All Opinion articles – Page 32
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OpinionHonest House – the real reality property show
If programmes like Ugly House and Grand Designs had any basis in reality the results would be rather different, suggests Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionJob-hunting for part IIs
Eleanor Jolliffe on the terror of the architectural job hunt, the fevered world of CVs, portfolios and secret knowledge
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OpinionLondon needs a walker's charter
The first two London mayors championed buses and bikes. The next one should put pedestrians first, argues Hank Dittmar
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OpinionOn what might have been
Unbuilt, unused and unappreciated. Gillian Darley explores architectural waste in all its forms
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OpinionIke Ijeh damns the Stirling Prize shortlist
This year’s shortlist compares badly alongside a building like No1 Poultry, writes BD’s architecture critic
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OpinionWhy Osborne was right to take back planning powers
We had our chance and were found wanting, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionHealing the rift between architecture, politics and finance
It’s in everyone’s interests to reform the planning system but those with the power have no overview and those with the overview have no power, argues Ruth Lang
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OpinionOn finishing part II
BD’s student columnist looks back on the last seven years of study and assesses how much has changed
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OpinionThe High Line has a lot to answer for
Hank Dittmar questions whether landscape urbanism offers cities anything more than window dressing
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OpinionArchitects have a long way to go to convince the public that Robin Hood Gardens is worth saving
Out-of-touch dinosaurs are not helping the cause, argues Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionScream if you want to go faster
As Dreamland in Margate reopens, Gillian Darley gets all nostalgic about the future
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OpinionShell Centre redevelopment 'to add to the necklace of cultural pearls along the Thames'
The end of the legal wrangling over the Shell Centre redevelopment is good news for London, argues the scheme’s masterplanner, Michael Squire
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OpinionProof we can build exceptional housing that is profitable, sustainable and desirable
RIBA president Stephen Hodder hails this year’s winners of RIBA National Awards
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OpinionCan we build it? Not on our own!
A reformed architectural education must promote collaboration and the value of existing buildings, argues Harriet Harriss
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OpinionHow John Nash’s Beautiful Mind could live on in a new generation of buildings
Adam Tarr of Mzo Tarr Architects argues that architects who don’t learn to use game theory are missing out on a valuable tool
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OpinionI'm not convinced by plans for No1 Poultry, says its project architect
As C20 Society tries to get Stirling’s icon listed, Andrew Pryke, who knows the building intimately, sounds a warning over Buckley Gray Yeoman’s redevelopment plans
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OpinionAnother brick in the wall
It’s not easy designing great schools under the new funding regime – but it is possible, says Ryder Architecture’s Richard Wise after his practice’s latest academy got a pasting at committee
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OpinionDon't forget everything before Part L
There is much to be learnt from our forebears before we even reach for the air-con, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionUsing art to breathe communities into life
Assemble’s Turner Prize nomination is recognition of the role public art and storytelling are increasingly playing in placemaking, says Fabienne Nicholas
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OpinionDon’t scrap the Palace of Westminster
The idea that we should build a new, literally transparent parliament is simplistic and learns nothing from recent history, says Hank Dittmar