All practice articles
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Opinion
Are property events worth the cost? Only if you have a plan and follow through
Oliver Lowrie shares lessons from the frontline of property event season – and why success depends on more than just showing up
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Features
Orms: designing architecture that listens and responds to a changing world
Source: Tim Soar The new studio space at 160 Old Street Ben Flatman speaks to John McRae and new director Miranda MacLaren about how Orms is evolving as a practice
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Opinion
How the principles of B Corp help us perform better as a business
As the backlash against ESG and EDI grows – especially in the US – Rachel Bell explains how a values-driven approach is strengthening Stride Treglown’s culture and improving the service it offers clients
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Features
1.5 million homes and counting: what Jas Bhalla thinks comes next
Ben Flatman speaks to Jas Bhalla – architect, planner and founder of Jas Bhalla Works – about building a practice rooted in long-term thinking
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Opinion
Why architects need to prove their worth – and charge for it
How can architects justify charging more? Matt Thompson argues that proving their worth is the first step to solving the fees crisis
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Review
Review | RIBA Ethical Practice Guide
Eleanor Jolliffe finds the latest in RIBA’s professional practice guides a stimulating, but at times frustrating, read
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Opinion
Why we’ve completely rewritten the RIBA Handbook of Practice Management for a changed world
The fully revised 10th edition is intended as a ‘primer for people running businesses’, writes Matt Thompson
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Features
Henley Halebrown: ‘We are genuinely interested in how people use buildings’
Simon Henley and Gavin Hale-Brown met at the University of Liverpool in 1986 and have been friends ever since, forming their award-winning practice together in 1995. Here Ben Flatman discusses their early influences, design philosophy, and commitment to improving access to the profession
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Opinion
Engineering the future: We need to start making better use of materials
Materials are not just about applied finishes. By thinking about their structural, thermal and acoustic qualities, we can use them more effectively, writes Alex Lynes
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from reducing the amount of carbon in basements?
We need to think about decarbonisation on even the most challenging projects, writes Anna Beckett
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Opinion
We need a more nuanced debate on retrofit
Big developers are driving innovation in decarbonisation and helping establish what ‘good’ looks like in the sector, writes Andrew Teacher
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from sharing our ideas?
We need to collaborate more to ensure we come up with the best solutions, writes Anna Beckett
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Opinion
Engineering the future: How to spot greenwashing
Alex Lynes shares the key questions we need to ask to find out if we’re being greenwashed
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from being a bit kinder to ourselves?
After the last few years we all owe ourselves a proper break, writes Anna Beckett
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from standing up for what we believe in?
We have a responsibility to speak up about projects that are ethically questionable. Only by challenging the status quo can we achieve change, writes Anna Beckett
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Opinion
Why we need foundational change in how we engage young people with the built environment
Youth centres have been closed across the UK and fewer and fewer children are studying design for GCSE. Fiona MacDonald and Matt Springett make a rallying cry for change
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from designing more resilient buildings?
Being reactive to climate change is not enough. We must anticipate new challenges and design intelligently for a new era of extreme weather, writes Anna Beckett
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Opinion
Conservation and the climate emergency
Our built heritage has an important role to play in addressing the climate emergency. We must allow it to adapt, writes Laura Baron
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Opinion
Kwarteng out, Hunt in? Who needs TV satirists when we have the Liz Truss show?
The UK is in unprecedented political turmoil, devoid of any strategy and increasingly resembling a Chris Morris satire, writes Andrew Teacher
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Opinion
Engineering the future: we need to stop designing buildings backwards
We need to think about the structural and services guts of a building right from the start of the design process, writes Alex Lynes