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NewsCabe backs RIBA in procurement battle
Design Council Cabe has entered the fight to overhaul the procurement process, which it admits has been a “besetting problem” for architects.
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OpinionCanning it
In austerity Britain, RIBA planned this year’s Stirling prize jamboree rather well.
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FeaturesLife class: Owen Luder
The two-time RIBA president reflects on the goals he has achieved and the ambitions he would have liked to have fulfilled
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OpinionAngela Brady goes east
Given the choice of chairing a session on housing at the Labour party conference or going to the UIA conference in Tokyo …
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OpinionRIBA council cosies up
Angela Brady’s first RIBA council meeting, as Boots has reported before, will take place not in the council chamber but in the Wren room on the sixth floor.
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NewsMost public work ‘to go to firms with 250+ staff’
The government has revealed that it would like to see 75% of public sector work going to just a handful of the UK’s largest architecture firms.
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NewsPessimism grows among UK architects
The number of architecture firms expecting workloads to increase fell last month, according to the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey.Practices expecting more work dropped from 27% to 25% between July and August, while the number of firms expecting to see a drop in workload increased, rising from 22% to 23% ...
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NewsTop names back Rykwert for medal
The campaign to have Joseph Rykwert honoured with the RIBA Gold Medal is gaining momentum as leading architects this week lined up to back his nomination.
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NewsArchitects attack RIBA’s space standards campaign
Concern move will damage relationships with housebuilders
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Opinion
Time for RIBA to name and shame
The Case for Space campaign (“RIBA launches housing space standards campaign”, bdonline September 14) is a welcome move.
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NewsRIBA launches housing space standards campaign
The RIBA has launched a major campaign against what it calls the inadequate size of Britain’s volume housing.It is hoping to engage the public in a national conversation at the same time as lobbying government and house builders to improve standards.It is taking a three-pronged approach: launching a HomeWise website ...
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NewsGoldschmied takes role on Sparch board
Ex-RIBA president Marco Goldschmied is joining former Archial business Sparch as a non-executive director, with his first board meeting set for next week in Hong Kong.
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Opinion
RIBA’s attempts to be 'cool' make it irrelevant
In a week when the front pages of the right-wing national press have been filled with stories about planning legislation, is the RIBA lobbying a hostile government for a greater role for architects in delivering this “sustainable development”? No?
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NewsRIBA president Brady voices concerns over planning reforms
The RIBA has entered the escalating row over the proposed planning reforms, warning that councils’ lack of resources could lead to unsustainable development.
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NewsArchitects back new RIBA chief in 'cool' revolution
Brady speaks of plans to bring young architects on board through RIBA satellite in Hoxton
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NewsRuth Reed ends RIBA presidency with final shot at Gove
Outgoing RIBA president Ruth Reed has aimed a parting shot at the industry’s nemesis by saying Michael Gove’s free schools initiative will cost more than budgeted.
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FeaturesAngela Brady: 'We need to start being a profession that looks out, not in'
The new president talks about the RIBA superbrand, an architects’ Groucho Club and overhauling procurement
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OpinionIs being cool an appropriate ambition for the RIBA?
Yes says Chris Roche, former RIBA Council member. No says Joe Morris, director at Duggan Morris Architects.