All Opinion articles – Page 148
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Opinion
Get behind your local centre
As a practising architect based in the North-east region and a board member of Northern Architecture, the architecture centre for the North-east, I wish to urge practices across the country to support their local architecture centres, which are facing challenges with the demise of their Cabe funding (News March 18).
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OpinionGold’s not all that glitters in the Gulf
Middle Eastern cities have more in common with UK metropolises than first meets the eye
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OpinionIs the RIBA’s action on low pay tough enough?
Insisting students are paid minimum wage is an important marker of change says RIBA president Ruth Reed; while Keith Tomlinson says the institute should have gone further
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OpinionIt was acceptable in the 80s
Osborne’s new enterprise zones reflect the misplaced belief that planning is the enemy of development
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OpinionLandlords like Gaddafi won’t drop rents
New squatting laws and benefit cuts aren’t going to make the private rental sector effective
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Surface tensions
Make’s 5 Broadgate scheme for Swiss bank UBS (News March 18) shows how hard it is to achieve Ken Shuttleworth’s insistence on no more than 30-40% glazing, which is what we should all be trying to achieve.
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Rural practices
lan Deacon’s recommendation to students to read The Honeywood File (and follow it up, presumably, with The Honeywood Settlement) (Letters March 18) reminded me of another pair of books I must transfer from bookshelf to travel bag.
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Time to mix it up
Converting commercial rights to residential rights will not produce successful regeneration, only another residential district demanding inefficient and duplicated services and where transport and energy mistakes of the past are repeated (“Turn redundant high streets into housing says think-tank” bdonline, March 21).
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OpinionResidents are living proof
While I agreed with much of your leader “Local identity is the least of it” (March 11), it unfortunately concluded with the usual inaccurate criticisms levelled at housebuilders.
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Opinion
Under invested?
So, as Sir Fred may have advised, RMJM has packed all its debt (ie current financial situation) into the issue of new shares which it will then sell to its own staff (bdonline March 16).
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OpinionShould we turn run-down high streets into housing?
Yes, says Alex Morton, shopping and living patterns have changed; while Elizabeth Cox thinks they need to remain the hub of the community
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Opinion
Never forget
How pleasing were the days when the AA chairman, like Hannibal, could mount elephants (Archive, March 18). Much of the credit goes to the charismatic and riotously funny Phil Hudson, then of the AA Student Union.
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OpinionWho can afford localism?
Neighbourhood plans will only be as local as the people that pay for them
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OpinionWhat is the true value of education?
It’s time we realised that architecture degrees aren’t simply career launch pads
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Unwise words
It was entertaining to find two examples of unconscious irony on one page (Opinion March 11).
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School of thought
Taking account of all the current problems in practice and education, is there a practical alternative to educating in universities?
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OpinionImprobable princely union
Norman Foster and Prince Andrew, Quinlan Terry and Prince Charles – every successful architect surely needs a prince by their side.
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Golden oldie
In response to “Are Schools of Architecture letting Students down?” (Debate March 11), I regularly recommend HB Creswell’s novel The Honeywood File to students.
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Market forces
Peter Stephens’ anguish and Keir Alexander’s depressing conclusion that architecture will be left for those who can afford it if students are lured into the City (Letters March 11) reawaken the age-old problem.