All Opinion articles – Page 28
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OpinionPlanners: Your country needs you (but no one will admit it)
In the UK we push planners to the margins. In the Netherlands their expertise is valued by government. Which do you think is working best, asks Gillian Darley
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OpinionIt's your museum and you can sleep in it if you want to
As Tate Modern prepares to open its extension and the V A plots its eastern outpost, Amanda Baillieu questions whether museums can still dazzle us
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OpinionIf we’re to build good places, architects and developers need to learn to trust each other
Get round a table and talk, Martyn Evans tells clients and designers. But don’t talk about buildings - talk about people
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OpinionWhen it comes to housing it's people who count, not units per hectare
There are endless ways of calculating density, each with a different physical and social outcome. Julia Park does the maths
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OpinionAs London builds tall, we urgently need to rethink the rules governing 'public space'
If they are putting us in flats, developers and politicians need to be realistic about our need to be ourselves outside
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OpinionSadiq Khan, you need to read these reports by Boris' design advisors
London’s new mayor has his work cut out on housing and planning, but he has plenty of excellent advice to draw on, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionArne Jacobsen designed chairs. Why won't architects let Heatherwick design buildings?
Architects have nothing to fear from designers straying on to their turf - and plenty to gain from collaboration, argues Mark Middleton
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OpinionPoliticians would do well to show more interest in urban design
Leon Krier proposes a new European capital built on genuinely sustainable principles. It would make the EU more lovable, be a model for other city builders - and help end our dependence on oil, he argues
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OpinionPostcards from continental railway stations
Gillian Darley hails a new generation of European stations and asks what we can learn
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OpinionMayoral targets - and mayoral rhetoric
Whoever succeeds Boris Johnson this week one thing is certain - they will struggle to build enough affordable housing for London, says BD editor Thomas Lane
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OpinionWe're pushing out talent by ignoring the business side of the profession till part III
BD’s student columnist takes issue with her unbalanced architectural education
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OpinionWhy the Panama Papers raise questions for architects too
Greater transparency is good news for the profession - but not necessarily in the way you might think, says Amanda Baillieu
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AnalysisBoris Johnson: Assessing his legacy
As the eight-year tenure of the mayor of London draws to a close, many Londoners have mixed feelings about the changes he has wrought on their city
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OpinionLondon's tall buildings bloopers
There’s lots of great new architecture in London but you wouldn’t know it to look at the skyline, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionBritain's urban literacy is a national scandal
Critic Jonathan Glancey laments the loss of city making skills
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OpinionThanks to the EU, architects can work in more places than ever before
Ben Flatman looks at the implications of Brexit for architects’ freedom of movement
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OpinionThe Green Belt is protected for a reason
Gillian Darley says a visit to Cairo or Delhi shows what can go wrong
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OpinionCollaboration and research are key to the survival of the profession
Architects must offer clients meaningful evidence - and the RIBA should be drawing it together, says Ben Derbyshire
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OpinionYou can't just build a railway and hope the Northern Powerhouse will succeed
Designing attractive places where people will want to build a life must be a critical part of the government’s plan, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionLondon won’t find the answer until it asks the right question
House prices in the capital have risen 45% under Boris Johnson. Infrastructure is at breaking point. We urgently need to decide what kind of city we want London to be, says Julia Park