More Opinion – Page 17
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OpinionRunning water (and money) down the drain
As gas and electricity prices soar and the country moves closer to Net Zero, Stuart Williams contemplates the embodied energy we are wasting down the drain
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OpinionWhy the M&S public inquiry matters
We must seize this opportunity to change the course of construction, writes Henrietta Billings
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OpinionGentrification is the theft of home
The true meaning of place lies in the communities that hold a neighbourhood together, writes Leslie Kern
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OpinionThe new Principal Designer role is going to require upskilling
We have more clarity on the Principal Designer role but not on how they will be trained. This is likely to create barriers to delivery, writes Andrew Mellor
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OpinionWhy clean air is vital for a healthy home
We spend 90% of our time indoors, yet without proper ventilation systems in place, pollutants could be making their way into our homes. Paul Williams takes a look at the impact
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OpinionHybrid working is here to stay but many staff also want to get back to the office
Not all staff want to be working from home - many seek the learning opportunities and social interaction of the workplace, writes Jimmy Bent
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OpinionLet’s talk about interiors: Retrofit must go further than just building structure and embrace creative reuse
Designers should see it as a responsibility to reuse what is already there - including furniture, says Simon Bird, director at LOM architecture and design
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OpinionWatering down of investment zones is a missed opportunity
The weakening of the Government’s investment zones policy is a missed opportunity to re-assess how we use industrial land in the UK, writes Tim Ward
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OpinionBefore we build millions of new homes, we need to retrofit our social housing stock
Architects need to become advocates for retrofitting old buildings, especially ageing social housing, writes Chloë Phelps
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OpinionThe Coach: How the light gets in – in praise of imperfection
Perfectionists can achieve great things but they can also demotivate their teams and create cycles of negativity, writes Louise Rodgers
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OpinionWe can no longer afford to ignore the ‘green crap’
David Cameron famously said the UK had other priorities and Rishi Sunak was initially reluctant to travel to COP27. Our leaders really have no choice but to take action on climate change, says Thomas Lane
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OpinionGet close to your developer clients and learn from them
Architects must learn to read the market and demonstrate specialist expertise to weather the economic storm, writes Martyn Evans
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OpinionBuy your gran a cosy/cool corner for Christmas
We should focus less on heating and cooling entire buildings, and more on the comfort of the people who occupy them, writes Susan Roaf
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OpinionWhy we need foundational change in how we engage young people with the built environment
Youth centres have been closed across the UK and fewer and fewer children are studying design for GCSE. Fiona MacDonald and Matt Springett make a rallying cry for change
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OpinionWould you have turned down a World Cup stadium?
The 2022 World Cup stadiums in Qatar have been dogged by controversy around workers’ rights. Ben Flatman asks whether architects are responsible for the ethics of their clients
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from designing more resilient buildings?
Being reactive to climate change is not enough. We must anticipate new challenges and design intelligently for a new era of extreme weather, writes Anna Beckett
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OpinionWhy do we struggle to densify suburbia?
For centuries settlements densified organically over time, but our suburbs stubbornly hold out against such change. We need a new approach that allows suburbia to mature, writes Samuel Hughes
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OpinionMaking safer streets
We need to redouble our efforts to make our public spaces safe and inclusive, writes Deborah Saunt
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OpinionEngineering the future: Testing times
The built environment professions need to adopt a less risk averse approach to prototyping and testing their designs, writes Liam Bryant
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OpinionLet’s start living on this planet as if we intended to stay
The former managing director of Greenpeace, Jonathan Smales, believes that timber holds the key to building sustainable communities