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OpinionWe’re older but are we any wiser?
Persuading older people to downsize unlocks homes for others. Yet just 3% of new units are designed for elderly people. Julia Park asks whether a new report has any answers
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OpinionWhat Trump’s wall says about American politics
Eleanor Jolliffe congratulates the US presidential hopeful on his measured and carefully thought-through proposal
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OpinionFalse distinction between design and delivery architects is killing the profession
Constant re-tendering is a waste of money - and is also depriving young architects of valuable experience, warns Grimshaw’s Mark Middleton
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OpinionUrban recycling and doubling-up: How cities really respond to growth
Adapting existing stock could have a bigger impact on the housing crisis than mass construction. Hank Dittmar draws some parallels from wartime Washington DC
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OpinionJohn Madin was first a victor, then a victim of Birmingham's identity crisis
It should come as no surprise that England’s second city has systematically destroyed much of its best modernist architecture. It has form for this kind of iconoclasm, says Ben Flatman
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OpinionTransparency is essential as the UK relies on private cash for public projects
Investors are eyeing up our public assets and we must ensure the country gets a good deal, says Thomas Lane
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OpinionYou're not writing a great tragic novel. You're designing places for people to live
Architecture is not the place to work through our collective guilt. Leave that to the poets and artists, says Leon Krier
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OpinionPlanners: Your country needs you (but no one will admit it)
In the UK we push planners to the margins. In the Netherlands their expertise is valued by government. Which do you think is working best, asks Gillian Darley
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OpinionIt's your museum and you can sleep in it if you want to
As Tate Modern prepares to open its extension and the V A plots its eastern outpost, Amanda Baillieu questions whether museums can still dazzle us
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OpinionIf we’re to build good places, architects and developers need to learn to trust each other
Get round a table and talk, Martyn Evans tells clients and designers. But don’t talk about buildings - talk about people
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OpinionWhen it comes to housing it's people who count, not units per hectare
There are endless ways of calculating density, each with a different physical and social outcome. Julia Park does the maths
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OpinionAs London builds tall, we urgently need to rethink the rules governing 'public space'
If they are putting us in flats, developers and politicians need to be realistic about our need to be ourselves outside
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OpinionSadiq Khan, you need to read these reports by Boris' design advisors
London’s new mayor has his work cut out on housing and planning, but he has plenty of excellent advice to draw on, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionArne Jacobsen designed chairs. Why won't architects let Heatherwick design buildings?
Architects have nothing to fear from designers straying on to their turf - and plenty to gain from collaboration, argues Mark Middleton
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OpinionPoliticians would do well to show more interest in urban design
Leon Krier proposes a new European capital built on genuinely sustainable principles. It would make the EU more lovable, be a model for other city builders - and help end our dependence on oil, he argues
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OpinionPostcards from continental railway stations
Gillian Darley hails a new generation of European stations and asks what we can learn
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OpinionMayoral targets - and mayoral rhetoric
Whoever succeeds Boris Johnson this week one thing is certain - they will struggle to build enough affordable housing for London, says BD editor Thomas Lane
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OpinionDispatch from Jamaica's urban frontline
What happens when the built environment becomes a literal battlefield, and how does a city recover?
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OpinionWe're pushing out talent by ignoring the business side of the profession till part III
BD’s student columnist takes issue with her unbalanced architectural education
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OpinionWhy the Panama Papers raise questions for architects too
Greater transparency is good news for the profession - but not necessarily in the way you might think, says Amanda Baillieu