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OpinionHow can architects buoy up business in the downturn?
To stay afloat, architects must examine every aspect of their business . It’s a cliché that ‘cash is king’ in uncertain times, but many a firm has gone bust with a healthy order book.
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OpinionAdjaye must see this through
The Stephen Lawrence Centre is beset with problems, but with its architect’s help it can still be the inspiration it was intended to be
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Opinion'im indoors
It can be hard to be recognised for one’s own achievements when a partner is hogging the limelight.
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OpinionHousebuilders need our support
It is indicative of the gulf between architects and developers that your leader (October 30) assumes an economic downturn will somehow force housebuilders to think about how to deliver Cabe’s demands.
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OpinionWay-out Westfield is about cashing in
Glitzy Westfield, in contrastingly bleak Shepherd’s Bush, is a surreal monument to capitalism
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OpinionSurprised by Joy
More than a year and a half after chief architect of English Heritage David Heath quit the organisation amid a seething attack over low morale, his replacement has finally been appointed.
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OpinionCan shopping centres be used to regenerate cities?
Yes, directly and as a catalyst, says Hammerson’s director of retail development Robin Dobson, but architect Ptolemy Dean prefers a return to traditional streets
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OpinionTime to burst the bubble
Should I let my project be published when the client is in dispute with the design team?
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How to win trust
Like Charlie Bunce (Debate October 31), I too was involved in the Castleford project, persuading poorly paid architects to take part and liaising with the community to help select preferred design partners.
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OpinionBad baggage
I was delighted to read George Oldham’s assurance that progress has been made at Arb (Letters October 31).
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Poor planning
The government’s target-driven attempt to force planning authorities to determine most applications within the statutory eight weeks has clearly failed. Hard-pressed officers have developed a range of tactics to delay applications for as long as possible.
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Taxing question
During your Robin Hood Gardens campaign, the concept of listing was given undue importance.
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Us and them
The effect of the economic downturn is hitting architects hard but seems not to have reached Arb, whose marketing budget appears to be in rude health.
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Alien world
For much of last Friday’s Poundbury Supercrit, Leon Krier gave a convincing impression of someone who lives in the real world.
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Ruling the roost
Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension is being fast-tracked by Southwark Council, Boots hears.
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OpinionKitchens big enough to cook in – is it too much to ask?
From House to Home, a major conference for housebuilders, policymakers and sociologists is on November 20-21. Here, Prue Leith, cookery doyenne, discusses the bad effects poor design has on our lives
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OpinionCorporate educators are bad business
Designers love Westminster Academy, but is what’s going on inside really such a good idea?
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OpinionCan the public be trusted to choose the best architecture?
Yes, if it means it suits the purpose, says Grand Designs producer Charlie Bunce, but George Ferguson fears it sees too little of the whole concept to judge
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OpinionRay of light
Madonna’s divorce from British film director Guy Ritchie may be splashed all over the papers but at least the queen of pop now has architecture to take her mind off it all.