All Opinion articles – Page 94
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OpinionIt’s green to think we can hit zero carbon
The housebuilding industry is just not ready for a 2016 deadline
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OpinionIs the influx of foreign architects harming India’s built heritage?
Essential modernisation, or senseless globalisation?
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OpinionSkateboarders are no sideshow
My son (Louis Tingle 1986-2004) spent the best part of his life at the Southbank skateboarders’ undercroft ( Debate May 17 ): perfecting his craft, making friends and participating in the most unique and diverse space in London.
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OpinionIs out-of-town out of time?
Retail habits are changing so fast that even the retailers are not sure what will happen next ( Speaking Out May 17 ).
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OpinionEverything in the Gardens is rosy
Gillian Darley writes an interesting piece ( Opinion May 17 ), but her fears for the decline of the Festival Gardens are unfounded.
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OpinionHampton Court controversy
The “carbuncle” speech, made when Charles Correa received his RIBA gold medal in 1984 ( Analysis May 17 ), was made at Hampton Court Palace (not the Mansion House) as the wonderful setting for the RIBA’s 150th anniversary.
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OpinionOld folks need to be coaxed
Your call to arms is so timely (“ Improving elderly care is an opportunity, not a chore ”, Leader May 17).
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OpinionLeak could be lowest point yet in sorry saga of RMJM
Is Jonathan French paying for telling his employers what they didn’t want to hear?
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OpinionWhat is the point of architecture schools?
Architectural education needs a proper shake-up which needs to begin by putting more money into teaching, argues Will Hunter
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OpinionWhy BD doesn't offer unpaid internships
If you can’t afford to pay your interns then you can’t afford to have them, says Anna Winston
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OpinionImproving elderly care is an opportunity, not a chore
Better-designed homes for the old would help ease housing pressures for all, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionLiverpool is wasting this wasteland
The Festival Gardens’ riverside promenade is a depressingly lifeless place to stroll, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionShould the skateboarder community have to move from the Southbank undercroft?
Campaigners have criticised plans to turn the Centre’s skate park into retail units as part of a £120m revamp
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OpinionKeep up the ribbing, RIBA
Hank Dittmar is wrong to suggest it is inappropriate for the RIBA to run campaigns ( Opinion May 3 ).
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OpinionPFI is the private fiasco initiative
I cannot believe the government is persevering with the PFI approach to the funding of public service construction — and only the large practices are going to get a look-in.
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OpinionClassicists were no craftsmen
Classical architecture of the Italian renaissance had already rejected many of the craft-reliant aspects of the architecture of the Middle Ages — Geoffrey Scott criticised the gothic revival for its demand for craftsmanship which had been lost due to the “simpler” construction required in classical architecture — so it is ...
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OpinionBig problems for small practices
There is a subtlety missing from Ruth Brennan’s quote from me in your Letters page last week.
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OpinionAn independent valuation of Arb
Can we know the identity of Mr W’s second architect (“Arb strikes off architect for trying to smear client”, News May 10 ), and are they now being investigated by the Arb to confirm the validity of their valuation?