All articles by Paul Morrell
-
OpinionThe drawing board versus the digger
With contractors increasingly in the driving seat, architects must work harder to prioritise good design
-
Opinion
Do you have a better mousetrap?
Recession can be a good time to launch a business, but don’t bother if you’re offering nothing new.
-
OpinionBright new talent from tough times
The downturn is shaking up the natural order to architecture’s benefit
-
-
OpinionSecret of success is in the sequence
Another look at the Plan of Work could help enhance the role of designers
-
OpinionTime to put an end to all the arguing
Newly redundant lawyers will have more time to contemplate their usefulness
-
OpinionThis PFI critique has a vested interest
Unison isn’t offering us a workable alternative procurement method
-
OpinionCreating value is the road to reward
Nostalgia and protectionism are distractions from the reality of how to make a living
-
OpinionAbsolution ain’t a modern solution
Consultants can no longer rely on papal mercy when projects bust their budgets big time
-
OpinionDon’t just wait for good times to return
It will be the final misery of these times if all we emerge with is downsized businesses and nastier buildings
-
OpinionWhat's so rewarding about bonuses?
Target-based payments can in fact motivate against professionalism
-
OpinionLearn – and teach – lessons of history
The government is taking money from BSF and giving it to the car industry. Be very afraid
-
OpinionLet’s fix the roof before the next storm
We need to align policy around the idea that our homes are not a suitable subject for speculation
-
OpinionWant to save lives? Dump the CDM regs
Procedures don’t work as well as real people with experience, skill and judgement
-
OpinionWhat now – the bunker or the bike?
Never mind weeping and wailing — how are you going to get through the meltdown?
-
OpinionWe need a starting point to get better
Cabe sets a standard for good school design, and one response from the architectural community — there is no such thing, of course, but it will do as a shorthand — is that the procurement process has to be sorted out before a quality standard can be adopted.
-
OpinionIs losing the bid now a better option?
Convoluted EU procurement rules are a circle of hell. Let’s junk them and start again
-
OpinionThings to ponder on the sun lounger
HMSO can offer some different holiday reading, but its plot lines and endings will let you down
-
OpinionKeep the whip hand on 2012 spending
As the mayor’s man on the Olympic project, does David Ross hold a poisoned chalice?
-
OpinionWe must break out of this prison cycle
Prisons don’t work — it’s been shown time and again. So why do we keep building them?