All Opinion articles – Page 71
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Garden of Edam
Terry Brown’s comment (Letters June 11) on my article about Dutch-style intensive farming (Opinion June 4) misunderstands my point, which is that if we insist on cheap food and start to grow more of it in Britain, our countryside could become a hi-tech dystopia similar to that of the Netherlands.
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Let’s focus on improvement
As the Treasury anticipates efficiency measures which will inevitably impact on capital expenditure in construction, it may like to have a mind to the effect Building Schools for the Future (Debate June 11) has had on maintenance regimes within the secondary school sector.
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A head of steam
Owen Hatherley is right to bemoan the basic, utilitarian character of the new structures on the revived East London Line (Works June 11), but, although he tells us he lives in south-east London, he writes with all the myopia of the north Londoner who thinks that civilisation only exists where ...
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Learning process
The question of whether money has been wasted on school design work (Debate June 11) is not so clear cut. The Building Schools for the Future process has its pros and its cons.
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OpinionZero-carbon report could backfire
To most of us the financial crisis has been a reality check, not pleasant but necessary. But for environmentalists the penny is taking longer to drop .This is because they believe their cause is more important than anything else.
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OpinionTime to build on the Cold War legacy
Scrapping the nuclear budget would enable us to build our way out of recession
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OpinionIt's not gardens that are the problem
The end of so-called ‘garden grabbing’ in fact marks an abandonment of the the policies set out by the Urban Task Force.
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Correction: 11 June 2010
Contrary to our story on page 2 last week, there is no current threat of redundancies at Nightingale Associates following its sale to Canadian firm, IBI Group. BD would like to apologise for the error.
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OpinionHow the other half builds
The gap between low-cost housing and luxury developments grows ever wider.
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OpinionGrand designs
David Nixon’s piece on the International Space Station (Works June 4) was just brilliant. Great pictures and layout
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Less than zero
BD June 4: zero-carbon 28 unit affordable housing at Basildon, £5.7 million pound development (News)
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OpinionLet’s nurture nature
I know architects are supposed to prize architecture above all, but some of us are concerned about agriculture too; concerned enough not to condone a glib formalistic view of how crops should be raised and animals husbanded
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Upwardly mobile
Regulation-free or child-free zone? Please, have some respect for the kids of today (Letters May 21).
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OpinionPricey principles
Your report on Tooley & Foster’s “zero carbon”housing in Basildon (News June 4) made my eyebrows shoot upwards so far that Nasa is thinking of using them as replacement shuttles to the International Space Station
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Technical terms
Architectural “draughtsmen” did not get together to form their own organisation (Letters May 28)
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Where now for Battersea Power Station?
Years ago I had the pleasure of spending an evening with Rafael Vinoly. It began with a certain amount of drama as he insisted on driving down a one way street on the way to the restaurant.
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Why do architects choose names that require a BBC pronunciation manual?
If Buschow Henley wasn’t bad enough, the practice has now rebranded and come up with Henley Halebrown Rorrison guaranteed to be as troublesome to BBC newsreaders as al-Qa’eda and J K Rowling.
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Another day, another reason to lay into Michael Gove
Gove’s gaffes aren’t quite up there with Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive. On the other hand it takes quite a lot to stir RIBA and by yesterday it was sufficiently wound up by the education secretary’s latest comment to put out a press release.
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Architecture’s final frontier
The Pantheon and the International Space Station share the ability of great buildings to inspire wonder