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  • Opinion

    Zero Carbon Development

    2007-02-16T17:18:00Z

    Suddenly it seems that sustainability is on everyone’s lips. It has rapidly become an overriding national priority and when Chancellor Gordon Brown committed himself to the target of making all new homes carbon neutral by 2016, he handed a massive challenge to the design and development industries (Tough New Rules ...

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Design is important to us too

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    We wanted our redesign to reflect the vibrant mood of the profession today

  • Alain de Botton
    Opinion

    TV factor taps into public aspirations

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    The apparent influence of the media actually reflects public awareness

  • Opinion

    Find love

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    If you spent Valentines Day alone you need to join our Lonely Hearts Club. Architecture has one of the highest proportions of single people of all the professions so there’s no reason you can’t find the column to fit your pediment. Send us a few paragraphs about yourself and what ...

  • Opinion

    We want to know what you think

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Have our reviewers got it right? Could you do better? We want to hear what you think. Add your comments to the reviews featured here by clicking on the link at the bottom of each story or send in your own review to bdonline@cmpi.biz.

  • Opinion

    We want to know what you think

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Have our reviewers got it right? Could you do better? We want to hear what you think. Add your comments to the reviews featured here by clicking on the link at the bottom of each story or send in your own review to bdonline@cmpi.biz.

  • Our Leader comment in 1992
    Opinion

    Leader: Palumbo is right

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Read what BD's editor had to say about this story in 1982

  • The regenerated North Peckham Estate is designed to have a positive effect on communities and individuals — but does it?
    Opinion

    Do better buildings really change people’s behaviour?

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    The Spectator's Ross Clark argues living on a grim estate doesn't justify crime, but Southwark's Richard Thomas believes design really can make a difference

  • Brian Clarke: unusual threats.
    Opinion

    Boots

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Golden shot

  • Opinion

    Tell us what you think

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Have any of these ideas worked for you? Would you do anything differently? Post your comments at the bottom of the story

  • Opinion

    Tell us what you think

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Have our experts got it right? Do you have a different answer? Post your comments at the bottom of the story

  • Opinion

    Competitions raise standards

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    From Berlin, I have followed the debate on competitions in BD with interest. Having established our office on the success of a single competition win in Germany in 1991, and with 90% of our subsequent commissions coming from competitions, I am mystified why they are treated with such suspicion in ...

  • Opinion

    Design and build

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Richard Simmons’ suggestion that the link between design and housing needs to be prioritised in the profession’s affairs is right.

  • Opinion

    Architect for Arb

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    I was disappointed to read (News February 9) that the so-called Arb Reform Group would not be supporting architect and RIBA member Sarah Lupton in her bid to be elected as Arb chair.

  • Opinion

    Good practice

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Archaos would like to thank the 450 practices and architects who have joined our Good Practice Campaign.

  • St James’s Park: valued space.
    Opinion

    Save our greens

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    Landscape Architecture South East (LASE) welcomes the Greater London Authority inquiry into the loss of street trees in London (News February 2) and anticipates real outcomes from it.

  • Opinion

    Lost opportunity

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    I am bemused that a deputy-chairman of any nascent NGO should resign because he doesn’t like the shape of his own organisation.

  • Opinion

    Cabe’s stars point way to better design

    2007-02-09T00:00:00Z

    What is the best way to raise design standards in UK housing which, as Cabe reports this week, are still worryingly low?

  • Richard Simmons
    Opinion

    Chance to regain the housing initiative

    2007-02-09T00:00:00Z

    On a visit to Newcastle last year I was told that many people in the region aspire to buy a standard housebuilder’s box. The blander, the better. Why?

  • Opinion

    Pulling together

    2007-02-09T00:00:00Z

    I would like to emphasise how worldwide the support is for the Architects Benevolent Society’s Big Auction on June 7 (News February 2).