All Opinion articles – Page 278
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On the run
Norman Foster may prefer his marathons to be of the cross-country skiing sort these days, but chatting to Boots this week he recalled running in the first London Marathon in 1981.
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Peak practice
How quickly people forget! When I got my first job 35 years ago with Leonard Manasseh, a superb aerial perspective of his proposal for Snowdon’s summit (News May 4) sat in his foyer in Rathbone Street.
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OpinionLeft for Wright
Among the former EH staff who contacted BD after last week’s story on the quango’s diminishing pool of architects, one who has definitely landed on his feet is former conservation director John Fidler, who moved last year to Los Angeles, where his wife is associate director of the Getty Conservation ...
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It’s a mad world
Your headline (News May 4) regarding housing competitions could equally apply to the whole competition process. This is, generally, fairness gone bonkers.
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OpinionA new recipe for social housing
Tim Williams, chair of the Housing Corporation’s commission into social housing at the Thames Gateway, tells BD how he hopes his report can bring about a revolution in the quality of UK housing design
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OpinionQuality is the missing ingredient in the housing mix
David Levitt says the housing sector’s tick-boxing culture needs to change before architects can make a difference
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Hard times
It seems that Dickensian employment practices are alive and well in architects’ offices (Practice May 4).
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Good grief
The Royal College of Art’s Don’t Panic exhibition, which opens at the Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery on June 1, sounds like a barrel of laughs.
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Get a grip, RIBA
You hit the nail fairly and squarely on the head (Leader May 11) in asserting that the RIBA has more pressing matters to beat itself up about than registering the political affiliations of council and board members.
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OpinionHemp offers even more
The article on hemp insulation by Roderick Bunn (Solutions May 11) quoted a U-value of 0.9W/m2K from Buro Happold for 100mm.
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OpinionHigh-quality design must be at the heart of social housing if it is to be truly successful
Our homes affect every aspect of our lives: our health, our wealth, our happiness.
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OpinionSocial housing requires elevated standards of design
Excellent design is more critical to social housing than most other building types. Almost 50% of social tenants are not in formal employment, and some 40% of lettings each year go to households with some sort of support need.
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OpinionCoal not doled
The May issue of BD Magazine is packed with interest and really well presented, but Retrospect is wildly adrift concerning the “the health of toiling miners” in 1948.
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OpinionA Century of housing
Much of the failure of multistorey housing is blamed on architects as well as the technical systems that allowed these new estates to be built cheaply and fast.
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Strife of Bryan
Boots reported last month that 1970s style icon Bryan Ferry had voiced admiration for the work of architect to the Nazis, Albert Speer.
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OpinionSmall firms are the best innovators
The bread and butter work of up-and-coming architects is now ripe for scaling up, says young practice AOC