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OpinionSocial housing requires elevated standards of design
Excellent design is more critical to social housing than most other building types. Almost 50% of social tenants are not in formal employment, and some 40% of lettings each year go to households with some sort of support need.
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OpinionSmall firms are the best innovators
The bread and butter work of up-and-coming architects is now ripe for scaling up, says young practice AOC
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OpinionWill Foster’s deal with 3i be good for the practice?
John McAslan says the deal can only be beneficial, while former partner Barry Cook wonders if it can’t help but compromise design excellence
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On the run
Norman Foster may prefer his marathons to be of the cross-country skiing sort these days, but chatting to Boots this week he recalled running in the first London Marathon in 1981.
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OpinionLeft for Wright
Among the former EH staff who contacted BD after last week’s story on the quango’s diminishing pool of architects, one who has definitely landed on his feet is former conservation director John Fidler, who moved last year to Los Angeles, where his wife is associate director of the Getty Conservation ...
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Good grief
The Royal College of Art’s Don’t Panic exhibition, which opens at the Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery on June 1, sounds like a barrel of laughs.
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Strife of Bryan
Boots reported last month that 1970s style icon Bryan Ferry had voiced admiration for the work of architect to the Nazis, Albert Speer.
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OpinionHemp offers even more
The article on hemp insulation by Roderick Bunn (Solutions May 11) quoted a U-value of 0.9W/m2K from Buro Happold for 100mm.
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Get a grip, RIBA
You hit the nail fairly and squarely on the head (Leader May 11) in asserting that the RIBA has more pressing matters to beat itself up about than registering the political affiliations of council and board members.
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Agora exists
Gareth Gwynne suggests an “agora” to showcase and debate the major architectural/built environment projects proposed for London (Letters April 27). Has he been to New London Architecture in the Building Centre?
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Peak practice
How quickly people forget! When I got my first job 35 years ago with Leonard Manasseh, a superb aerial perspective of his proposal for Snowdon’s summit (News May 4) sat in his foyer in Rathbone Street.
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It’s a mad world
Your headline (News May 4) regarding housing competitions could equally apply to the whole competition process. This is, generally, fairness gone bonkers.
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OpinionCoal not doled
The May issue of BD Magazine is packed with interest and really well presented, but Retrospect is wildly adrift concerning the “the health of toiling miners” in 1948.
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Hard times
It seems that Dickensian employment practices are alive and well in architects’ offices (Practice May 4).
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OpinionViews: The Williams Report is only the beginning
Design for Homes chief executive David Birkbeck says that government of whatever hue has no choice but to start a massive housebuilding programme - both at Thames Gateway and across the country. It could even be a vote winner
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OpinionBlog: How sustainability is merging skills
Architects and engineers must collaborate from the outset of a project, was the message from Mobilising the Environmentalists
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OpinionIn danger of losing the plot
Now is not the time for English Heritage to run down its level of architectural expertise
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OpinionHawkish times displace the US eagle
Saarinen’s US Embassy is a symbol of a more open, and now outdated, America