All Opinion articles – Page 73
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OpinionGove gets off to a bad start
The new education secretary’s ill-informed remarks suggests he has little understanding of architecture
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Ask the members
GKV Tomlinson’s Letter of the Week (“RIBA fails to fight our corner” April 30) is one of the best I have seen in Building Design
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Baby steps?
Does anyone out there know why the building regulations say that a railing to a stairs must be constructed so a 100mm diameter sphere cannot pass through the railings at any point
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OpinionIs RIBA showing the signs of an organisation in crisis?
Yes, says Chris Roche, as exemplified by the failure of many council members to declare their interests; but Andrew Hanson argues that the RIBA exists to do far more than promote its members’ interests
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Don’t forget us
John Kellett (Letters April 23) says architects are the only professionals qualified to design buildings from conception to completion
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OpinionLet’s keep politicians out of it
Whoever wins the election, we don’t want them meddling with architecture
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In need of new leadership
The next RIBA president must be someone willing to fight architects’ corner
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Learn from this
“Job losses are also expected at the Business Academy, Bexley, which has a £500,000 budget deficit brought about by expensive repairs to its £31 million Norman Foster building.” Times Educational Supplement reporting on teacher redundancies
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RIBA stands by as we lose work
Jane Duncan, RIBA practice vice-president, emailed members last week on low pay
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OpinionPatrolling the windowbox war zone
Whatever the scale, it’s not always easy to reach consensus in battles over our environment
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OpinionBad neighbours
It was encouraging to see coverage of a project in so-unfashionable an area as Balsall Heath (Zero Carbon House Solutions April 23) and indeed encouraging to see that so much worthiness in carbon reduction and materials recycling had been achieved at the very competitive cost of just £1,160 per sq ...
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OpinionShould design be blamed for ‘Broken Britain’?
No, says Stephen Hill, politicians are responsible; while George Ferguson argues that bad design has led to the loss of social space
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Plus ça change
“The appropriation of unpaid labour is the basic form of the capitalist mode of production and of the exploitation of the worker; that even if the capitalist buys the labour power of his labourer at its full value as a commodity on the market, he yet extracts more value from ...
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OpinionWe must heed volcanic wake-up call
The importance of resilient, sustainable design has been brought home by the eruption in Iceland
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OpinionRIBA failed to fight our corner
As a retired architect I am very proud of the stand taken by my son Keith on the pathetic performance of the RIBA over the low pay issue
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OpinionDon’t let them off the hook
The construction industry has failed to take the three main parties to task over where public sector cuts will fall
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OpinionTime is ripe to revive the ‘Rippon’ effect
By ensuring small-scale urban buildings are protected, we have saved some places, but have we gone far enough?
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Labour of love
While there are inevitable criticisms that can be levelled at Labour’s record, we recognise that architecture has generally done well under them
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A phoney war
I am disappointed by the way you reported the issue of trainee architects’ low pay — and your insinuation that the RIBA and its president do not recognise that this is a very real issue
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Listen again
In reading Anna Winston’s article (“Sound decisions” IT April 16), I was very much reminded of the title of a text on acoustics for architecture students entitled “Deaf architects and blind acousticians”