All Columnists articles – Page 19
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OpinionA developers’ plague on all our houses
This clumsy bid to streamline planning will bring a rash of crass, profitable ghettos
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OpinionPolicy is only half the story
The government ignores the need for investment and training in its eagerness to strip the red tape from the planning system
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OpinionNever have so many owed so much...
Discussions about planning policy reform risk getting bogged down in emotive rhetoric
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OpinionThe real cost of free schools
The government has just announced that the first 24 free schools are set to open in a couple of weeks, having involved a capital expenditure of somewhere between £110 and £130 million.
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OpinionWhen Delhi's Kingdom of Dreams is shut
India’s capital shows us the process of becoming a metropolis — and it isn’t pretty
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OpinionBuilding an escape from the ghetto
The results of the very rich living next to the very poor can be seen in Hackney and Clapham
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OpinionEvery little independent victory helps
Modern or traditional – if a design is at odds with the local ethos it makes no difference
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OpinionTime is often the harshest critic
Completion dates may be the only things separating Stirlings from Carbuncles
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OpinionArchitecture is dissolving into air
The tension between the permanent and the ephemeral is now central to all architecture
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OpinionThis Stirling shortlist favours the safe and generic
The usual suspects are once again honoured at the expense of truly stirring architecture.
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OpinionBeware starchitects bearing gifts
Much-vaunted showpiece schemes can often become a front for sneaking bad buildings in under the radar
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OpinionGenius can be a team effort
As the row over 30 St Mary Axe shows, building authorship is usually the result of a shared culture
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OpinionCreed has lit up the Scotsman Steps
An artistic intervention has succeeded in transforming a less than pleasant journey
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OpinionNY’s High Line can raise our aims too
Britain could create walkways like the High Line – out of old infrastructure or within new buildings
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Pylons embody our electric dreams
Infrastructure is part of our past, present and future, whether we like it or not — so let’s make the best of it
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Too much novelty leaves us nowhere
The character of Vienna’s streets, proves that original design doesn’t always have a place
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OpinionBDP and Preston got it right first time
The bus station is the firm’s, and the town’s, best loved building. So why are they both building a mall in its place?
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New museums offer an object lesson
Our focus now seems to be on museums rather than the exhibits on show inside
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OpinionWhat is the architecture of localism?
Previous eras of political reform left their mark. So what will be the legacy of the Big Society?
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OpinionThe price of Scottish independence
Without the help of local councils, communal works are easier said than done