All Opinion articles – Page 35
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Space: The final frontier
Our understanding of the kinds of workspaces employees require is changing and this will result in offices that are more flexible and responsive to the varied needs of their occupiers, says DTZ’s James Maddock
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Style wars are irrelevant when architecture is reduced to floor-plate cladding
Architects should stop bashing each other and concentrate on the real enemy, says Hank Dittmar
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Fear and loathing in our cities
Should architects and planners be defending us from terrorists, asks BD’s student columnist
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Our challenges for the year ahead
Gillian Darley hopes she’s not being optimistic in wanting 2015 to deliver content over style
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Why space standards are a bad thing for the housing crisis
Delivering better homes requires a subtler approach than the blunt instrument advocated by the RIBA, argues Paul McGrath
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Mongolia - where it's normal for the boss to be a woman
In her third dispatch from Ulan Bator, Tanja Smith suggests one way UK construction firms could learn from their Mongolian counterparts
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A season of goodwill and peace to all men?
Eleanor Jolliffe reports from a building at the crossroads of history
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Bringing 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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Bigging 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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To 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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Conjuring buildings into life
The words we use to describe our surroundings can transform our appreciation of them, argues Gillian Darley
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We 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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What 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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Is 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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Tall 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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Rise of the machines
Technology is elbowing out human inefficiency in architecture, says Amanda Baillieu
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Actually, 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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Whatever 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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Public 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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Pink zones to lighten planning red tape
Relaxing planning rules would help create a new generation of George Fergusons and Bennie Grays, argues Hank Dittmar