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OpinionIs laser scanning a utopian solution for surveying buildings?
Drawings of existing buildings are often out of date, which is where laser scanning comes in
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OpinionHousing the UK is an opportunity not a crisis
We have enough homes but they’re owned by the wrong people, argues BD’s student columnist
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OpinionFinally, some smart thinking about Garden Cities
BD columnist Hank Dittmar lauds Urbed’s prize-winning plans and urges politcians to do likewise
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OpinionEvery picture tells a (tall) story
BD columnist Gillian Darley on the sleights of hand CGIs create
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OpinionWhat did Scotland do for architecture?
Scotland’s architectural pedigree goes back well before the 1707 Act of Union, and whatever the result of the referendum, its architects will continue to transform the built environment well beyond the bonnie braes of their homeland, says Ike Ijeh
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OpinionArles' towering folly
The ancient French town has no need for Frank Gehry’s flashy intervention, argues BD’s editor-at-large Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionShaking hands with the devil
Should architectural ambition ever yield to other considerations, asks BD’s student columnist
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OpinionDon't mistake the means for the end
BIM is useful but don’t let the software dictate the design, says Russell Curtis
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OpinionEven modernism is history now
The Lords were right to identify heritage as a living thing, argues BD columnist Hank Dittmar
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OpinionHead in the clouds: 5 great new airports
Airports are now so focused on processing huge numbers of people safely that the glamour of aviation has been left behind. Ike Ijeh explores five of the newest terminals that have managed to buck the trend
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OpinionWhy architecture won't be an election issue any time soon
The profession must use its creativity to raise its profile, argues BD’s student columnist
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OpinionIn praise of architecture's Romantic Pragmatists
BD columnist Gillian Darley celebrates the architecture of quiet ambition
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OpinionBIM Level 2: defying definition
Achieving 5D BIM will be a slow process, says David Shepherd
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OpinionGlorious Georgians
Georgian architecture celebrates its 300th birthday this month, but how will our buildings be remembered in three centuries’ time?
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Opinion'Too academic, sensitive and complex for corporate London'
Ben Derbyshire recalls his friend Richard MacCormac
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OpinionDon't listen to me: what do I know?
BD’s new student columnist, Eleanor Jolliffe, argues that students are the last people who should be consulted by educational reformers
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OpinionArchitecture has lost one of its great characters
Life with Richard MacCormac was never dull, recalls BD editor Thomas Lane
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OpinionWhat is the Green Belt for?
It’s time to start building houses on London’s protected cordon, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionFirst Look: Heneghan Peng's Greenwich school of architecture
BD takes a look round the architect’s new library and School of Architecture and Construction for the University of Greenwich