More Comment – Page 33
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The Coach: Mind the (empathy) gap
Building Design’s new professional coach Louise Rodgers outlines a key skill for resilient practices
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Can the language of social value cross continents?
Flora Samuel explores universality through the lens of two cities in Britain and the Philippines
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On the eve of Brexit we urgently need a more humane development system
The beauty commission’s report is full of welcome ideas, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk. Now the government needs to act on them
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Scruton’s beauty report is an unexpected joy
Many of us worried about the focus on beauty but the BBBBC has produced a well-considered and potentially important report, writes David Rudlin
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Un, deux, trois: a French lesson in reusing buildings
Gillian Darley follows in Ian Nairn’s footsteps to Paris and uncovers a story for our time
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Housing that hits the heights of mediocrity
David Rudlin considers how we should respond to today’s National Housing Audit
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Should architects be paid more?
Building Design’s client columnist looks at how this might actually happen in the real world - and it involves relationships
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The housing legacy of the 2010s
Julia Park manages to find a few things to cheer as she looks back over the last decade
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The fight to save Kolkata’s heritage is part of the wider struggle over India’s identity
It’s about much more than bricks and mortar, writes Ben Flatman
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Our first forays into delivering social value
Andrew Mellor outlines how local consultation altered a regeneration project in Truro
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Our adversarial procurement system is not fit for collaborative construction
Design & build contracts de-skill architects and make accidents more likely, argues Eleanor Jolliffe
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How design aspiration withers in the face of private-sector cunning
Building Design’s social value columnist Flora Samuel examines the story of one estate
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How the success of our cities goes some way to explaining the election result
Cities once led regional growth. Now they grow at the expense of their region, writes David Rudlin
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What we can learn from Frank Dobson and Octavia Hill
Don’t feel defeated by the election result, Gillian Darley exhorts community activists and volunteers
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WA100 2020: The action moves to China and the US
With employment at the world’s biggest architects static, they seem to be battening down the hatches. But there are exceptions, writes Thomas Lane
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‘The level of ambition is worryingly low’
Building Design columnist Julia Park examines what the election result means for housing
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Good ideas – and how to stifle them
It’s all a question of your appetite for risk, writes Martyn Evans
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Imagine a neighbourhood where social value is part of its DNA
What would the characteristics of such a place be, asks Flora Samuel
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How to do ornament that’s not a crime
Gillian Darley on the delight of a well-crafted detail