All Opinion articles – Page 151
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OpinionA purpose far beyond books
Libraries provide communities with a vital physical infrastructure, so closures sit ill with the notion of the Big Society.
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OpinionWise’s green credentials are cold comfort
Our editor may have chosen David Lea and Pat Borer’s Wise building at the Centre for Alternative Technology as his favourite of last year …
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OpinionClosing the libraries is just the start
Localism seems to require a near impossible suspension of disbelief
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OpinionSend for Rogers
Education secretary Michael Gove is quoted saying: “We won’t be getting Richard Rogers to design your school”
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OpinionPrince in context
The Prince of Wales’s reputation in some quarters as an opinionated supporter of classicist architecture certainly doesn’t reflect his whole view of people and places
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OpinionPrefabs need not be box-like
I read with interest your article “Architects start work on prefab school templates”.
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OpinionBerlin's walls
Happily Berlin’s alternative ways of doing things do not depend on the survival of Tacheles
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OpinionPop-ups: has innovation been replaced by exploitation?
Yes, says James R Payne, it’s a symptom of how young architects are treated today; but Andrew Waugh says this is recycling at its best
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OpinionGet the best from the 3D explosion
The building information model (bim) strategy of using a virtual 3D model to coordinate the design process and generate 2D drawings and schedules has obvious attractions
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OpinionGove cannot go it alone
The government announced last week that Building Schools for the Future is to be replaced by a programme within which all projects will be based on one of six standardised templates.
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OpinionInitiatives need solid foundations too
Stop-start policy-making can never make for good architecture
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OpinionPreset limits
Out of the costly BSF frying pan and into the now frugal but still centralised fire! (“’Flat-pack’ schools will make architects redundant” bdonline January 28)
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History lessons
Toby Young is right – to a degree – but the argument is getting polarised (News, January 28).
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Falling flat
As someone who has fought battles with his local authority over the quality of design for our local PFI-funded school building projects, the news about flat-pack schools is about as depressing as it gets (bdonline, January 28)
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OpinionShould standardisation be the future of school design?
Yes, says Andrew Geldard, now is our chance to make a virtue of necessity; but Sean Griffiths is contemplating a Jamie Oliver-style campaign against processed schools
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OpinionDaddy would not be proud
To borrow from 1066 and All That (which I’m sure Gove would like us all to do), Toby Young is repulsive but right