More Opinion – Page 124
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Breeam holds us all to ransom
The biggest challenge to the design of energy-efficient buildings in the UK is the monopoly that created and guards the criteria for their assessment (Leader February 3).
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OpinionProblems that predate a design
Cambridge’s recent procurement study misses a central reason why buildings end up in disputes
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OpinionA lesson from post-industrial Kent
Industrial wreckage, pleasure boats and an art school make for a unique mixed-use development in Chatham
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OpinionDebate: Should the coalition scrap Breeam?
Yes, says Jonathan Hines, it is holding back progress; but Mel Starrs says it is vital to ensuring that sustainability remains on the agenda
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Rogers could learn from us
In light of his calls for educational reform (News February 3), Richard Rogers should know that since 2000 UWE Bristol has offered a joint RIBA/RTPI-validated architecture and planning BA.
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OpinionExhibition Road: a different view
Ellis Woodman’s extraordinarily uncritical piece about the £25 million “shared-space” makeover of Exhibition Road (“Streets ahead” February 3) seems to accept without question the functional principles that underpin the scheme and the aesthetic outcome.
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OpinionThe real picture in Rome
Your piece on the Olympic Village Rome (Inspiration February 3) must be a spoof unless those of us who have been trying to make better places for the last decades have been completely misguided.
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OpinionRogers' broader education risks also being shallower
Architecture students have enough to learn in their first three years without further spreading the curriculum
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OpinionGlancey is designed out
Guardian critic departs, music to de Botton’s ears, and we welcome our newest reader — the Queen
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OpinionEngineered into ugliness
Dixon Jones’s shared space scheme on Exhibition Road points the way to the high street’s survival
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OpinionRunning the rule over charter cities
Trouble with emigrating citizens? Why not have a western nation run a new city for you?
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OpinionWould you want to live in the London Olympic Village?
Yes, says Alex Ely, the facilities are excellent; while George Saumarez Smith would prefer somewhere less designed
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OpinionPawson’s Design Museum interior strikes right note
John Pawson’s design for the new Design Museum (News January 27) looks just fine to me.
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Fewer students means elitism
A drop in architectural student numbers cannot ever be “a good thing” (Debate January 13).
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Bad managers are a danger
Architecture is, to its discredit, plagued by poor business managers.
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OpinionBreeam has become a nice little earner
Those urging Gove to retain the green assessment method should ask whether there might be a more efficient alternative
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OpinionSticking their awe in
Alain de Botton’s ‘temples for atheists’ programme could provide an added bonus for architecture elsewhere
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OpinionSense and eccentricity
Piers Taylor’s midlife crisis may point to an alternative future for the profession
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OpinionShould we boycott the Robin Hood Gardens competition?
Yes, says Steve Smith, architects should do anything possible to protect the Smithsons’ creation; but Hans van der Heijden says architects should stick to designing buildings and leave planning questions alone