More Opinion – Page 7
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OpinionThe unfolding RAAC crisis highlights the need for a new vision for schools
The built environment and education sectors are just waiting for the opportunity to retrofit and rebuild Britain’s schools, writes Rafael Marks
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OpinionThese are the three key drivers behind modern workplace design
Community, wellbeing, and sustainability are key to creating happy and productive office spaces, writes Katie Lin
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OpinionBirmingham used to know how to undertake community partnerships. It needs to relearn… quickly
The value that local authorities bring is partly in their institutional memories. But if a council forgets what it once used to do well, then it’s in trouble, writes Joe Holyoak
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from re-using office buildings?
We should be more flexible and creative both in making the most of existing buildings and compromising over what we require from them, writes Anna Beckett
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OpinionThe transformative power of regenerative retrofitting
We need to move beyond aspiring to be ‘less bad’, towards creating net positive good, writes Tara Gbolade
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OpinionThe Part 3 course might be nearing the end of the road, but it contains a blueprint for success
Anthony Richardson share tips on how to succeed at Part 3 and looks forward to how the current course could inform ARB’s reforms
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OpinionA Principal Designer and Contractor become a legal requirement from October, but are architects and clients ready?
With just weeks until new legislation comes into effect, architects and clients are scrambling to get ready, writes Andrew Mellor
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OpinionModernist dogma should not prevent us from rebuilding the Crooked House
The belief that we must not reconstruct badly damaged buildings is based on outdated readings of Ruskin and William Morris, writes Andy Foster
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OpinionThe British School at Rome's new summer school offers a priceless opportunity to learn and reflect
An incredibly diverse range of architects, urbanists and designers have benefitted from their time at the school, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionAll architects need to be agents of change
Let us harness architects’ collective expertise and passion to shape a profession that can deliver a built environment for the better, writes Muyiwa Oki
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OpinionThis Stirling shortlist is in tune with the times
The final six projects in contention for this year’s prize are all marked by an underlying seriousness and a tendency towards simple forms and materials, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionOur crumbling schools are just one more symptom of this government’s failure to plan for the future
We are paying the price for a lost decade of underinvestment and strategic drift on construction and the built enviroment, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionMaster plans are for Bond villains
We need to come up with a new name for master planning, but that’s no easy task, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionGenerative Design & AI Trends: ‘Pre-procurement’
In the final article of this series, Keir Regan-Alexander looks at how new technology could revolutionise approaches to technical design and procurement
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OpinionWant to know about Net Zero? Take a short hard look
With time running out to avert the worst of climate change, approaches to achieving Net Zero need to change fast, writes Susan Roaf
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OpinionPublic Practice: How my desire to be at the decision-making table drove me to join the public sector
For built environment professionals who desire to influence project outcomes and have more of a role in decision making, the public sector provides an attractive career path, writes Yemi Aladerun
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OpinionReforming the RIBA is like trying to change the course of a supertanker … but we did it
Looking back over his two-year term, departing RIBA president Simon Allford argues that substantial change has been delivered and that the profession’s future is bright
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OpinionGenerative Design & AI Trends: ‘Leveraged Drafting’
In the fourth article of this series, Keir Regan-Alexander looks at ‘Leveraged Drafting’ and how it could dramatically increase productivity
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OpinionWhy I'm committed to demystifying funding for architects-turned-developer
By working with specialist lenders, architect-developers can leverage their own investment and get more creative ideas off the ground, writes Roxana Mohammadian-Molin
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OpinionHow becoming a better businesswoman helped put me in control as an architect
The education system fails architects by not teaching them business skills. To survive as a profession architects need to embrace their role as businesspeople, writes Catherine Hunt