All Columnists articles – Page 33
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OpinionThe shining: a modern horror story
The new wave of energy-efficient lightbulbs is enough to bring out the axeman in anyone
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OpinionPrince is back for seconds
Sustainability is likely to be the target of Prince Charles’s RIBA speech next month, but architects can’t expect an easy ride
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OpinionWren's template for austerity
Tough times don’t necessarily mean inferior architecture. Just look at what Wren produced for the City of London on a shoestring
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OpinionDon’t just wait for good times to return
It will be the final misery of these times if all we emerge with is downsized businesses and nastier buildings
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OpinionWhatever happened to craft?
Architects should put away the computer and dig into the toolbox for an appreciation of materials and how buildings actually work
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OpinionArts face recession’s wrath
A funding crisis should not be allowed to derail projects from which we all have much to gain
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OpinionTime to rethink the year out
With work placements, architecture schools should be more flexible in how students occupy the year between parts I and II
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OpinionPitching for rational exuberance
As the boom turns to bust, what lessons can we learn from the past about blending radical architecture with civic-mindedness?
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OpinionSearching for some soul on the dole
Architects visiting a jobcentre for the first time might hanker for Gropius’s attempt to make signing on elegant
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OpinionDo you still want protection?
We hope our Arb survey will give an accurate picture of what the profession really feels
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OpinionValue the whole, not the parts
Nature England this week has broken with quango tradition and spoken sense: that the arbitrary division we make between the areas we conserve and those we exploit must end
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OpinionEasing the march of the Tesco towns
The supermarket behemoth won a competition ruling last week that will dictate the shape of our cities to come
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OpinionWhat makes a view special?
Legislation to protect much loved views of London needs overhauling if it’s to be really effective
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OpinionUnfashionable locations
As the bust finally hits Dubai, do Sanaa, designer of this year’s upcoming Serpentine pavilion, and Corbusier, the show of whose work is now at the Barbican in London after its Liverpool opening, point the way to a more humane and modest architecture?
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OpinionWhat's so rewarding about bonuses?
Target-based payments can in fact motivate against professionalism
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OpinionWhere there’s muck, there’s indignation
The response to Peter Jones’s opinions shows how we’re failing to deal with rubbish
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OpinionWhen legacy is dead on arrival
The lack of civic-mindedness during the decades of “greed is good” has delivered only zombie public spaces, devoid of any life
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OpinionAfter Foster's, no one is safe
If a practice that prided itself on the global spread of its projects has to slash its workforce, can anyone be immune to the recession?
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FeaturesJan’s refusal to be imprisoned
Architect Jan Kaplicky and actor Patrick McGoohan, who gave Portmeirion a starring role in The Prisoner, shared the same inability to handle the mediocre