All Opinion articles – Page 73
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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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Opinion
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.
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Opinion‘World class’ just means banal
An invitation arrives from the Swedish Association of Architects to speak to Stockholm politicians and planners. Icelandic volcanoes willing, I’ll go because the theme is urgent: the “world class city”
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OpinionWhose modernist icon is it anyway?
The Azerbaijani restaurant in Melnikov’s Rusakov club strikes an incongruous note
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Listen again
In reading Anna Winston’s article (“Sound decisions” IT April 16), I was very much reminded of the title of a text on acoustics for architecture students entitled “Deaf architects and blind acousticians”
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OpinionWaste watchers
With reference to Jonathan Glancey’s entertaining column (April 9) in which he suggests a book about Pevsner/Nairn Post-Thatcher/ New Labour Subtopian Trashpiles of Britain, I’ll happily chip in a fiver towards his advance
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Market mints it
Stewart Baseley from the Home Builders Federation writing about the Homes & Communities Agency’s proposed design standards (Debate April 1) is right that “it is about affordability”, but finding room for snooker tables is not the problem
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OpinionPoor thinking on low pay
The issue of low or no pay for students and newly qualified architect members is clearly a matter of importance to a profession that too often gives away cheaply its unique skills
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OpinionIs Scotland set to repeat the mistakes of Kickstart?
Yes, says Malcolm Fraser of Malcolm Fraser Architects; no, argues housing minister Alex Neil, it’s vital for the nation
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Invest in future
I must take issue with your slightly dimmed memory about design standards (“New Labour’s sorry legacy”, Leader April 1). If the quality of design and construction undertaken between 1979 and 1997 the laissez faire design-and-build era is anything to go by, heaven help the built environment if the Tories return
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OpinionCabe gives me engage rage
Le Corbusier must be turning in his grave at the modern obsession with ‘engaging the public’
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OpinionDanger of sidelining building
Election pledges to defend public sector jobs ignore our responsibility to decrease carbon emissions