All Opinion articles – Page 279
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OpinionA tip, Mr Armitt: time is running out
At last the ODA has a chairman, an authoritative one at that. Now can we get on with delivery?
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OpinionMore than just an architect
As we grapple with today’s demands, the breadth of interests that made Sandy Wilson are all the more valuable
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OpinionSocial housing’s ambivalent legacy
The canon of supposedly great social housing includes many schemes that people put forward as their most hated buildings
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Agora exists
Gareth Gwynne suggests an “agora” to showcase and debate the major architectural/built environment projects proposed for London (Letters April 27). Has he been to New London Architecture in the Building Centre?
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OpinionWill Foster’s deal with 3i be good for the practice?
John McAslan says the deal can only be beneficial, while former partner Barry Cook wonders if it can’t help but compromise design excellence
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OpinionViews: The Williams Report is only the beginning
Design for Homes chief executive David Birkbeck says that government of whatever hue has no choice but to start a massive housebuilding programme - both at Thames Gateway and across the country. It could even be a vote winner
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OpinionBlog: How sustainability is merging skills
Architects and engineers must collaborate from the outset of a project, was the message from Mobilising the Environmentalists
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The Untouchable
Having been tough on Arb, PFI and architecture minister David Lammy, self-confessed street-fighter and RIBA president Jack Pringle is now getting tough on possible conflicts of interest within the institute itself.
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Switch it on
“They are out and they are proud, and their success is key to British life. Among them are actors, authors and, yes, even business people too.”
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OpinionUse your sense
Having spent 31 years visiting Aalto’s buildings in Finland and the US, I was delighted to attend the Alvar Aalto exhibition and study day last week at the Barbican. Sadly, both were disappointing.
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Minority vote
If the rewards and working conditions of the architectural profession were to improve, perhaps more women and those from ethnic minorities would join.
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Sound loaded
News reached Boots this week that Latin pop crumpet Ricky Martin will soon be Livin’ La Vida Loca in new digs.
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Smoke and ire
As our office has long had an absolute no-smoking policy, I had thought that the smoking ban being brought into law in England on July 1 would not affect us.
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Im your man
Still with newspaper lists, it seems that Norman Foster is flavour of the month at Rupert Murdoch’s News International.
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OpinionHawkish times displace the US eagle
Saarinen’s US Embassy is a symbol of a more open, and now outdated, America
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Square despair
I would like to add to the debate on public spaces (Letters May 4). I walk through Gillett Square in Dalston nearly every day.
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OpinionThe glorious dawn of our Five Year Plan
I’m British not Stalinist, writes Chancellor of the Exchequer Gurnon Frown
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OpinionIn danger of losing the plot
Now is not the time for English Heritage to run down its level of architectural expertise
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OpinionThoughts are key to contests
It is entirely unnecessary for architects to be asked to produce extensive design as part of a competition process.