More Opinion – Page 166
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Please keep your references to yourself
Cladding covered with pictures of knives and forks doesn’t make a building any more ’local’.
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OpinionWe need to redesign planners
Demanding a high standard of professionalism would genuinely raise our quality of life.
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Opinion3Rs: reuse, rethink, research
A hiatus in building provides the opportunity to properly research how we can get the best schools for our money.
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OpinionGove has made the right move
Though understandably frustrating for the people directly concerned, education secretary Michael Gove has done the right thing in axing the 700 or so Building Schools for the Future projects
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Small comfort
As a partner in a small architectural practice with over 15 years of experience working with schools and local authorities, we saw the BSF swallow up our workload
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Tory brutality
BSF can be criticised for many things, and wholesale change is necessary, but the brutal way in which the school programme was axed, with no consultation or evaluation of the value of projects other than what was contractually obliged, is indicative of the relish and haste at which this government ...
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Good riddance
The axing of BSF will be hard on some architects but will benefit just about everyone else
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Peer pressure
Norman Foster’s tax status could be argued to be everyone’s business, as, up until the deadline for resignation, he was a member of the House of Lords
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Respect yourself
Am I the only person who believes that nobody should be asked to work for nothing?
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OpinionIs working in China the key to success for UK practices?
Graham Cartledge says there are now openings for talented architects to lead the way in new markets, but Stephen Hodder feels success can also be built on a sense of localism
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OpinionByles and the schools fiasco
Boots was clearly, er, on the money in pointing to the rather beleaguered position of well-paid Partnerships for Schools boss Tim Byles last week.
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OpinionDon’t fear the BSF reaper
A school rebuilding programme is still necessary, and replacing Building Schools for the Future could put architects back in control.
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OpinionWhy not try living on the edge?
Street markets can be the key to breaking down barriers and creating vibrant cities
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OpinionWill the localism agenda create better architecture?
Yes says Robert Adam, it will put the focus on communities’ needs; but Roger Zogolovitch fears nimbyism will stifle innovation
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OpinionLet’s embrace western folly
Dreams and whimsies may be the perfect counterbalance to the developing world’s construction boom
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OpinionLet’s redesign planning
Our planning system may be divisive, as your leader observed last week, but it is also intended to be democratic. It fails when this requirement is not fulfilled
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Doing the sums
With the scrapping of the Building Schools for the Future programme, the affected education authorities need to realistically review their requirements – whether refurb or new build – and the government needs to review how these requirements are met – financed either through its own funding or private funding.Design teams ...
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Pay and display
In last week’s article on the RIBA’s measures to tackle low pay, the reference to students being paid “at least the minimum wage after more than six months” was incorrectly interpreted