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Zero Carbon Development
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 ...
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Design is important to us too
We wanted our redesign to reflect the vibrant mood of the profession today
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TV factor taps into public aspirations
The apparent influence of the media actually reflects public awareness
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Find love
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 ...
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We want to know what you think
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Do better buildings really change people’s behaviour?
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
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Tell us what you think
Have any of these ideas worked for you? Would you do anything differently? Post your comments at the bottom of the story
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Tell us what you think
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Competitions raise standards
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 ...
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Design and build
Richard Simmons’ suggestion that the link between design and housing needs to be prioritised in the profession’s affairs is right.
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Architect for Arb
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.
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Good practice
Archaos would like to thank the 450 practices and architects who have joined our Good Practice Campaign.
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Save our greens
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.
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Lost opportunity
I am bemused that a deputy-chairman of any nascent NGO should resign because he doesn’t like the shape of his own organisation.
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Cabe’s stars point way to better design
What is the best way to raise design standards in UK housing which, as Cabe reports this week, are still worryingly low?
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Chance to regain the housing initiative
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?
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Pulling together
I would like to emphasise how worldwide the support is for the Architects Benevolent Society’s Big Auction on June 7 (News February 2).