All Opinion articles – Page 33
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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
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OpinionJob-hunting for part IIs
Eleanor Jolliffe on the terror of the architectural job hunt, the fevered world of CVs, portfolios and secret knowledge
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OpinionLondon needs a walker's charter
The first two London mayors championed buses and bikes. The next one should put pedestrians first, argues Hank Dittmar
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OpinionOn what might have been
Unbuilt, unused and unappreciated. Gillian Darley explores architectural waste in all its forms
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OpinionIke Ijeh damns the Stirling Prize shortlist
This year’s shortlist compares badly alongside a building like No1 Poultry, writes BD’s architecture critic
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OpinionWhy Osborne was right to take back planning powers
We had our chance and were found wanting, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionHealing the rift between architecture, politics and finance
It’s in everyone’s interests to reform the planning system but those with the power have no overview and those with the overview have no power, argues Ruth Lang
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OpinionOn finishing part II
BD’s student columnist looks back on the last seven years of study and assesses how much has changed
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OpinionThe High Line has a lot to answer for
Hank Dittmar questions whether landscape urbanism offers cities anything more than window dressing