All Eleanor Jolliffe articles – Page 5
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Opinion
Boris and Trump’s infrastructure stunts do us serious harm
Crying wolf on public works makes people less likely to back projects we need
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We should strip RIBA awards from practices that exploit interns
Unpaid internships are a form of modern slavery
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Architects must take a stand on modern slavery
Last year 75 cases of slavery were reported on UK construction sites. Strong decisions early in a project can help stop exploitation, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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We've heard some powerful words on mental health. Now let's see some action
The RIBA, schools and practices are all making the right noises about toxic studio culture. We owe it to each other not to let this drop, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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Letting people get intimate with buildings is the best way to educate future clients
Open House is far more effective than glossy magazines at helping the public understand the value of architects, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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It 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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Why 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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Adjaye'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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Trump 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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Mental 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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The 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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BIM 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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The problem of labels like 'woman architect'
The industry should not set one gender against the other, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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Are 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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Reflections 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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A 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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Opinion
Are 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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We 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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We 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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What Trump’s wall says about American politics
Eleanor Jolliffe congratulates the US presidential hopeful on his measured and carefully thought-through proposal