All Columnists articles – Page 25
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OpinionWe need to talk about housing
Wherever there are no jobs and a barren stretch of sodden land to be flogged off cheaply, horrid homes sprout like random weeds.
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OpinionTime to build on the Cold War legacy
Scrapping the nuclear budget would enable us to build our way out of recession
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OpinionIt's not gardens that are the problem
The end of so-called ‘garden grabbing’ in fact marks an abandonment of the the policies set out by the Urban Task Force.
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OpinionHow the other half builds
The gap between low-cost housing and luxury developments grows ever wider.
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Where now for Battersea Power Station?
Years ago I had the pleasure of spending an evening with Rafael Vinoly. It began with a certain amount of drama as he insisted on driving down a one way street on the way to the restaurant.
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Why do architects choose names that require a BBC pronunciation manual?
If Buschow Henley wasn’t bad enough, the practice has now rebranded and come up with Henley Halebrown Rorrison guaranteed to be as troublesome to BBC newsreaders as al-Qa’eda and J K Rowling.
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Another day, another reason to lay into Michael Gove
Gove’s gaffes aren’t quite up there with Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive. On the other hand it takes quite a lot to stir RIBA and by yesterday it was sufficiently wound up by the education secretary’s latest comment to put out a press release.
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Going Dutch offers food for thought
Should the UK sacrifice its land to the intensive farming methods of the Netherlands?
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Architecture’s final frontier
The Pantheon and the International Space Station share the ability of great buildings to inspire wonder
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OpinionTV’s game-show architecture
Would there be TV freak shows if buildings worked with the landscape and were built at a slower pace?
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OpinionPiano hits a bum note
Central St Giles exemplifies how, in London, grossly over-scaled buildings can be nodded through if a ’good designer’ is attached
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OpinionSee Venice Little-Britain style
Shades of Vicky Pollard dominate the Venice Architecture Biennale
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OpinionThings look set to get grim up north
This year’s RSA exhibition points to a crisis of confidence among Scottish architects
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OpinionSurrey Quays, the real Tory heartland
The Conservative non-planners of the eighties have never been held to account for their legacy
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OpinionA home under St Paul’s dome?
The most unlikely conversions could make magnificent places to live.
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Building on the bureaucratic rubble
Coalition government could be the best news the construction industry’s had in years
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OpinionOur heritage is in your hands
The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail needs your help to survive
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OpinionGove gets off to a bad start
The new education secretary’s ill-informed remarks suggests he has little understanding of architecture
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OpinionPatrolling the windowbox war zone
Whatever the scale, it’s not always easy to reach consensus in battles over our environment
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In need of new leadership
The next RIBA president must be someone willing to fight architects’ corner