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OpinionMaking the world a better place - through design
Building Design has launched a new initiative placing social value at the heart of our coverage
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The Octopus has lost a leg
What the withdrawal of Stockport means for the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework
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We need urgent clarity on the rules around external wall safety
Industry needs aligned and consistent guidance to minimise time, cost and anguish, warns Andrew Mellor
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We can do things when we try
Covid-19 has exposed many uncomfortable realities but it has also shown what can be achieved in a very short time, writes Julia Park
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Answer the question – and shoulder the responsibility
Dodging questions can have devastating consequences, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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Designing a better future for 2021 – and the next million years
Flora Samuel finds some hope in taking the long view
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We must keep fighting the battle over PDR
Change is inevitable and town centres need repurposing, but these half-baked proposals need much more thought, writes Julia Park
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Arcadia lost
As high streets go for a Burton, David Rudlin looks back at how the seeds of destruction were sown
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So 2021, how should we prepare?
Martyn Evans reflects on what we can learn from a year like no other as the next one hoves into view
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Whatever happened to The Crown episode where Charles triggers the architects?
The prince’s notorious speech was a missed opportunity for the profession to interest the public in what it does, writes Ben Flatman
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Why is the industry waiting for the threat of jail?
Tough new building safety laws are on their way and they will shake up a complacent sector, writes Andrew Mellor
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The adapt or die mantra still holds true for architects as a profession
Eleanor Jolliffe finds the existential preoccupations of a near decade-old RIBA report to be just as relevant today
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The Coach: The importance of perspective
Our present isolation can make work all-consuming and intensify small dramas. Louise Rodgers offers advice on how to step back
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Finding the way to build back better
New administrative groupings are needed in government and local authorities to ensure joined up strategy across the health, social care, transport and planning agendas, Flora Samuel writes
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Which pigeonhole are you in?
Social profiling has become big business and high tech. David Rudlin traces its history back to a team of Victorians pounding the streets
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A green homes revolution or total mayhem?
In theory the government is about to start retrofitting 2,700 homes every day. Really, asks Julia Park
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Spiralling insurance premiums are putting architects out of business
The PI insurance crisis is a threat to architects but also to housing targets so the government will have to act, writes Andrew Mellor
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Help at last for an Asian architectural gem
Conservation efforts in Lahore offer a fascinating insight into south Asia’s past and present, writes Ben Flatman
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Could this pandemic be the making of home?
Covid-19 has changed the way we work but it could also alter our attitude to the place where we live
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The Coach: Time to control the controllables
After a summer like no other you are probably in need of an autumn reset, suggests Louise Rodgers
