All Opinion articles – Page 12
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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
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OpinionHow (not) to win awards
Too many practices fall into the same traps, says Mark Middleton who has been both judge and competitor over the years
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OpinionIt's not just Labour that's getting behind a land value tax
It’s been talked about for over a century but all attempts to introduce it have been short-lived. That could be about to change, says Julia Park
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OpinionIs it time to ban glass skyscrapers?
Ben Flatman asks why London’s masonry vernacular has been ignored by so many of its tall buildings
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OpinionIt’s only a matter of time before clients start demanding VR walkthroughs
Could the RIBA plan of work be changed by a BBC property show, asks Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionToo much of what we have built in the last 10 years is fit only to be torn down
In a column that should make everyone angry, Andrew Mellor blows the whistle on some shocking failures
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OpinionThe communities where neighbourliness is part of the design
Gillian Darley hails a new generation learning from the Quakers