All Opinion articles – Page 35
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OpinionBringing buildings back to life
Amanda Baillieu laments the decision to give a permanent home to a Manchester arts festival held in disused buildings
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OpinionBigging up Battersea: a progress report
Bjarke Ingels’ ‘urban canyon’ power station entrance repeats the mistakes of 1960s planning, warns Hank Dittmar
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OpinionTo have or have not
Finns are proud of their home-grown designers, but that doesn’t mean they could never embrace a foreign architect for the Helsinki Guggenheim, says Elizabeth Hopkirk
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OpinionConjuring buildings into life
The words we use to describe our surroundings can transform our appreciation of them, argues Gillian Darley
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OpinionWe should be preaching to the converted
Why does a hostile public still equate ‘modern architecture’ with glass and steel when so many architects are designing exactly the kind of buildings they should love, asks BD’s student columnist Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionWhat happens when you put nomads in tower blocks?
In her second dispatch from Mongolia, Tanja Smith from Gradon Architecture explores the challenges faced by a developing nation when two cultures collide
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OpinionIs there a BIM architecture?
Ike Ijeh investigates whether the rise of BIM software is beginning to have an impact on the way our buildings look
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OpinionTall storeys: the battle for Bishopsgate
Plans for the redevelopment of Bishopsgate Goodsyard have already provoked a storm of protest. Ike Ijeh has a look at why
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OpinionRise of the machines
Technology is elbowing out human inefficiency in architecture, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionActually, Stirling had a vintage year
The RIBA’s director of outreach counters the charge that nobody noticed UK architecture’s biggest prize this year
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OpinionWhatever happened to planning in London?
On the fourth anniversary of the Localism Act, planning has never felt less local, argues Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionPublic apathy in the Stirling Prize is a critical issue for architecture
Biggest night in the architectural calendar? Unfortunately, writes BD’s student columnist, the public barely noticed
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OpinionPink zones to lighten planning red tape
Relaxing planning rules would help create a new generation of George Fergusons and Bennie Grays, argues Hank Dittmar
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OpinionDesigning better workplaces
Well-designed offices get colleagues talking. Just ask the tech firms, says Amanda Baillieu
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OpinionFight for our rights of way
Redevelopment can mean cherished routes are cut off once work is finished. Gillian Darley bemoans a worrying trend
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OpinionMaterial evidence
The first of the Royal Academy’s Meaning in Materials series took the audience from specification guides to the moon and back, writes Joanna Day
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OpinionRaising the curtain on creativity
Miya Ushida explains why a mentoring charity in King’s Cross is the perfect partner for the Kathryn Findlay Future Fund, set up in her mother’s memory
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OpinionSo, why do you want to be an architect?
A generation gap separates first-year architecture students from part IIs, finds BD’s student columnist
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OpinionStirling Prize: A new age of civic building?
The endearing normality of Haworth Tompkins’ victorious Everyman Theatre embodies a renewed civic spirit
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OpinionGet your own house in order first, RIBA
RIBA needs to clean up its act on competitions before it tells others how to do it, says Amanda Baillieu