All Opinion articles – Page 316
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Invest in people and everyone benefits
Most professions rely on a single resource: staff or human resources - although I prefer to use the word people. That applies as much to architects as any others. We do not run businesses that are capital-intensive so no need for big buildings, plant and raw materials. What we need ...
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OpinionConcrete Boots
He may share his name with a musical instrument but it's his singing voice Renzo Piano intends to show off in London this summer, Boots was amused to hear.
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I'm off, but don't drop the artistry
I had decided that in my final leader before stepping down as BD editor I would ditch my usual attempt to make sense of the week's news and instead strike out into new ground.
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Onward and upward
I am one of the judges in the Fabulous International Skyscraper Design Competition 2006.
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Soapbox: Something's got to give over height
Here are three questions one could ask about a new building: Does it provide useful accommodation? Is it well-proportioned and pleasing to the eye? How tall is it?
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Concrete Boots
Boots loves poems, which is why our hearts skipped a beat when we received a poem from reader Paul Shearsmith who is in a band: A Lad from Tad and the Train Crash Skaters.
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Talk about urbanism, with a biscuit
In Selfridges this week a Chinese artist has been overseeing an unusual city building programme.
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Neighbour from hell
Why is the back page so coveted? Because it is the most fertile page in the whole magazine for taking the piss
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The rising tide of impossible dreams
You can see what the attraction was for Margate's civic leaders. Here was a town with very little to shout about architecturally while all around the world the economic fortunes of towns and cities appeared to be transformed by the introduction of one architectural icon or another.
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Concrete Boots
Scouting through old issues of BD this week, Boots stumbled upon a fascinating piece written by none other than Norman Foster in 1974.
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Soapbox: Making sure Arb is not ‘judge and jury'
The National Consumer Council has raised concerns and criticism about the RIBA's proposals to reform the Arb. It is worried we are failing to sufficiently take into account protection of the consumer in our plans.
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Halt this harmful demolition derby
The government's policy of housing market renewal is going wrong.
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Middle class and proud
Marketing has always been a problem for architects. This is mainly due to a slight misunderstanding between you - a genius - and the client, who at best is a well-meaning amateur.