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The Coach: Maintaining motivation in challenging times
The new year has not started well and the prospect of weeks of lockdown looms. Louise Rodgers has some advice on how to help your team stay positive and productive
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WA100 2021: Don’t stop now
If we learnt anything from 2020 it is that we are capable of embracing great change – and that is a strength we are going to need
Cross-sector consultation is helping to put social value on the table
These new initiatives are important steps on the journey towards outcomes-based procurement. All now depends on their reception from clients
The Octopus has lost a leg
What the withdrawal of Stockport means for the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework
We need urgent clarity on the rules around external wall safety
Industry needs aligned and consistent guidance to minimise time, cost and anguish, warns Andrew Mellor
We can do things when we try
Covid-19 has exposed many uncomfortable realities but it has also shown what can be achieved in a very short time, writes Julia Park
Answer the question – and shoulder the responsibility
Dodging questions can have devastating consequences, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
Designing a better future for 2021 – and the next million years
Flora Samuel finds some hope in taking the long view
We must keep fighting the battle over PDR
Change is inevitable and town centres need repurposing, but these half-baked proposals need much more thought, writes Julia Park
Arcadia lost
As high streets go for a Burton, David Rudlin looks back at how the seeds of destruction were sown
Arcadia lost
As high streets go for a Burton, David Rudlin looks back at how the seeds of destruction were sown
So 2021, how should we prepare?
Martyn Evans reflects on what we can learn from a year like no other as the next one hoves into view
Whatever happened to The Crown episode where Charles triggers the architects?
The prince’s notorious speech was a missed opportunity for the profession to interest the public in what it does, writes Ben Flatman
Why is the industry waiting for the threat of jail?
Tough new building safety laws are on their way and they will shake up a complacent sector, writes Andrew Mellor
The adapt or die mantra still holds true for architects as a profession
Eleanor Jolliffe finds the existential preoccupations of a near decade-old RIBA report to be just as relevant today
The Coach: The importance of perspective
Our present isolation can make work all-consuming and intensify small dramas. Louise Rodgers offers advice on how to step back
Finding the way to build back better
New administrative groupings are needed in government and local authorities to ensure joined up strategy across the health, social care, transport and planning agendas, Flora Samuel writes
Which pigeonhole are you in?
Social profiling has become big business and high tech. David Rudlin traces its history back to a team of Victorians pounding the streets
A green homes revolution or total mayhem?
In theory the government is about to start retrofitting 2,700 homes every day. Really, asks Julia Park
Spiralling insurance premiums are putting architects out of business
The PI insurance crisis is a threat to architects but also to housing targets so the government will have to act, writes Andrew Mellor
Help at last for an Asian architectural gem
Conservation efforts in Lahore offer a fascinating insight into south Asia’s past and present, writes Ben Flatman
Could this pandemic be the making of home?
Covid-19 has changed the way we work but it could also alter our attitude to the place where we live
The Coach: Time to control the controllables
After a summer like no other you are probably in need of an autumn reset, suggests Louise Rodgers
Adding value has never been more important
Good design is core to making the world a better place, writes Flora Samuel
Consider the consequences before shutting out the traffic
Low-traffic neighbourhoods might sound like a good idea, but we should be wary of just jumping on the bandwagon, David Rudlin writes
How to pitch to developers – and how not to
Working out what makes you different, and relevant to a project, will help you to stand out from the crowd, writes Martyn Evans
Can a single person be competent to sign off a complex building?
And will insurers cover architects for the principal designer role, asks Andrew Mellor as he unpicks the rapidly changing rules
A fresher’s guide to starting an architecture degree
Architecture students had it tough even before covid struck. Eleanor Jolliffe has some advice for first-years
The Coach: How can we make tough conversations, healthy conversations?
How do you deal with difficult conversations at work, asks Louise Rodgers
In rejecting the spiritual we lose the chance to build connection
Earlier generations had no need to measure social value because it was innate, writes Flora Samuel
What exactly is chrono-urbanism?
David Rudlin asks the questions we would have been asking down the pub
Learning from lockdown: Don’t miss the chance for change
There’s no manual for returning to work. What works for the next practice might not work for yours. But this is the time to seize opportunities, writes Martyn Evans
The wrong answers to the wrong questions
The planning system needs wholesale reform but this white paper is not how to do it, writes Julia Park
Labour’s anger about Fire Safety Bill is misplaced
Change is coming, says Andrew Mellor as he sheds some light on a complex picture
