All Opinion articles – Page 12
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OpinionPut architects in charge of designing home information packs
If we’re to meet the zero carbon target we need to educate the people who will live in our homes, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionWhat we know so far about how building safety regulations are changing
As all the clause numbers you committed to memory change, Andrew Mellor decodes the new guidance and what it will mean for architects
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OpinionHow Aberdeen’s homogeneity helped it survive the boom years
Gillian Darley on the Granite City’s enduring materiality
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OpinionCities are complex. Developers need the courage to embrace that
If we are to make really interesting places it will take collaboration - and risk, says Martyn Evans
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OpinionIt’s in your commercial interests – and a moral duty – to protect your staff’s minds
Too many practices still treat their greatest asset with contempt, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionHow to make planning a cause célèbre
Ordinary people are clueless about the faults of our planning system. We have to find a way to engage them, says Elizabeth Hopkirk
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OpinionHow the Hackitt consultation will affect your practice
BD’s expert columnist explains how the new hurdles to getting projects over the line will work
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OpinionYou need to talk about succession
If you run a practice you should already be thinking about what happens once you’ve gone, says Mark Middleton
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OpinionNairn was right to despair of York
Gillian Darley finds herself confounded by the city’s planners
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OpinionYou can’t programme public space, however much you’d like to
Open spaces are different from buildings and require a humbler approach from designers, says David Rudlin
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OpinionPride is a reminder for us all to be a bit more humane
Thoughtless language and design can exclude people who are different, says Martyn Evans
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OpinionThose vying to be PM must look beyond their party and engage with a country crying out for real change
Centralised control has infantilised us and eroded the built environment. It’s time to put the government into special measures
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OpinionLessons from a loose researcher
Never trust other people’s statistics, says Julia Park. There’s always a risk someone put a decimal point in the wrong place
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OpinionDoes the RIBA really need to tell architects this stuff?
Eleanor Jolliffe takes issue with the way the new code of conduct infantilises the profession
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OpinionSend MPs to the tower – 22 Bishopsgate, that is
Protecting a building as significant as Parliament requires tough decisions and a dose of humility, says Elizabeth Hopkirk
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OpinionWe must start making decisions about construction’s role in climate change
For instance, product manufacturers must provide easily comparable information so design teams can make informed decisions, says Andrew Mellor
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OpinionRecalling the bloody battle to bring life to King’s Cross
Gillian Darley assesses the decades-long redevelopment against its hard-won environmental goals
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OpinionLocal democracy is not all potholes and bins
Quality architecture and placemaking need respected, well-resourced, self-confident local government, says David Rudlin