More Opinion – Page 278
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OpinionA tip, Mr Armitt: time is running out
At last the ODA has a chairman, an authoritative one at that. Now can we get on with delivery?
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OpinionA new recipe for social housing
Tim Williams, chair of the Housing Corporation’s commission into social housing at the Thames Gateway, tells BD how he hopes his report can bring about a revolution in the quality of UK housing design
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OpinionQuality is the missing ingredient in the housing mix
David Levitt says the housing sector’s tick-boxing culture needs to change before architects can make a difference
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OpinionSocial housing’s ambivalent legacy
The canon of supposedly great social housing includes many schemes that people put forward as their most hated buildings
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OpinionA Century of housing
Much of the failure of multistorey housing is blamed on architects as well as the technical systems that allowed these new estates to be built cheaply and fast.
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OpinionHigh-quality design must be at the heart of social housing if it is to be truly successful
Our homes affect every aspect of our lives: our health, our wealth, our happiness.
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OpinionSocial housing requires elevated standards of design
Excellent design is more critical to social housing than most other building types. Almost 50% of social tenants are not in formal employment, and some 40% of lettings each year go to households with some sort of support need.
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OpinionSmall firms are the best innovators
The bread and butter work of up-and-coming architects is now ripe for scaling up, says young practice AOC
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OpinionWill Foster’s deal with 3i be good for the practice?
John McAslan says the deal can only be beneficial, while former partner Barry Cook wonders if it can’t help but compromise design excellence
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On the run
Norman Foster may prefer his marathons to be of the cross-country skiing sort these days, but chatting to Boots this week he recalled running in the first London Marathon in 1981.
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OpinionLeft for Wright
Among the former EH staff who contacted BD after last week’s story on the quango’s diminishing pool of architects, one who has definitely landed on his feet is former conservation director John Fidler, who moved last year to Los Angeles, where his wife is associate director of the Getty Conservation ...
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Good grief
The Royal College of Art’s Don’t Panic exhibition, which opens at the Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery on June 1, sounds like a barrel of laughs.
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Strife of Bryan
Boots reported last month that 1970s style icon Bryan Ferry had voiced admiration for the work of architect to the Nazis, Albert Speer.
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OpinionHemp offers even more
The article on hemp insulation by Roderick Bunn (Solutions May 11) quoted a U-value of 0.9W/m2K from Buro Happold for 100mm.
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Get a grip, RIBA
You hit the nail fairly and squarely on the head (Leader May 11) in asserting that the RIBA has more pressing matters to beat itself up about than registering the political affiliations of council and board members.
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Agora exists
Gareth Gwynne suggests an “agora” to showcase and debate the major architectural/built environment projects proposed for London (Letters April 27). Has he been to New London Architecture in the Building Centre?