All Opinion articles – Page 72
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Building on the bureaucratic rubble
Coalition government could be the best news the construction industry’s had in years
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OpinionOur heritage is in your hands
The Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail needs your help to survive
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OpinionGove gets off to a bad start
The new education secretary’s ill-informed remarks suggests he has little understanding of architecture
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OpinionPatrolling the windowbox war zone
Whatever the scale, it’s not always easy to reach consensus in battles over our environment
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RIBA stands by as we lose work
Jane Duncan, RIBA practice vice-president, emailed members last week on low pay
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Learn from this
“Job losses are also expected at the Business Academy, Bexley, which has a £500,000 budget deficit brought about by expensive repairs to its £31 million Norman Foster building.” Times Educational Supplement reporting on teacher redundancies
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In need of new leadership
The next RIBA president must be someone willing to fight architects’ corner
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OpinionLet’s keep politicians out of it
Whoever wins the election, we don’t want them meddling with architecture
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Don’t forget us
John Kellett (Letters April 23) says architects are the only professionals qualified to design buildings from conception to completion
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OpinionIs RIBA showing the signs of an organisation in crisis?
Yes, says Chris Roche, as exemplified by the failure of many council members to declare their interests; but Andrew Hanson argues that the RIBA exists to do far more than promote its members’ interests
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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