All Opinion articles – Page 110
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OpinionA good day for post-war buildings
With much post-war architecture under threat, it is cheering to see the Commonwealth Institute beginning a new life
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OpinionOlympic stadium deserves better than West Ham
Populous’s stadium is now a much-loved symbol of sporting success and it deserves to have a genuinely public use
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OpinionHeritage status won’t guarantee quality
While the Giant’s Causeway visitor centre may be a success, this year’s Carbuncle Cup winner proves that history is not always on your side
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OpinionWill architects benefit from relaxed planning rules?
Yes, says Manuel Nogueira, it’s a positive step even though it relies on proper implementation; while Ian Hogarth is tired of government ‘simplifications’ making things worse
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OpinionLondon Met crisis is shortsighted
The London Metropolitan visa crisis has all the hallmarks of a classic Home Office knee-jerk reaction — remember that UK Border Agency is an agency of the Home Office (News September 7).
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OpinionHamburg concert hall a disaster
The scheme for the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie is breathtaking in its bombastic and overweighted ugliness (News September 7) — is this what Herzog & de Meuron has come to?
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OpinionCameron's lost the planning plot
The proposals to change the planning system are absurd and ludicrous — just like the NPPF. (“Cameron announces further shake-up of planning” bdonline September 6).
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OpinionVaizey makes a welcome return
The arts minister’s new responsibilities come just as the profession needs a sympathetic ear
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OpinionWho at the AA will take responsibility?
The AA Council remains remarkably silent about how the school came to be £5.5 million out of pocket
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OpinionCommunity is key to new planning policy
New neighbourhood planning provisions are vital tools to get housebuilding moving again
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OpinionIs the Venice Biennale self-indulgent?
Yes, says Hani Rashid, it offers distilled data instead of powerful solutions; while Ann Marie Aguilar thinks it’s no indulgence for architects to talk to each other
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OpinionSchools need to be reformed
Perhaps Tom Jefferies, Manchester’s head of school, should spend some time out here with practices and understand the economic realities of practice before suggesting that salaries should increase to recompense students for the astronomical debt levels they incur while studying at his institution (News August 24).
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OpinionEnding quotas is the road to ruin
In your report on the call to scrap affordable housing quotas (bdonline August 23) Grant Shapps asks: “Why is it in this country we don’t build homes specifically for rent, unlike almost everywhere else in the world?… We have buy-to-let but not build-to-let.”
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OpinionPrix has a point about biennale
Wolf Prix makes a decent argument (News August 31). Although the topics he raises — such as US housing collapse — are overtly political and of the day, they’re of concern to everyone and not architecture particularly.
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OpinionHousebuilding is more important than Heathrow
The chancellor’s focus on planning is a distraction from the real ways the government can persuade developers to build
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OpinionArchitecture biennale is a very British affair
Despite their dominance at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, the British didn’t have enough original things to say
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OpinionBiennale gossip: Parmesan nights
Less than favourable write-ups didn’t dampen the party mood at the British Pavilion
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OpinionBiennale gossip: Cultural revolution
Floating cinema guests got more than they bargained for