Briefing – Page 25
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FeaturesSpherical objects!
Technical innovations are making it easier to exploit the potential of spherical buildings
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FeaturesWhat you need to know about placing art in your projects
Public art can amuse or provoke - or just go rusty. Artist Sean Henry looks at some pitfalls
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FeaturesSherban Cantacuzino (1928-2018)
The Romanian-born former secretary of the Royal Fine Arts Commission led a remarkable life
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Features'Everyone faces barriers. Unfortunately it's some people’s flawed nature to create artificial barriers for others'
On International Women’s Day Ike Ijeh talks to leading architects about the challenges they have overcome
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FeaturesA walk around: Croydon
The south London suburb has been the butt of jokes for years. But that’s beginning to change, says Robert Park
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OpinionThe UN needs to appoint a chief architect
When 25,000 people met to talk about the future of cities, architecture was absent from the agenda. Daniel Elsea asks why
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FeaturesHow architectural drawings changed what we think about architecture
The moment when technical drawings took on an agency of their own
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FeaturesThe hitchhiker’s guide to Carlo Scarpa
Richard Murphy is now one of the foremost experts on Carlo Scarpa, but it all began with a serendipitous student visit
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FeaturesWhy you should be paying attention to Bangladesh’s architecture scene
Get ready to drop your preconceptions
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FeaturesRedundant city centre car parks: repurpose or demolish?
The city centre multi-storey car park is rapidly becoming redundant. Can they be repurposed?
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FeaturesHow do you design an embassy in a country like Yemen?
In a land with more guns that people, can you design an embassy that says, ‘Come in for tea’?
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FeaturesUrban design must shake off the shackles of the tabula rasa
The majority of land in our towns is already built on. If we limit urban design to big empty sites we are all the losers
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FeaturesBritain should lighten up and allow some fun into its public spaces
Give architects a really big site and stand back
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FeaturesBetween our two hands: Creating space for the analogue in architectural education
How can architects draw and specify materials they have never worked with?
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FeaturesWhy Frederick Gibberd deserves a place in our narrative of modern architecture
Christine Hui Lan Manley argues for the modernist’s place in the canon
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AnalysisThe new London Plan has got it wrong on density
Scrapping London’s density matrix could actually worsen the housing crisis, argues Duncan Bowie
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NewsBrexit deal ‘not enough’ to calm staff jitters
RIBA says architects need more reassurance about their ability to work after the UK leaves the EU
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FeaturesGoodbye brutalism… Hello post-modernism…
Stop writing that book on brutalism: it’s so last year. Time to get ready to love all those po-mo buildings you used to hate, says Tom Ravenscroft