All Opinion articles – Page 29
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OpinionThe view from up here can change the way you feel down there
It is still relatively novel for Londoners to be able to look down on their city from on high. As opportunities grow, there could be an unexpected benefit, says Martyn Evans
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OpinionThink you're an open-minded free-thinker? Think again
Don’t be so quick to condemn those who hold a different point of view, whether they are Brexiteers or Toby Young, says Simon Henley
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OpinionA hundred years ago we decided to build homes fit for heroes. What happened?
Tudor Walters, Parker Morris and Parker Boris. Radiograms and MP3s. Julia Park gets out a tape measure and a dictionary
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OpinionCan smart urban design tackle the rise of nationalism?
Jane Jacobs’ ideas about the role of the city in creating community cohesion and promoting sustainable development could be usefully applied to those disaffected communities who voted for Brexit, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionIt is right to be concerned but now is not the time to panic
Residency rules, lack of political leadership and a slowing economy. Problems from the Brexit fallout are piling up but the UK’s world economy status will eventually pull us through, says Aukett Swanke’s Nicholas Thompson
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OpinionDon't panic. It's going to be a rough ride but we will get through this
The new normal is going to be an extended period of uncertainty. But architects are very adaptable, says Thomas Lane
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OpinionWhy are you giving £250,000 to another vanity project, Sadiq?
Amanda Baillieu takes issue with the proposal to light up 17 of London’s bridges with a permanent installation
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OpinionArchitects might be naive but they're not powerless when it comes to novation
It’s up to architects to convince developers that it’s in their interests to retain them, says Martyn Evans
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OpinionWe’re older but are we any wiser?
Persuading older people to downsize unlocks homes for others. Yet just 3% of new units are designed for elderly people. Julia Park asks whether a new report has any answers
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OpinionWhat Trump’s wall says about American politics
Eleanor Jolliffe congratulates the US presidential hopeful on his measured and carefully thought-through proposal
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OpinionFalse distinction between design and delivery architects is killing the profession
Constant re-tendering is a waste of money - and is also depriving young architects of valuable experience, warns Grimshaw’s Mark Middleton
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OpinionUrban recycling and doubling-up: How cities really respond to growth
Adapting existing stock could have a bigger impact on the housing crisis than mass construction. Hank Dittmar draws some parallels from wartime Washington DC
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OpinionTransparency is essential as the UK relies on private cash for public projects
Investors are eyeing up our public assets and we must ensure the country gets a good deal, says Thomas Lane
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OpinionYou're not writing a great tragic novel. You're designing places for people to live
Architecture is not the place to work through our collective guilt. Leave that to the poets and artists, says Leon Krier
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OpinionPlanners: Your country needs you (but no one will admit it)
In the UK we push planners to the margins. In the Netherlands their expertise is valued by government. Which do you think is working best, asks Gillian Darley
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OpinionIt's your museum and you can sleep in it if you want to
As Tate Modern prepares to open its extension and the V A plots its eastern outpost, Amanda Baillieu questions whether museums can still dazzle us
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OpinionIf we’re to build good places, architects and developers need to learn to trust each other
Get round a table and talk, Martyn Evans tells clients and designers. But don’t talk about buildings - talk about people
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OpinionWhen it comes to housing it's people who count, not units per hectare
There are endless ways of calculating density, each with a different physical and social outcome. Julia Park does the maths
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OpinionAs London builds tall, we urgently need to rethink the rules governing 'public space'
If they are putting us in flats, developers and politicians need to be realistic about our need to be ourselves outside
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OpinionSadiq Khan, you need to read these reports by Boris' design advisors
London’s new mayor has his work cut out on housing and planning, but he has plenty of excellent advice to draw on, says Hank Dittmar