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OpinionLondon's tall buildings bloopers
There’s lots of great new architecture in London but you wouldn’t know it to look at the skyline, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionBritain's urban literacy is a national scandal
Critic Jonathan Glancey laments the loss of city making skills
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OpinionThanks to the EU, architects can work in more places than ever before
Ben Flatman looks at the implications of Brexit for architects’ freedom of movement
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OpinionThe Green Belt is protected for a reason
Gillian Darley says a visit to Cairo or Delhi shows what can go wrong
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OpinionIf we can't even get common people to a debate on privilege, how will we get them to study architecture?
With its provocative format, Turncoats promised to ‘rugby tackle’ fundamental issues and turn deferential debates on their head. It caused a buzz in London. This week it moves to Canada and Serbia. Michael Badu assesses its most explosive event yet and asks whether, beyond the hype, it really offers something ...
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OpinionCollaboration and research are key to the survival of the profession
Architects must offer clients meaningful evidence - and the RIBA should be drawing it together, says Ben Derbyshire
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OpinionYou can't just build a railway and hope the Northern Powerhouse will succeed
Designing attractive places where people will want to build a life must be a critical part of the government’s plan, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionWe need to work much harder to retain women - and publishing gender pay rates would be a good start
Legislation is coming but most practices are too small to be affected. The RIBA should step in to change that, argues Grimshaw partner Mark Middleton
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OpinionLondon won’t find the answer until it asks the right question
House prices in the capital have risen 45% under Boris Johnson. Infrastructure is at breaking point. We urgently need to decide what kind of city we want London to be, says Julia Park
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OpinionTime to stop going down the garden path and come up with a strategy
Solving the housing crisis is not just a numbers game: it requires proactive planning. Jeff Nottage urges the government to abandon opportunism and get serious
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OpinionA towering mess that the government has the power - but not the will - to address
We must act to shape the market or we’ll have a skyscraper glut and still no affordable housing, warns Hank Dittmar
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OpinionWhy so many English picnics happen in motorway lay-bys
The people’s exclusion from Arcadia should be a national scandal, says Leon Krier. Instead we seem happy to settle for a handkerchief-size garden
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OpinionYou've got to laugh or you'd cry
Gillian Darley aims to cheer with her trawl through the funniest architecture in literature
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OpinionLessons from competitive Paris
London’s next mayor would do well to look across the Channel, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionWhat Brexit might mean for architects
It’s hard to separate the facts from the rhetoric, but on balance the profession will probably be best served by the UK remaining in the EU, says BD editor Thomas Lane
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OpinionWatch out, planners: You're in the government's crosshairs
Architect-turned-developer Crispin Kelly detects the stamping foot of a crotchety minister demanding, ‘More houses, or else’
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OpinionWhy no one has a good word to say for the Housing & Planning Bill
The government could learn a lot from the history of urbanism in Paris, London - and China, argues Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionJust because the Powell & Moya site is available doesn't mean it's the right place for a concert hall
London should think carefully about where to build its newest cultural venue. And Leon Krier’s Regent’s Park proposal beats Boris’s commercial opportunism, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionEthical professionalism: Taking advantage of diminishing state intervention
As the RIBA begins its hunt for a new chief executive, Ben Derbyshire assesses the future of the profession at a critical point in its history