All Opinion articles – Page 72
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Baby steps?
Does anyone out there know why the building regulations say that a railing to a stairs must be constructed so a 100mm diameter sphere cannot pass through the railings at any point
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Ask the members
GKV Tomlinson’s Letter of the Week (“RIBA fails to fight our corner” April 30) is one of the best I have seen in Building Design
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A phoney war
I am disappointed by the way you reported the issue of trainee architects’ low pay — and your insinuation that the RIBA and its president do not recognise that this is a very real issue
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Labour of love
While there are inevitable criticisms that can be levelled at Labour’s record, we recognise that architecture has generally done well under them
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OpinionTime is ripe to revive the ‘Rippon’ effect
By ensuring small-scale urban buildings are protected, we have saved some places, but have we gone far enough?
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OpinionDon’t let them off the hook
The construction industry has failed to take the three main parties to task over where public sector cuts will fall
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OpinionRIBA failed to fight our corner
As a retired architect I am very proud of the stand taken by my son Keith on the pathetic performance of the RIBA over the low pay issue
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OpinionWe must heed volcanic wake-up call
The importance of resilient, sustainable design has been brought home by the eruption in Iceland
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Plus ça change
“The appropriation of unpaid labour is the basic form of the capitalist mode of production and of the exploitation of the worker; that even if the capitalist buys the labour power of his labourer at its full value as a commodity on the market, he yet extracts more value from ...
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OpinionShould design be blamed for ‘Broken Britain’?
No, says Stephen Hill, politicians are responsible; while George Ferguson argues that bad design has led to the loss of social space
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OpinionBad neighbours
It was encouraging to see coverage of a project in so-unfashionable an area as Balsall Heath (Zero Carbon House Solutions April 23) and indeed encouraging to see that so much worthiness in carbon reduction and materials recycling had been achieved at the very competitive cost of just £1,160 per sq ...
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Status update
I do not think the Social Mobility Foundation should be encouraging youngsters from deprived backgrounds into architecture (News April 9)
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Paying the price
The recent story of architectural students being offered work at a rate of pay close to or below the minimum wage was deeply depressing but perhaps not entirely surprising given the current economic situation
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OpinionDoes the RIBA need to start paying its presidents?
Yes, says Andrew Hanson, an honorarium would be helpful, while Owen Luder says it might attract candidates drawn by the money
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OpinionVisa rules are highly unfair
To those rushing to support the Home Office’s new visa rules (News April 16) because you think it will help the job market and the profession, it won't
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OpinionYou get what you pay for
If the RIBA really wants to engage with members, it should make the presidency a paid position
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OpinionGet the picture
A few questions to Tate director Nicholas Serota about the extension to Tate Modern (News April 9)
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Correction
Contrary to information given to BD last week (News April 16), the figure most non-EU architects now need to earn to get a UK work visa is not £75,000 but £65,000, with extra points available for architects aged under 40.