All Opinion articles – Page 63
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Winter’s words should leave us cold
John Winter is wrong to tar all our ’modern’ architects with the same brush
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Back to the drawing board
Architecture schools need to rethink more than business skills training if the profession is to survive
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The only certainty is change
A new report spells out how the profession must learn to adapt to survive
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Be careful whose nation you build
The Libyan crisis highlights the dangers of doing business with dictators
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Cabe must adapt to survive
In the face of a funding conundrum, the quango needs to embrace reinvention.
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Be careful what you wish for, Dave
The government might get more than it bargains for from the Big Society
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A purpose far beyond books
Libraries provide communities with a vital physical infrastructure, so closures sit ill with the notion of the Big Society.
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Closing the libraries is just the start
Localism seems to require a near impossible suspension of disbelief
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Gove cannot go it alone
The government announced last week that Building Schools for the Future is to be replaced by a programme within which all projects will be based on one of six standardised templates.
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Initiatives need solid foundations too
Stop-start policy-making can never make for good architecture
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News
David Chipperfield: ‘In London there is no discussion about what the city should look like’
On the eve of the 2011 RIBA Gold Medal presentation, this year’s winner gives Ellis Woodman a preview of his lecture
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Housebuilding’s catch-22
In order to cut building costs, the industry needs to spend on technical innovation
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What is the problem with the prince?
Prince Charles’s environmental aims are those you’d want in a developer. So what is it that rankles?
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Modern methods stumble
The Oxley Woods u-turn only shows that prefabricated housing must be built on a bigger scale to be economically viable.
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Renovation means goodbye to Berlin
The history and chaos of the 20th century is embodied in the now-threatened Tacheles.
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Rich raises question of trust
A debate on the wisdom of axing the RIBA Trust would provide a welcome focus on the institute eroding cultural activities
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Plutocrats or squatters? Your choice
Two towers in different cities give architects a glimpse of the future.
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Time to take a wider view
BD’s expanded coverage of overseas news reflects a changing market for architects
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Riba needs to reach out to the public
The demise of the Riba Trust risks ruling the institute out of crucial public debate.
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Let’s see an end to City excess
The introduction of out-of-scale groundscrapers such as Make’s proposed HQ for UBS are a symptom of City planners’ fears