"It's time for architects to choose ethics over aesthetics"

Architects can limit the environmental impact building has on our changing climate using their power as specifiers, they just need to take responsibility and do it, says Christine Murray.Architects are quick to bemoan their loss of status, sensing the growing lack of respect for the profession. The unveiling of £250m trinkets, such as Thomas Heatherwick's stairs-to-nowhere The Vessel, do little to subvert the public perception of architects as court jesters to the rich, comp