All Opinion articles – Page 335
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Ian Martin
Culture, as Suzi Towel constantly reminds us, never sleeps — ‘or if it does, it’s only in little naps’
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Im only here for a peer
The pashmina-enfolded lovely ahead of me drifts into Lord Hesketh’s vegetable patch and stops dead in her tracks
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Great inspiration
I was very moved by Ellis Woodman’s piece on Colin St John Wilson (News Analysis April 29).
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Election on track
With one week to go, formal entries for the RIBA part-council elections were certainly looking thin (News May 13).
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OpinionSchool drive
The battle for more women in architecture begins in schools such as Putney High School for Girls.
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Make a difference
I was fascinated to read that Make hopes to become the first “carbon-neutral” practice (News May 6).
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Just the job to improve office design
For many, the office is the setting for a good chunk of life. The place where we spend much of our time, it’s the often unglamorous backdrop to our creative successes and frustrations, our friendships, relationships and rivalries.
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School daze
When I hear mention of the Smithsons’ Hunstanton School (Letters, May 6), I do not think of ground-breaking architecture.
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The wrong culprit
It is hardly fair to accuse architects of a widespread ignorance of flood issues (Solutions May 6).
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Solving the housing crisis
Your issue of May 13 raises a variety of complex “solutions” to the housing crisis.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Use the forceYou would think a seminar on the future of terrace housing would be the one place where you could escape the hype surrounding this week’s release of the new Star Wars film. You thought wrong. Paul Lees of Adactus Housing Group tried to make his talk more entertaining ...
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Hopes pinned on the design ber-champ
Tessa Jowell, re-appointed as culture secretary in the new Cabinet, is, we are told, bidding to become a new “über-champion” for good design across government departments.
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Scottish traditions
I was encouraged by Mary Wrenn’s comment (Talkbox, May 6) regarding the need to make the traditions of Scottish architecture appeal to younger members of the profession.
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Ian Martin
What does the modern city need? Grim, free-range cyclists elevated to the status of an urban aristocracy
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Lammy springs hope, but you hold the key
Steadily and surely, the Labour Party is building a core of ministers switched on to the importance of the city and the built environment.
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OpinionMastering his universe
Given that the Pritzker Prize has historically been given to recognise a career of exceptional design, but with no particular emphasis on sustainability, the attendance of some 410 people at 2002 winner Glenn Murcutt’s lecture on May 3 at the RIBA was perhaps the most unequivocal endorsement of the Australian ...
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Ugly future
Sarah Wigglesworth’s Classroom of the Future may be packed full of interesting ideas, but it is unremittingly ugly, and misses a huge opportunity to teach children about architecture.
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We bring everything upon ourselves
Just as Mind (the National Association for Mental Health) is set to launch its Let off Steam Week, the Sunday Times announces “Get stressed, stay young – the new health advice”.