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OpinionBurntwood School Stirling Prize win an underwhelming choice
This year’s Stirling Prize proved an unusual choice, but could it be a political one too, asks Ike Ijeh
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OpinionThe Housing Bill simply doesn’t add up
The new laws will only help people who can already afford to help themselves and does nothing to address the real problems, argues Julia Park
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OpinionWhen collaboration works
Mutual respect, like that between Kim Wilkie and Niall McLaughlin at the Natural History Museum, is key for partnerships to flourish, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionIf the Stirling Prize was about sustainability, who would win?
Ahead of next week’s ceremony, Simon Sturgis takes a critical look at the carbon performance of the six finalists
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OpinionProtesters are wrong to target Neo Bankside and hipsters eating cereal
We should be less worried about gentrification than about the complete failure to provide for communities like Barking Riverside, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionIS's attack on humanity's shared origins exposes the weakness of its ideology
Blowing up Palmyra is about power and money not cultural cleansing, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionIs brutalism the new Victoriana?
Do National Trust tours of brutalist icons mark a yearning for the return of 1960s and 70s socialist utopias or is the brutalist revival simply down to fashion?
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OpinionYou’ve got to hand it to post-modernism
It took capitalism and consumer nostalgia to rescue our brutal utopias, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionArchitects must be allowed to finish what they start
It’s time to end the damaging separation between concept design and delivery architect which was highlighted by the RIBA Client and Architect report, argues Roddy Langmuir
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OpinionArchitecture and freedom – a contested connection
With architectural production becoming ever more beholden to the needs of capital and the building industry, the Royal Academy’s Owen Hopkins introduces a season of events that explores what freedom might mean for architects – and architecture – now and in the future
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OpinionFraying at the edge
Barking Riverside? This isolated settlement is neither, finds Gillian Darley
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OpinionHodder: Industry values architects for our creativity, passion and technical ability
There is much for the profession to be optimistic about, says Stephen Hodder as he steps down as president of the RIBA
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OpinionThis report on clients is required reading
Rab Bennetts says the RIBA report on clients is a wake-up call for the profession
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OpinionFlood-proof? Designing against the tide
Our attitude to rising sea levels remains as defensive as ever. With 20% of British homes now at risk, this is a mistake, says Robert Barker
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OpinionWhy aren't architects talking about the migration crisis?
The profession has a vital part to play in addressing the challenges confronting Europe, argues Richard Gatti
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OpinionTall buildings: Height vs heritage
London’s lack of a coherent tall buildings policy has led to controversial ‘carbuncles’ such as the Walkie Talkie crowding its skyline – and a further 200 tall towers are proposed for the capital. Ike Ijeh wonders if other old cities offer lessons in how to integrate tall buildings into their ...
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OpinionThe continuing evolution of the BD Architect of the Year Awards
BD editor Thomas Lane explains how the awards have got bigger
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OpinionMost clients would dispense with architects if they could
Architects have become the whipping boy for clients’ failure to produce great buildings, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionCarbuncle Cup: There but for the grace of God go all of us
Many of the architects nominated for the Carbuncle Cup are also RIBA Award-winning practices. How do talented professionals sometimes get it so badly wrong, asks Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionLondon's housing problems are beyond the power of market forces to solve
The global pressures shaping London’s built environment now include the Airbnb effect, says Hank Dittmar