All Opinion articles – Page 31
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OpinionWe face a race against time to save our exceptional post-modern heritage
Po-mo is threatened by a building boom and its own fleeting unpopularity. But it’s not the first style to face this peril and we need to stop reinventing the wheel, writes Adam Nathaniel Furman
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OpinionHow small practices can adopt BIM without hiring an expensive BIM manager
The author of a new BIM handbook for smaller architects has some practical advice for those hesitating to take the plunge
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OpinionClimate change will force us to think much bigger than floating houses
It’s good news that urbanism will be on the agenda at next month’s climate talks, but they’re unlikely to do more than scratch the surface of a topic that will engage architects and planners for decades to come, writes Hank Dittmar
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OpinionElisabeth Scott's passport out of the shadows
Once the most famous ‘girl architect’ in the country, Elisabeth Scott spent the rest of her career in relative obscurity. Her appearance as one of only two women in the new passport is welcomed by Gillian Darley
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OpinionThe future of architectural education – can it work in practice?
Giving students more practical experience is a good thing - but it could place an unbearable burden on small firms, warns Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionWe need to build homes the Netflix generation actually want
Amanda Baillieu welcomes Venice’s focus on the housing of the future
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OpinionWhy you need to go to an elite university to win the Stirling Prize
Where architects study is a depressingly good predictor of whether they’ll succeed, argues Paul McGrath
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OpinionYou might as well knock down the London Eye as demolish Hyde Park Barracks
Basil Spence should be celebrated for his efforts to give people access to ‘light, space, greenery’, says James Dunnett
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OpinionWhy Hyde Park Barracks deserves to be demolished
The campaign to save Basil Spence’s lowering landmark ignores the building’s utter failure to engage with its urban context, argues Ike Ijeh
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OpinionBritain must tie planning consent to architects not sites if we are to halt insane land speculation
As soon as a site is sold on with consent, quality is compromised. We need to create a financial incentive to encourage developers to build their schemes, argues Anthony Thistleton-Smith
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OpinionWill someone please sort out this mess
The Housing Standards Review has spawned a litany of inconsistencies. Julia Park knocks some heads together
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OpinionWhen will Stirling laureates be allowed to quote from Wren?
If pastiche is so bad, why is it OK to be influenced by Breuer or the Smithsons, asks Hank Dittmar
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OpinionBurntwood School Stirling Prize win an underwhelming choice
This year’s Stirling Prize proved an unusual choice, but could it be a political one too, asks Ike Ijeh
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OpinionThe Housing Bill simply doesn’t add up
The new laws will only help people who can already afford to help themselves and does nothing to address the real problems, argues Julia Park
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OpinionWhen collaboration works
Mutual respect, like that between Kim Wilkie and Niall McLaughlin at the Natural History Museum, is key for partnerships to flourish, says Gillian Darley
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OpinionProtesters are wrong to target Neo Bankside and hipsters eating cereal
We should be less worried about gentrification than about the complete failure to provide for communities like Barking Riverside, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionIS's attack on humanity's shared origins exposes the weakness of its ideology
Blowing up Palmyra is about power and money not cultural cleansing, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionYou’ve got to hand it to post-modernism
It took capitalism and consumer nostalgia to rescue our brutal utopias, says Hank Dittmar
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OpinionArchitects must be allowed to finish what they start
It’s time to end the damaging separation between concept design and delivery architect which was highlighted by the RIBA Client and Architect report, argues Roddy Langmuir
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OpinionArchitecture and freedom – a contested connection
With architectural production becoming ever more beholden to the needs of capital and the building industry, the Royal Academy’s Owen Hopkins introduces a season of events that explores what freedom might mean for architects – and architecture – now and in the future