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OpinionOverappreciated London buildings
I couldn’t contain my amusement to see in your In the Gallery section of BD, an exhibition at the Design Museum titled A Celebration of Under-appreciated London Buildings.
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OpinionShine new light on care homes
The living spaces in the “residents’ quarters” of 51N4E’s care home extension in Nevele, Belgium, are apparently designed to open onto the wide single-banked corridors ( Buildings May 17 ).
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OpinionGive us the facts about asbestos
Please can we have more information about the deemed responsibility of architects in this distressing and dreadful matter (“ Architects count cost of asbestos ”, Business May 24).
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OpinionCompetitions should prize clarity
Entrants are right to be angry over the RIBA’s McCarthy Stone contest, says Ellis Woodman
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OpinionWestminster needs a grade I expert
Excluding conservation specialists from this massive renovation job is absurd, sys Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionWe need real homes, not ivory towers
All over the world, we are building identikit residential towers that are part-time occupied, non-adaptable and a blight on each nation’s built heritage
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OpinionAre we designing the right housing for an ageing populace?
While some architects are blazing a trail in the care homes sector, is enough being done to meet demand?
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OpinionDesign review is key to success
Research that Broadway Malyan carried out last year affirmed that two-thirds of developers in our sample of 50 firms think that design review is important.
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OpinionCare homes are real homes too
One of the greatest challenges in designing a care home must surely be to empathise with the human condition at what is the most distressing stage of life — to create a “home” within an essentially institutional building typology.
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OpinionScience faces up to the future
I read the article on the future of classicism with interest ( News May 10 ).
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OpinionAn alternative route to study
The Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales offers an alternative part II course — which I am so happy with and actually enjoy ( Speaking Out May 24 ).
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OpinionMather’s office deserves the chance to prove itself
Peabody Essex decision shows the dangers of identifying a practice with a star name, says Ellis Woodman
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OpinionFringe benefits?
William Palin examines the threat from rising land values to some of London’s most cherished areas
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OpinionVenice Biennale needs more than wow factor
Koolhaas’s intellectual ambition could stave off extinction, writes Ellis Woodman
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OpinionIt’s green to think we can hit zero carbon
The housebuilding industry is just not ready for a 2016 deadline
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OpinionIs the influx of foreign architects harming India’s built heritage?
Essential modernisation, or senseless globalisation?
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OpinionHampton Court controversy
The “carbuncle” speech, made when Charles Correa received his RIBA gold medal in 1984 ( Analysis May 17 ), was made at Hampton Court Palace (not the Mansion House) as the wonderful setting for the RIBA’s 150th anniversary.
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OpinionIs out-of-town out of time?
Retail habits are changing so fast that even the retailers are not sure what will happen next ( Speaking Out May 17 ).