All Opinion articles – Page 32
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OpinionWhen will Stirling laureates be allowed to quote from Wren?
If pastiche is so bad, why is it OK to be influenced by Breuer or the Smithsons, asks Hank Dittmar
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OpinionBurntwood School Stirling Prize win an underwhelming choice
This year’s Stirling Prize proved an unusual choice, but could it be a political one too, asks Ike Ijeh
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OpinionThe Housing Bill simply doesn’t add up
The new laws will only help people who can already afford to help themselves and does nothing to address the real problems, argues Julia Park
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OpinionWhen collaboration works
Mutual respect, like that between Kim Wilkie and Niall McLaughlin at the Natural History Museum, is key for partnerships to flourish, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionProtesters are wrong to target Neo Bankside and hipsters eating cereal
We should be less worried about gentrification than about the complete failure to provide for communities like Barking Riverside, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionIS's attack on humanity's shared origins exposes the weakness of its ideology
Blowing up Palmyra is about power and money not cultural cleansing, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionYou’ve got to hand it to post-modernism
It took capitalism and consumer nostalgia to rescue our brutal utopias, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionArchitects must be allowed to finish what they start
It’s time to end the damaging separation between concept design and delivery architect which was highlighted by the RIBA Client and Architect report, argues Roddy Langmuir
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OpinionArchitecture and freedom – a contested connection
With architectural production becoming ever more beholden to the needs of capital and the building industry, the Royal Academy’s Owen Hopkins introduces a season of events that explores what freedom might mean for architects – and architecture – now and in the future
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OpinionFraying at the edge
Barking Riverside? This isolated settlement is neither, finds Gillian Darley
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OpinionHodder: Industry values architects for our creativity, passion and technical ability
There is much for the profession to be optimistic about, says Stephen Hodder as he steps down as president of the RIBA
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OpinionThis report on clients is required reading
Rab Bennetts says the RIBA report on clients is a wake-up call for the profession
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OpinionFlood-proof? Designing against the tide
Our attitude to rising sea levels remains as defensive as ever. With 20% of British homes now at risk, this is a mistake, says Robert Barker
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OpinionThe continuing evolution of the BD Architect of the Year Awards
BD editor Thomas Lane explains how the awards have got bigger
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OpinionMost clients would dispense with architects if they could
Architects have become the whipping boy for clients’ failure to produce great buildings, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionCarbuncle Cup: There but for the grace of God go all of us
Many of the architects nominated for the Carbuncle Cup are also RIBA Award-winning practices. How do talented professionals sometimes get it so badly wrong, asks Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionLondon's housing problems are beyond the power of market forces to solve
The global pressures shaping London’s built environment now include the Airbnb effect, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionPhilip Webb can't avoid the limelight for ever
In his centenary year, it is time to make a fuss of William Morris’ unassuming collaborator, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionWe did all that research and you did what?!
Cabe’s reports were admired for their quality but too often gathered dust on influential desks. Writing exclusively for BD, former chief executive Richard Simmons offers some advice to those struggling to influence policy today
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OpinionHonest House – the real reality property show
If programmes like Ugly House and Grand Designs had any basis in reality the results would be rather different, suggests Amanda Baillieu