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OpinionAnother brick in the wall
It’s not easy designing great schools under the new funding regime – but it is possible, says Ryder Architecture’s Richard Wise after his practice’s latest academy got a pasting at committee
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OpinionDon't forget everything before Part L
There is much to be learnt from our forebears before we even reach for the air-con, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionUsing art to breathe communities into life
Assemble’s Turner Prize nomination is recognition of the role public art and storytelling are increasingly playing in placemaking, says Fabienne Nicholas
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OpinionDon’t scrap the Palace of Westminster
The idea that we should build a new, literally transparent parliament is simplistic and learns nothing from recent history, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionTrips worth making at the London Festival of Architecture
BD picks out some of the best events at the festival which opens on Monday
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OpinionRemembering an age when we cared about landscaping the nation's infrastructure
Gillian Darley celebrates two women who influenced the shape of so much of our landscape, from new towns to forests
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OpinionThe revolution will not be built until the people with power and the people with ideas learn to talk
A debate on morality in architecture was let down by the failure to engage both sides, finds Harriet Partridge
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OpinionWho's driving innovation in housing?
It’s crazy that the car industry offers more choice than housebuilders, says Paul McGrath
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OpinionWhen it comes to architecture, the public are all first-years
Educating them into part IIs is a task for the whole profession if we want design to be taken seriously, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionFrom smuggling computers to BIM pioneers
Ike Ijeh reports on one Budapest firm’s rise to become a leading architectural software manufacturer
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OpinionWhy architects vote Labour
It helps ease guilt about the sort of housing being built, says Amanda Baillieu. But for older architects, Mrs Thatcher is a reason too
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OpinionDensifying suburbia
Localism and small-scale interventions could play an important part in increasing housing densities, writes Matt Goodwin. But the inflexible reality is enough to deter all but the richest players
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OpinionRiding the railroad to revival
Hank Dittmar explores how the US’s organic approach to urban revival could take hold in Britain’s regions
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OpinionWe're not here to man the barricades, says Historic England chief
Nigel Barker defends heritage watchdog’s position on Norton Folgate and other controversial schemes
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OpinionIt's the architecture critic wot won it
Today’s architectural writers wield their influence to powerful political effect, argues Gillian Darley as the election looms
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OpinionHow contractors can minimise design risk when bidding
Mistakes at the start will come back to haunt you, warns our BIM columnist
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OpinionDon’t let heritage become a victim of our economic recovery
Reintroducing enterprise zones has inadvertently put heritage buildings within them at risk of demolition, warns Justin Birch
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OpinionThis is what the planning system has become
Planning should be the ‘heart and soul’ of every council, according to Brandon Lewis. The reality, says architect and developer Crispin Kelly, is more about passing the buck
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OpinionPoliticians offer more of the same on housing
No party is prepared to be revolutionary enough, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionHousing is not just a numbers game
As Green Sky Thinking begins, founder Victoria Thornton urges the construction industry to keep sustainability on the agenda even if the government won’t