All Opinion articles – Page 142
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It's time to make yourself useful
The localism bill presents a new challenge for professionals – and probably bureaucrats too.
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RTPI needs to face up to reality
It is pretty hilarious that the president of the RTPI still believes that planning permissions are decided on the issues alone (Debate May 20).
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OpinionShuttle cock
On Monday night, Building for Life chairman Wayne Hemingway fronted an item on Newsnight, addressing the question of whether eighties buildings deserve listing.
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OpinionTruly public space is at the heart of citizenship
Dare I ask what Crispin Kelly finds objectionable about “exercising [one’s] role as citizen”? (Debate June 3).
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OpinionShould local councils still be building housing?
Yes, says Campbell Robb, some councils are well placed to take direct action; while Richard Wellings says subsidised housing breeds welfare dependency
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OpinionBDP and Preston got it right first time
The bus station is the firm’s, and the town’s, best loved building. So why are they both building a mall in its place?
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Arb punishment is a mild rebuke
It would be interesting to know what the complainants think of Arb’s decisions in its conduct cases (“Arb issues £3,000 fine for Sussex architect” News June 3) as they always seem to result in no more than a mild rebuke and a paltry fine.
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OpinionProof of value of apprenticeship
English Heritage recently produced a list of all the listed buildings in the country, from which BD highlighted the 10 architects with the greatest number of buildings included (bdonline May 23).
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OpinionThe Chinese are coming
With Chinese firms beginning to crack London, is the balance of the industry about to shift?
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OpinionPollen Street Social: What did you say?
Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, architects for the conversion of Bow Street Magistrates Court into a boutique hotel, may find critics are harsher than they’re used to back home in Shanghai.
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New museums offer an object lesson
Our focus now seems to be on museums rather than the exhibits on show inside
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OpinionOff the hook: Wilton Music Hall
If anyone doubts that Wilton’s Music Hall is in real trouble after the Heritage Lottery Fund turned it down for a grant, Boots suggests giving them a call to hear the story from the horse’s mouth.
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Education needs a total rethink
After a three-year degree, part I graduates are pretty much useless to most practices as anything other than cad operators (“Cost of studying architecture ’tops £88,000’”, bdonline May 26).
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OpinionPotters Fields shows the dangers of privatisation
The privatisation of semi-judicial services, notably planning control, is problematic in several ways.
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Don't overlook Croydon's past
Owen Hatherley invites readers to consider more seriously places which many people simply scorn (Urban Trawl May 20).
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OpinionShould local councils reclaim ownership of the public realm?
Yes, says Anna Minton, the new report is a backwards step; while Crispin Kelly says shopping centres show the way forward.
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OpinionHail to the chiefs Reed and Obama
She may have less than three months of her presidency to run but there is no let up for RIBA’s Ruth Reed.
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Broadgate was Coventry's heart
My grandparents lived in Coventry and in the 1950s and 1960s and I used to visit them.
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Broadband must be beautiful too
It is encouraging to see one major infrastructure provider in the form of National Grid working with the RIBA and DECC to improve the design of the electricity pylon (“Minister stresses role of design in energy plans”, News May 27 ). Isn’t it time BT’s Openreach and other broadband providers ...