Briefing – Page 43
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AnalysisNew director Ichioka looks for firmer ground for the Architecture Foundation
After a turbulent year in which plans for its Zaha Hadid-designed HQ were scrapped, will a new director mean a different direction for the Architecture Foundation? Will Hurst reports
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News analysis: is the housing market collapsing around us?
The fall in house prices has prompted a dramatic downturn in commissions, with some architects facing redundancy. Will Henley looks at how practices are coping with the credit crunch, and what the long-term prospects may be
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AnalysisQuestioning the Oxford agenda
Heads of four architecture schools respond to to last week’s setting-out of the issues for next month’s Oxford Conference, and argue that sustainability is not the only game in town
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AnalysisArchitectural education: the 1958 Oxford Conference revisited
Architecture schools must meet the challenge of sustainability if they are to survive, delegates at July’s Oxford Conference will hear. This week, four leading figures — Susan Roaf, Christopher Alexander, Rab Bennetts and Steven Parissien — say why change is needed. Next week, the schools respond
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AnalysisWhy Gordon Brown and green don’t mix
The prime minister had high hopes for eco-towns, but Richard Rogers and others say the towns aren’t sustainable at all
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AnalysisCrack team rides in to save Olympic Village
Will the new line-up of heavy hitters brought in to run the 2012 Athletes’ Village help lift the project out of the doldrums? BD’s news desk reports
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AnalysisBD speaks to OMA partner Reinier de Graaf
Reinier de Graaf on the Delft University fire, his plans for the Commonwealth Institute and why Boris is good news for White City
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AnalysisLeon Krier talks sustainable architecture
The Prince of Wales’s architecture guru Leon Krier talks with Jules Lubbock about the environmental merits of traditional buildings
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AnalysisComing down to earth with a bump
After a spectacular opening, Rogers’ T5 descended into farce. But how much turbulence does it take to ground such a high-flying practice? asks Vikki Miller
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AnalysisNow that’s what Margaret Hodge calls architecture
The decision whether to list Robin Hood Gardens ultimately lies with the architecture minister, who took Liz Bury on a tour of buildings in her east London constituency
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AnalysisWill Jan Kaplicky’s Prague National Library make him a local hero?
Future Systems’ Jan Kaplicky talks to Liz Bury about the brouhaha over his winning library design for Prague
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Analysis‘It’s a great place to live, absolutely’
Local residents give their views of what it’s like to live in Robin Hood Gardens, one of the 20th century’s great housing estates. Depressing? Not at all, they tell Rory Olcayto
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AnalysisWho’s watching over Crossrail’s design?
The £16bn project to join east and west London by high-speed rail link is to go ahead, but doubts remain as to its architectural quality, reports Will Hurst
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Analysis2012 claims fail to make a splash
Architects have been promised that the Olympic boom will spread outside London as teams seek training bases. But will inadequate existing facilities mean they look outside the UK instead?Tom de Castella investigates
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AnalysisWho’s celebrating this year?
We look at the personalities who dominated our news pages in 2007 and decide who are the turkeys and who win our Christmas puddings
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AnalysisGateway to disaster?
London must decide the direction of the Thames Gateway soon, warns Michael Edwards, or risk a project doomed to failure
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AnalysisHas English Heritage lost its way?
As the public inquiry into the redevelopment of Smithfield market kicks off, is it time to review the adviser’s role, asks Heidi Ancell
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AnalysisWill Bute battle Bloxham for Cardross?
After Tom Bloxham’s Urban Splash expressed interest in developing Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s celebrated St Peter’s Seminary, a second would-be saviour, the Marquess of Bute, has thrown his hat into the ring
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AnalysisLondon’s Dutch capitulation
Is the fashion for getting Dutch firms to work on Olympic and Gateway projects down to superior skills or is it just a political fad?
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AnalysisWill market forces stifle bold design?
Contractors can pick and choose projects, citing costs, skills shortages and the booming market. But is this bad for architecture.