All Opinion articles – Page 89
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OpinionWomen’s work
Do you, like me, ever sit at your desk and wonder where the boundaries of your duties lie, or even whether our clients comprehend the task we have to do?
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Time to think
Carolyn Steel (Opinion December 5) raises an important question ignored for the past decade: how to improve derelict real estate and retain the community hub within it.
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OpinionOffence will lose RIBA members
Last week I received a letter from the president of the RIAS outlining the RIBA’s intention to increase subscriptions by 3% and asking for the views of the profession in Scotland. I am not in favour.
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Corrections
AOC teaches at London Metropolitan University, not Leeds, as stated in Debate, December 5.
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Walled off
Herzog & de Meuron’s Tenerife Arts Space (bdonline November 5) is a site plan/masterplan for a vast area turned into an axonometric.
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No question
Your interview with Roger Hawkins does not seem to answer the fundamental question as to why London’s squares need pedestrianising at all.
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OpinionLocal heroes
May I add my voice to that of Ealing Council’s Gavin Leonard (Letters December 5) in extolling the virtues of the local authority in-house architecture department
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Flexible friend
In my search for architectural work I followed the advice of David Gloster and others (Analysis October 24)
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No call for change
Parliament Square (Solutions December 5) is already a very fine pedestrian space, skilful in its design, masterplan and detailed elements
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Back to panels
You suggest that “a huge cheer greeted the latest review of the planning system” (Leader November 28). I am not sure who from!
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Design for all
As an aged architect-planner, I was heartened to hear your call for the borough architect to be brought back.
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OpinionDesign advice is key to planning
Jonathan Glancey’s suggestion (November 28) about setting up design training oriented towards planning would be beneficial in the long term
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OpinionWill moving really be better?
The Design Museum may appear to be a white knight come to save the Commonwealth Institute building, but is it just a vanity project with no real purpose?
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OpinionCorporate educators are bad business
Designers love Westminster Academy, but is what’s going on inside really such a good idea?
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OpinionPrickly problems at Shanghai
Finding some meaningful content for the British pavilion at the 2010 expo brings back memories of the Millennium Dome
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FeaturesMrs Beckett: style icon or menace?
Margaret Beckett is back in government, this time as housing minister, but will her love of caravaning lead to more flexible attitudes on how to address the UK’s housing needs?
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Does architecture operate like an old boys’ club?
Of course — look at the figures, says Dennis Sharp partner Yasmin Shariff, but Marks Barfield director Frank Anatole believes things are changing
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Technical
Offsetting must form part of our carbon-cutting diet
Phil Clark argues the merit of using carbon offset schemes in the quest to reduce global CO2 emissions