More Comment – Page 49
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OpinionHow can architects attract Boris Johnson’s attention?
The PM has stuck the knife into almost everything else but the Beauty Commission has somehow survived – and may prove to be an unexpected ally
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OpinionPut architects in charge of designing home information packs
If we’re to meet the zero carbon target we need to educate the people who will live in our homes, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionIt’s time to start rebuilding the country
What’s done is done. Pragmatism and optimism are what we need now to get Britain back on the front foot, argues Chris Dyson
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OpinionWhat we know so far about how building safety regulations are changing
As all the clause numbers you committed to memory change, Andrew Mellor decodes the new guidance and what it will mean for architects
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OpinionHow Aberdeen’s homogeneity helped it survive the boom years
Gillian Darley on the Granite City’s enduring materiality
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OpinionPlanning reform is not just about money
There are other ways to ease the pressures on planning capacity, says Nicholas Boys Smith of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission
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OpinionCities are complex. Developers need the courage to embrace that
If we are to make really interesting places it will take collaboration - and risk, says Martyn Evans
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OpinionIt’s in your commercial interests – and a moral duty – to protect your staff’s minds
Too many practices still treat their greatest asset with contempt, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionHow to make planning a cause célèbre
Ordinary people are clueless about the faults of our planning system. We have to find a way to engage them, says Elizabeth Hopkirk
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OpinionHow the Hackitt consultation will affect your practice
BD’s expert columnist explains how the new hurdles to getting projects over the line will work
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OpinionYou need to talk about succession
If you run a practice you should already be thinking about what happens once you’ve gone, says Mark Middleton
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OpinionNairn was right to despair of York
Gillian Darley finds herself confounded by the city’s planners
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OpinionYou can’t programme public space, however much you’d like to
Open spaces are different from buildings and require a humbler approach from designers, says David Rudlin
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OpinionPride is a reminder for us all to be a bit more humane
Thoughtless language and design can exclude people who are different, says Martyn Evans
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OpinionThose vying to be PM must look beyond their party and engage with a country crying out for real change
Centralised control has infantilised us and eroded the built environment. It’s time to put the government into special measures
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OpinionLessons from a loose researcher
Never trust other people’s statistics, says Julia Park. There’s always a risk someone put a decimal point in the wrong place
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OpinionDoes the RIBA really need to tell architects this stuff?
Eleanor Jolliffe takes issue with the way the new code of conduct infantilises the profession
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OpinionSend MPs to the tower – 22 Bishopsgate, that is
Protecting a building as significant as Parliament requires tough decisions and a dose of humility, says Elizabeth Hopkirk