All Columnists articles – Page 35
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Opinion
Prickly problems at Shanghai
Finding some meaningful content for the British pavilion at the 2010 expo brings back memories of the Millennium Dome
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Features
Mrs Beckett: style icon or menace?
Margaret Beckett is back in government, this time as housing minister, but will her love of caravaning lead to more flexible attitudes on how to address the UK’s housing needs?
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Opinion
The changing face of banking – literally
The banks’ move from real to virtual money is reflected in what physical presence they have left
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Opinion
A bright side to dark times
Rather than give in to the economic gloom, architects can shape up for the future
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Opinion
What now – the bunker or the bike?
Never mind weeping and wailing — how are you going to get through the meltdown?
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Opinion
Towers as old as building itself
Towers have been around for thousands of years. Which means we can certainly critique the current batch
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Opinion
Tough times need ingenuity
The housing and architecture ministers are taking the reins at a testing moment
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Opinion
A green New Deal can tackle depression
Looming financial disaster might have unexpected social and environmental benefits
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Opinion
Stirling masks the real issues
The Stirling Prize is great... but the man in the street wants quality public buildings, and architects must take responsibility
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Opinion
Join the transition from fear to hope
As peak oil and climate change threaten our way of life, transition towns look to the future
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Features
Will recession bring revolution?
The changing economic climate could lead to greater political engagement among British architects
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Opinion
Classic designs put politics in a spin
What hidden messages lie in the architecture of the stages for the US presidential contest?
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Features
Concerning Callcutt’s bare cheek
John Callcutt’s unwarranted attack on the profession at Venice highlights how quiescent architects have become
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Opinion
Arb digs itself a deeper hole
Arb’s financial indulgence and bid to dump elections to its board only give more credence to its detractors
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Opinion
Prepare to fight your corner
As recession looms, it is up to architects to ensure that planning consultants don’t take away more of their work
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Opinion
We need a starting point to get better
Cabe sets a standard for good school design, and one response from the architectural community — there is no such thing, of course, but it will do as a shorthand — is that the procurement process has to be sorted out before a quality standard can be adopted.
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Features
Lord of the architectural laugh
In the wake of a Venice biennale that provoked laughs — and not in good way — comes a London show celebrating Osbert Lancaster, our most gifted architectural humourist
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Features
Is it possible to be green in a downturn?
Phil Clark on why sustainable solutions will become more valuable in a straitened economic environment
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Opinion
The broken heart of east Greenwich
What used to be Greenwich District Hospital is now a vast, overgrown wasteland
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Opinion
The Venice Biennale has become reflection of the state architecture is in
It may be unfair to compare the most important and expensive scientific experiment the world has ever known with a two-month-long architecture extravaganza, but the real cultural event of this week was not the opening of the Venice Biennale but the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider.