All Opinion articles – Page 74
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OpinionDoes the RIBA need to start paying its presidents?
Yes, says Andrew Hanson, an honorarium would be helpful, while Owen Luder says it might attract candidates drawn by the money
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Paying the price
The recent story of architectural students being offered work at a rate of pay close to or below the minimum wage was deeply depressing but perhaps not entirely surprising given the current economic situation
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Status update
I do not think the Social Mobility Foundation should be encouraging youngsters from deprived backgrounds into architecture (News April 9)
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Basildon blues
Chris Phillips isn’t the only architect standing for election (News April 9), and nor are the Conservatives the only choice — at least in the so-called bellwether constituency of Basildon and Billericay, where I am standing for the Liberal Democrats
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OpinionSteel beats wood to Olympic gold
Timber should have been the star of the ‘sustainable’ 2012 Games
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OpinionDanger of sidelining building
Election pledges to defend public sector jobs ignore our responsibility to decrease carbon emissions
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OpinionCabe gives me engage rage
Le Corbusier must be turning in his grave at the modern obsession with ‘engaging the public’
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Invest in future
I must take issue with your slightly dimmed memory about design standards (“New Labour’s sorry legacy”, Leader April 1). If the quality of design and construction undertaken between 1979 and 1997 the laissez faire design-and-build era is anything to go by, heaven help the built environment if the Tories return
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OpinionIs Scotland set to repeat the mistakes of Kickstart?
Yes, says Malcolm Fraser of Malcolm Fraser Architects; no, argues housing minister Alex Neil, it’s vital for the nation
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OpinionPoor thinking on low pay
The issue of low or no pay for students and newly qualified architect members is clearly a matter of importance to a profession that too often gives away cheaply its unique skills
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Market mints it
Stewart Baseley from the Home Builders Federation writing about the Homes & Communities Agency’s proposed design standards (Debate April 1) is right that “it is about affordability”, but finding room for snooker tables is not the problem
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OpinionWaste watchers
With reference to Jonathan Glancey’s entertaining column (April 9) in which he suggests a book about Pevsner/Nairn Post-Thatcher/ New Labour Subtopian Trashpiles of Britain, I’ll happily chip in a fiver towards his advance
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OpinionShould architects welcome a change of government?
Yes, says Chris Phillips, architects will benefit from Conservative proposals; while Paul Fletcher says the current government has a good track record
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OpinionWind chill factor
You have rightly sparked off a debate on the thorny question of whether faith in wind power is misplaced (Leader March 26)
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Not so cushy
After some 27 years as a professional interior designer/decorator it frequently ruffles my feathers — never mind those in cushions — to find that interior design is still considered by many as a “housewives’ hobby” (Opinion March 19, and Letters March 26 and April 1)
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Support fair pay
BD’s recent articles on low pay give an unclear picture of both my views and the institute’s position on this important issue
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OpinionThe land that Pevsner forgot
No one is charting the new buildings that are springing up to swamp our cities
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OpinionHow Londoners lost the space race
The 100 Public Spaces scheme would have given the city its Olympic legacy