All Opinion articles – Page 289
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A bridge between two separate worlds
Monday: Urgent call from Ruth Kelly. How can we transform Britain’s council estates through social mobility and private equity? I suggest we do the following: Redeploy troops from Iraq to encourage democracy, distribute free methadone and bicycles, get someone Australian in glasses to design “kinetic housing”, float the benefits system ...
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Wrath of a two-headed beast
How odd to be admonished in BD for resigning from Architecture & Design Scotland by the Murray part of Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects (Letters February 16), while in your rival the Dunlop bit admonishes me for not having left sooner.
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OpinionTime for the barcodists to check out
The randomly spaced facade is the architectural cliche of the moment
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OpinionPicking your battles is an art
English Heritage is in crisis, and even Ruth Kelly appears to be toeing Unesco’s line rather than listening to her paid advisers
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Britain's second city: Birmingham fights back
Responding to Nick Johnson's blog posted on bdonline earlier this week, Glenn Howells argues that second city status belongs to Birmingham not Manchester
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OpinionBritain's second city: Manchester or Birmingham?
In his second blog entry, Nick Johnson, chair of Marketing Manchester, has no doubts which city deserves the title
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OpinionThe ODA's Olympic break for young architects
The ODA has responded to pressure from the architecture community, led by BD, and launched an urban design scheme for the Olympics aimed specifically at “emerging” practices. But what are up-and-coming firms saying about it? Interviews below by James Rose. To read Ellen Bennett's news story "Walkway design competition gives ...
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OpinionOn competitions
Nick Johnson blogs on judging the latest addition to New Islington, the true meaning of Biffin's Bridge and what judges are really looking for
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Zero Carbon Development
Suddenly it seems that sustainability is on everyone’s lips. It has rapidly become an overriding national priority and when Chancellor Gordon Brown committed himself to the target of making all new homes carbon neutral by 2016, he handed a massive challenge to the design and development industries (Tough New Rules ...
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Tell us what you think
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Tell us what you think
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Lost opportunity
I am bemused that a deputy-chairman of any nascent NGO should resign because he doesn’t like the shape of his own organisation.
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We want to know what you think
Have our reviewers got it right? Could you do better? We want to hear what you think. Add your comments to the reviews featured here by clicking on the link at the bottom of each story or send in your own review to bdonline@cmpi.biz.
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OpinionSave our greens
Landscape Architecture South East (LASE) welcomes the Greater London Authority inquiry into the loss of street trees in London (News February 2) and anticipates real outcomes from it.
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Good practice
Archaos would like to thank the 450 practices and architects who have joined our Good Practice Campaign.
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Find love
If you spent Valentines Day alone you need to join our Lonely Hearts Club. Architecture has one of the highest proportions of single people of all the professions so there’s no reason you can’t find the column to fit your pediment. Send us a few paragraphs about yourself and what ...
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