All Columnists articles – Page 8
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Opinion
What’s blocking our views is the planning system
The only ones to benefit from the wrangling over Elizabeth House are the lawyers, says Amanda Baillieu
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Silvertown Quays is out on its own
Even a radical development model needs to connect with the city, says Ellis Woodman
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Emptiness brings its own inspiration
Two very different buildings in northern France reveal the power of a blank canvas, says Gillian Darley
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Awards need to be about more than point-scoring
The RIBA should stick to its brief — recognising excellence, says Amanda Baillieu
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Farrell must help students out of their ivory towers
High-quality design needs an education system that engages with the real world, says Amanda Baillieu
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Lessons from Berlin’s mysterious east
We should learn about austerity and urbanity from the city’s Nikolaiviertel area, says Owen Hatherley
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Competitions should prize clarity
Entrants are right to be angry over the RIBA’s McCarthy Stone contest, says Ellis Woodman
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Westminster needs a grade I expert
Excluding conservation specialists from this massive renovation job is absurd, sys Amanda Baillieu
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We need real homes, not ivory towers
All over the world, we are building identikit residential towers that are part-time occupied, non-adaptable and a blight on each nation’s built heritage
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Venice Biennale needs more than wow factor
Koolhaas’s intellectual ambition could stave off extinction, writes Ellis Woodman
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It’s green to think we can hit zero carbon
The housebuilding industry is just not ready for a 2016 deadline
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Leak could be lowest point yet in sorry saga of RMJM
Is Jonathan French paying for telling his employers what they didn’t want to hear?
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Why BD doesn't offer unpaid internships
If you can’t afford to pay your interns then you can’t afford to have them, says Anna Winston
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Improving elderly care is an opportunity, not a chore
Better-designed homes for the old would help ease housing pressures for all, says Amanda Baillieu
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Liverpool is wasting this wasteland
The Festival Gardens’ riverside promenade is a depressingly lifeless place to stroll, says Gillian Darley
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Arts centres must adapt to survive
Funding cuts will see more buildings follow the fate of The Public, says Ellis Woodman
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We have the technology…
The burgeoning TMT sector is changing the face of London’s offices, says Amanda Baillieu
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Flats don’t always need to be flattened
The refurbishment of Paris’s Tour Bois-le-Prêtre shows us how it could be done, says Owen Hatherley
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Our future heritage battles will be fought on Twitter
Battle over the Marquis of Lansdowne pub shows changes brought by social media, says Ellis Woodman
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Farrell won’t set the Thames on fire
The latest plan for Convoys Wharf fails to address the development’s basic flaws, says Ellis Woodman