More Opinion – Page 29
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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
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OpinionWhat record shops can teach the high street
Our high streets are struggling, but the spirit of the independent record shop could point the way towards recovery, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionThe successful handover of our top practices matters to all of us
The UK’s top practices play a critical role in the life of the architectural profession and wider economy. Who runs them when their founders move on really does matter, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionConservation and the climate emergency
Our built heritage has an important role to play in addressing the climate emergency. We must allow it to adapt, writes Laura Baron
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OpinionAccessibility legislation is for everyone, not just the few
Proposed changes to the Part M building regulations will make level access manadatory in all new homes. We should embrace the change and go further still, writes Simone de Gale
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OpinionLet’s get real
Rigid dogma about what is and is not ’authentic’ has hamstrung architects. We need to break out of these shackles and recognise that all architecture is drawing from the past, writes Robert Adam
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OpinionKwarteng out, Hunt in? Who needs TV satirists when we have the Liz Truss show?
The UK is in unprecedented political turmoil, devoid of any strategy and increasingly resembling a Chris Morris satire, writes Andrew Teacher
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OpinionExcellence is the real winner in this year’s Stirling Prize
The Stirling has sometimes been used by the judges to indulge in virtue signalling, but this year it simply recognises brilliant architecture, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionLiz Truss could do worse than listening to King Charles
Ben Derbyshire has seen King Charles’ passion for housing design and planning up close. Here he lists the areas on which the new monarch is likely to provide private advice to prime ministers
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OpinionDid we really always hate modernism?
People are drawn to good modern architecture, writes David Rudlin. It’s just the bad urbanism that lets it down
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OpinionIf we are heading into a downturn, it’s not yet impacting the jobs market
We may be living in the shadow of a looming downturn, but there is still strong demand for good staff, writes Jimmy Bent
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OpinionEngineering the future: we need to stop designing buildings backwards
We need to think about the structural and services guts of a building right from the start of the design process, writes Alex Lynes
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OpinionDay four at the Tory conference: Truss bets the bank on low tax and the magic money tree
Liz Truss is promising that reducing tax will magically reverse Britain’s economic decline but history suggests there are no easy fixes, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionDay three at the Tory conference: Rees-Mogg tinkers while business despairs
Government is ignoring the experts as uncertainty reigns and the business secretary promises more unwanted regulatory changes, writes Ben Flatman