All Opinion articles – Page 91
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FeaturesMrs Beckett: style icon or menace?
Margaret Beckett is back in government, this time as housing minister, but will her love of caravaning lead to more flexible attitudes on how to address the UK’s housing needs?
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OpinionPrickly problems at Shanghai
Finding some meaningful content for the British pavilion at the 2010 expo brings back memories of the Millennium Dome
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Opinion
Does architecture operate like an old boys’ club?
Of course — look at the figures, says Dennis Sharp partner Yasmin Shariff, but Marks Barfield director Frank Anatole believes things are changing
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Technical
Offsetting must form part of our carbon-cutting diet
Phil Clark argues the merit of using carbon offset schemes in the quest to reduce global CO2 emissions
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OpinionErased from our memories
The government wants to forget the optimism of sixites and seventies social housing ever existed
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OpinionFight this loopy legislation
We need to resist the government’s misguided urge to dictate what sort of houses people want
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OpinionRobin Hood Gardens and the state of post-war listing
Listing post-war buildings has always been a point of contention, says Alan Powers, but in the case of Robin Hood Gardens there should be no argument
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OpinionA demolition job on the truth
The landlord’s consultation with tenants at Robin Hood Gardens has been seriously flawed
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NewsDemolition would be a “real tragedy”, says Rogers
Spurred into action by BD's campaign, Richard Rogers has written to culture secretary Andy Burnham calling Robin Hood Gardens one of the greatest modern buildings in Britain and protesting about its “appalling” neglect.
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OpinionTo the rescue of Robin Hood
Demolishing unpopular housing estates is simply a way of trying to obliterate the past rather than deal with it
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NewsEthics debate: Take an ethical stance, Libeskind tells his peers
Daniel Libeskind has urged architects to think carefully before working in China amid growing concern over the country’s ethical record.
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OpinionWe say: Great Arch is still a potent symbol
It's time to accept the battle for Euston Arch has been lost, argues Zoë Blackler