All Opinion articles – Page 2
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Carlos Moreno’s 15-Minute City: Visionary urbanism or just recycled ideas?
Carlos Moreno champions the 15-Minute City as a revolutionary approach to urban living, but is it truly innovative or simply a repackaging of familiar ideas, asks David Rudlin
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I saw the Co-op Live site with my own eyes three months ago. These delays do not come as a surprise
The UK’s largest arena was still far from being finished when Building went to see it in early February, says Tom Lowe
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Let’s avoid the green belt becoming a giant cul-de-sac
Labour says it wants to build housing on the ‘grey belt’, but how can architects help ensure this doesn’t end up as just more suburban sprawl, asks Chloë Phelps
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Drawing for urban design: The fine line between vision and delusion
Idealised renderings of landscapes and urban design schemes are not new, but we should beware using images as a stand-in for real understanding, writes David Rudlin
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‘Could do better’: RIBA conference delivers verdict on Building Safety Act progress
Emma Dent Coad reports from the recent RIBA conference on the Building Safety Act
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Is the lack of ornament in architecture a barrier to diversity?
Modernism’s stripped back aesthetic could be seen as inclusive, but is it actually an impediment to diversity, asks Ben Flatman
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Why recruiters must constantly adapt to attract the best staff
Many potential candidates may not even be actively looking for a job, which means employers need to utilise a wide range of strategies, writes Jimmy Bent
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‘His legacy will stand for generations’: Chris Dyson pays tribute to artist Richard Serra
The Chris Dyson Architects founder describes how he has been influenced by the American abstract artist, who died this week at the age of 85
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The procurement system is crushing smaller businesses - it needs reform
Our public procurement processes are not serving the best interests of consultants or the end users, writes David Rudlin
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Mall-Ware: How Britain’s shopping centres went from saviours to wreckers of the high street
Planning largely saved Britain’s town centres from the ravages of out of town shopping, but that just forced the malls onto the high street, writes David Rudlin
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A resilient jobs market reflects cautious optimism for the year ahead
A challenging context for public sector and infrastructure work is offset by a buoyant commercial and life sciences sector, writes Jimmy Bent
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Traffic in Towns: 60 years on from Colin Buchanan’s prophetic report
On the 60th anniversary of the landmark publication David Rudlin asks whether there has ever been a report that has done more damage to our cities
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COP 28: Net zero buildings by 2050? You have got to be joking!
To have any chance of achieving net zero buildings we need a sea change in approaches to design, writes Susan Roaf
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What Thomas the Tank Engine can tell us about HS2
Unnecessarily onerous regulation contributes to the high cost of building railways in the UK, writes David Rudlin
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We’re seeing a return to a more balanced jobs market
Many sectors are growing and job seekers have plenty of opportunity to explore their career options, writes Jimmy Bent
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Mæ’s winning project revives medieval tradition of treating older people with the dignity they deserve
This Stirling Prize winner places a much-needed focus on how we house and support people later in their lives
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Change requires designers to stick their necks out and propose what a better future might be
Having put out a call for an alternative to the term ‘master plan’ David Rudlin reviews some of the many suggestions
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Sunak’s speech revealed the Tories are bereft of ideas, but what does Labour have to offer?
All eyes will be on Labour during the coming week, but there is little so far to get architects and built environment professionals excited, writes Ben Flatman
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Our 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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Master 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