the one that must shape the future
Eleanor Jolliffe sets aside her grief and issues a rallying cry
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OpinionWhat Trump’s wall says about American politics
Eleanor Jolliffe congratulates the US presidential hopeful on his measured and carefully thought-through proposal
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OpinionAs London builds tall, we urgently need to rethink the rules governing 'public space'
If they are putting us in flats, developers and politicians need to be realistic about our need to be ourselves outside
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OpinionWe're pushing out talent by ignoring the business side of the profession till part III
BD’s student columnist takes issue with her unbalanced architectural education
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OpinionYou can't just build a railway and hope the Northern Powerhouse will succeed
Designing attractive places where people will want to build a life must be a critical part of the government’s plan, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionWhy no one has a good word to say for the Housing & Planning Bill
The government could learn a lot from the history of urbanism in Paris, London - and China, argues Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionOn beginning part III
Don’t mention the money! Our student columnist asks why the business of practice doesn’t get a look-in until the very end of an architect’s education