All Opinion articles – Page 75
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OpinionWe need to build homes the Netflix generation actually want
Amanda Baillieu welcomes Venice’s focus on the housing of the future
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OpinionWhy you need to go to an elite university to win the Stirling Prize
Where architects study is a depressingly good predictor of whether they’ll succeed, argues Paul McGrath
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OpinionYou might as well knock down the London Eye as demolish Hyde Park Barracks
Basil Spence should be celebrated for his efforts to give people access to ‘light, space, greenery’, says James Dunnett
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OpinionWhy Hyde Park Barracks deserves to be demolished
The campaign to save Basil Spence’s lowering landmark ignores the building’s utter failure to engage with its urban context, argues Ike Ijeh
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OpinionLos Angeles looks to Europe for help with its reinvention
Los Angeles is undergoing its biggest construction boom since the 1980s but regeneration plans are having to battle against suburban spread, economic and racial segregation and a reluctance among locals to leave their cars. Ike Ijeh takes a look
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OpinionBritain must tie planning consent to architects not sites if we are to halt insane land speculation
As soon as a site is sold on with consent, quality is compromised. We need to create a financial incentive to encourage developers to build their schemes, argues Anthony Thistleton-Smith
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OpinionWill someone please sort out this mess
The Housing Standards Review has spawned a litany of inconsistencies. Julia Park knocks some heads together
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OpinionWhen will Stirling laureates be allowed to quote from Wren?
If pastiche is so bad, why is it OK to be influenced by Breuer or the Smithsons, asks Hank Dittmar
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OpinionBurntwood School Stirling Prize win an underwhelming choice
This year’s Stirling Prize proved an unusual choice, but could it be a political one too, asks Ike Ijeh
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OpinionThe Housing Bill simply doesn’t add up
The new laws will only help people who can already afford to help themselves and does nothing to address the real problems, argues Julia Park
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OpinionWhen collaboration works
Mutual respect, like that between Kim Wilkie and Niall McLaughlin at the Natural History Museum, is key for partnerships to flourish, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionIf the Stirling Prize was about sustainability, who would win?
Ahead of next week’s ceremony, Simon Sturgis takes a critical look at the carbon performance of the six finalists
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OpinionProtesters are wrong to target Neo Bankside and hipsters eating cereal
We should be less worried about gentrification than about the complete failure to provide for communities like Barking Riverside, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionIS's attack on humanity's shared origins exposes the weakness of its ideology
Blowing up Palmyra is about power and money not cultural cleansing, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionIs brutalism the new Victoriana?
Do National Trust tours of brutalist icons mark a yearning for the return of 1960s and 70s socialist utopias or is the brutalist revival simply down to fashion?
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OpinionYou’ve got to hand it to post-modernism
It took capitalism and consumer nostalgia to rescue our brutal utopias, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionArchitects must be allowed to finish what they start
It’s time to end the damaging separation between concept design and delivery architect which was highlighted by the RIBA Client and Architect report, argues Roddy Langmuir
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OpinionArchitecture and freedom – a contested connection
With architectural production becoming ever more beholden to the needs of capital and the building industry, the Royal Academy’s Owen Hopkins introduces a season of events that explores what freedom might mean for architects – and architecture – now and in the future
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OpinionFraying at the edge
Barking Riverside? This isolated settlement is neither, finds Gillian Darley
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OpinionHodder: Industry values architects for our creativity, passion and technical ability
There is much for the profession to be optimistic about, says Stephen Hodder as he steps down as president of the RIBA