All Opinion articles – Page 7
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OpinionPolitics needs specialists from the built environment – and it needs you now!
The Conservatives are asleep at the wheel and lack the skills or desire to address the built environment’s multiple crises, writes Emma Dent Coad
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OpinionOpen-plan living is dead - bring back the serving hatch!
Open plan spaces are both inflexible and boring, so why not make use of some time-honoured alternatives, writes Chloë Phelps
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OpinionThe net zero challenge: feeling is believing
Forget everything you thought you knew about building design if you want to achieve net zero, writes Susan Roaf
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OpinionWill Oki the radical survive contact with the RIBA?
We should all wish Muyiwa Oki well, but he faces an uphill struggle, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionWhy is it so difficult to build a high street?
We can create thriving new high streets, but it requires curation and a different financial model, writes David Rudlin.
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OpinionThere is a candidate for everyone in this RIBA election, so go and vote!
RIBA members have every reason to be disenchanted but this list of candidates offers a real choice, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionThis is a more restrained Stirling prize shortlist, but not lacking in quality
Despite some surprising inclusions, this year’s Stirling prize has nominees to match the best from any previous year
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OpinionWhy I’m backing Jo Bacon for RIBA president
Jo Bacon is an experienced leader who already has an existing track record of meaningful reform at the RIBA, writes Amin Taha.
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OpinionThe future of the high street is here… and it’s industrial
’Last mile logistics’ has the potential to help reinvigorate our high streets, writes Simone de Gale
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OpinionThe Bartlett report was flawed and risks undermining academic freedom, to the detriment of all
By failing to carefully differentiate between accusations of genuine abuse and what may just be personal grievances, the Howlett Brown report has unfairly tarred all staff with the same brush and put academic independence in peril, writes Austin Williams
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OpinionWhy I’m backing Sumita Singha for RIBA president
Sumita Singha has the experience and the skills to lead the RIBA and unify its diverse membership, writes Jane Duncan OBE PPRIBA
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OpinionBoris Johnson may be going, but his built (and unbuilt) legacy will live on
More than any of his predecessors, Boris Johnson was a PM obsessed with big building projects, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionThe Bartlett open letter was an irresponsible use of institutional power
Social media accounts accused by a group of architects and academics of leading a “witch hunt” against Bartlett staff following last month’s bombshell report into alleged abuses at the school are the inevitable response to decades of inaction from UCL, writes Future Architects Front co-founder Charlie Edmonds
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OpinionWhat exactly do we mean by ‘landscape led’?
A recent report exposes the collapse in green space provision in new development but the reason is not what you might expect, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionBartlett report sheds much-needed light on our profession’s wider failings
The Bartlett sought to break down its students in order to build them back up again in the school’s own mould, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionArchitecture is ephemeral, urban design is eternal!
Most masterplans are never built but, once they are, they can last for ever – even if the name of the masterplanner is quickly forgotten, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionWhat can we expect from the Queen’s Speech?
Ben Derbyshire is optimistic that Gove will propose a range of innovative proposals
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OpinionWhat’s in store for these great British emporia?
An entire class of buildings has become redundant and risks being lost for ever, says David Rudlin. But it was never about their external appearance
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OpinionIt’s time to look after NHS staff if we want them to look after us
With the new hospital programme now underway, we should consider respite space provision for those expected to work in them so this can be incorporated into the design
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OpinionCities are being destroyed but their residents’ spirit survives
The Russian invasion is demonstrating the fierce loyalty of Ukrainians to their home environment, says David Rudlin