All Opinion articles – Page 52
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OpinionWhen heritage becomes a dirty word
Alan Bennett’s new play voices a forceful objection to the habit of reducing historic buildings to objects of spectacle
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OpinionUCL’s Stratford plans must strike a delicate balance
Negotiations over the university’s scheme for a Carpenters Estate campus should look to King’s Cross as an example
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OpinionCan cities be stormproof by design?
Hurricane Sandy is a reminder that is too easily forgotten
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OpinionLasdun’s drawings find a global home
Digitisation means the location of an architect’s archive is less important than the quality of its preservation
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OpinionRobin Hood Gardens deserves better
Aedas’s ill-defined and over-developed new designs lack the urban vision of the Smithsons
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OpinionPeople like old houses for a reason, Alain
Alain de Botton’s comments perpetuate the rift between the public and designers
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OpinionArchitects must be at the heart of regulations reform
If the profession doesn’t make its presence felt, the regulations review will succumb to the influence of vested interests
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OpinionLondoners have that sinking feeling
The demise of Gensler’s floating park shows that privately funded schemes need closer scrutiny
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OpinionNow they’ll jail you for rocking the boat
Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield’s imprisonment tells us about the changes to our public space
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OpinionYoung architects deserve better than a pop-up future
This year’s YAYA shortlist offers hope, but what the profession needs is a new generation of good clients
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OpinionV&A learns too late to pick an architect, not a design
Kengo Kuma’s troubled Dundee scheme calls the whole competition process into question
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OpinionManser win blurs the boundaries
It may have been the best house on the shortlist, but Saturday’s wildcard winner has kicked off a new debate over eligibility
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OpinionWhat happened to Nairn’s townscape?
Many architects have no idea what to do with ‘thrown together’ British cities
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OpinionAbolishing Arb would be in step with Tory times
The reality is that architects would be better off lobbying community minister Don Foster to reform Arb
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OpinionThe world’s great cities are under threat
From Aleppo to St Petersburg, historic cities are crumbling within a political vacuum
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OpinionKahn’s vision of freedom lives on
Nearly 40 years after his death, the newly completed Four Freedoms Park accurately reflects its architect’s design
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OpinionIt’s time to stop sulking and face the new school realities
The RIBA and the profession need to knuckle down and make themselves indispensable to the government’s education plans
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OpinionDesign Council Cabe stalls at the lights
The new Building for Life standards mark a change in emphasis
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OpinionIf Renzo Piano is not an architect…
Arb’s request that foreign designers should not be able to use the word ‘architect’ is very bizarre indeed
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OpinionSelf-build has little to offer architects
The call to rejoin the self-build movement is seductive but there are likely to be few opportunities