All Opinion articles – Page 119
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OpinionHigh streets need local focus
The high street should be redefined as the place for local enterprise to blossom and flourish (Debate March 30).
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OpinionAirport solution is close at hand
After 50 years, Heathrow is losing its economically critical position for the UK, as Europe’s principal intercontinental transfer airport.
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OpinionWhich button should we be wearing?
The rush to make architectural masterpieces is costing Rotterdam dear
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OpinionWill the VAT changes endanger listed buildings?
Yes, says Kate Pugh, it will discourage owners from necessary work; but Sarah Gibbs claims the measure is a much-needed correction on the tax system
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OpinionWhen austerity overtakes architectural ambition
When large-scale architectural projects fail economically, how much is the design to blame?
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OpinionOverambition has blighted Battersea Power Station
If the London landmark is to avoid demolition it needs more gradual redevelopment
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OpinionMultiple design schemes could be the key for Battersea Power Station
Architects will find it difficult to create a successful single solution
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OpinionAre designs to spruce up temporary classrooms a waste of money?
Yes, says Robin Nicholson, pupils deserve permanent buildings; but Dominic Cullinan sees adaptation as the key to schools’ success
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OpinionWhy Welwyn still works
I share Gillian Darley’s scepticism over the curious relationship between the government and garden cities (Opinion April 13).
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OpinionDoes regulation stunt education?
I interpret Garth Hoskins’ aside (“Architectural education should be tougher” Life class March 30) as being about increasing quality in the profession via education and I would go further to include established practitioners in this.
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OpinionIs the Shard a tour de force?
The Shard is a landmark building and will be recognised as such and be a part of London long after we have all gone to the next world.
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OpinionBeware the desire to spruce
Your front page article “Architects to spruce up pre-fabs” (News April 13) brought back memories for my practice.
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OpinionStand up to the knights, Titanic woes and L'Elephant de la Bastille
Standing up to architects with knighthoods, a Titanic scandal and Napoleon’s abandoned bronze elephant
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OpinionRing road that helps maintain Belfast's ghettos
Hackett Hall McKnight’s Mac may be raising the city’s architecture standards, but it is inaccessible to many of its citizens
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OpinionThe Shard points the way for London’s splintered skyline
The next mayor needs to provide a convincing vision that connects the forthcoming rash of skyscrapers along the Thames
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OpinionGarden cities that will never bloom
The coalition’s adoption of the garden city ideal strays a long way from its origins
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OpinionWe must cultivate our garden cities
UK architects are building exemplary communities overseas, but at home we lack the political will to put them into practice
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OpinionAll the president’s men
David Adjaye on Obama’s top table, Trenton Oldfield’s watery urbanism and hacking the Shard