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OpinionRIBA is here for you, with a plan
Thank you for reporting my proposal that a national programme of energy upgrade of the existing housing stock would be a highly effective way to invest public money to mitigate the effects of the recession (News November 14). How strange then, to mislead your readers by suggesting this constitutes the ...
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NewsRIBA to refurb HQ roof terraces
A competition to redesign three roof terraces at the RIBA’s London headquarters at 66 Portland Place has been launched.
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OpinionHow can the RIBA help you?
We’ve waited patiently for the RIBA to give a lead on the recession, and now it’s finally come, it’s simply not enough
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NewsRow grows as RIBA shops ban ACA’s rival contract
The row between the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects over client contracts has escalated after it emerged that the institute is refusing to stock the ACA’s rival contract in its bookshops.
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News
RIBA launches research project into opportunities for disabled architects
RIBA, in collaboration with the University of the West of England, has launched a year-long study of the opportunities available to disabled architects, and how they are treated at work.
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Competitions
RIBA launches Leicester footbridge competition
The RIBA has announced a design competition for a foot and cycle bridge over the River Soar in Leicester.
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News
RIBA fellowships recognise international practices
The RIBA has awarded seven new international fellowships in recognition of the work of international practices.
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News
RIBA to expand into Middle East and Asia
RIBA is to launch three new international chapters in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Gulf.
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News
RIBA calls for simplification of planning rules
The RIBA has called for simpler planning rules for smaller developments and for more to be done to encourage the establishment of local design review panels.
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AnalysisRIBA’s half-term report
Sunand Prasad completes his first year as RIBA president this month. Liz Bury grades his progress in key subjects and outlines areas where he must do better
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News
Prasad hits out at RIBA ‘old boy’s club’ attack
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at the head of one of the UK’s biggest architecture practices after hearing him describe the profession an “old boy’s club”.
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OpinionDon’t judge the RIBA awards
The RIBA awards are the most robust and rigorously judged in architecture.
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News
RIBA calls for Norwich designs
The RIBA has launched an invited competition to design up to 100 homes on the Greyhound Opening site in Norwich, less than a mile outside the city centre.
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NewsACA seizes on RIBA letter defending new contract
The Association of Consultant Architects has branded the RIBA’s review of its new standard contract as “extraordinary” after RIBA vice-president Jane Duncan wrote to all her members in an attempt to allay fears about the contract.
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OpinionDoes the RIBA do enough for regional architects?
Former RIBA president George Ferguson is convinced that it does, but presidential hopeful Ruth Reed feels it fails to do enough
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OpinionRIBA: proud of our brand
I read last week’s BD at my Knoll kitchen table as I ate my Scott’s Porage Oats which I selected over Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.
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News
RIBA plans election manifesto
If you could sit down with the prime minister over coffee and tell him three things architects could do to improve life in Britain, what would they be?
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News
RIBA mulls tough line on timber
The RIBA will consider its advice to architects on timber sustainability after Greenpeace condemned two more lottery-funded projects, by John Miller & Partners and Zoo Architects, for using endangered wood.
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News
RIBA battles for power
Architecture’s ruling bodies set to clash as RIBA report calls for restrictions to Arb’s remit
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Opinion
RIBA must kiss and make up with Arb
The RIBA’s latest challenge to the Arb marks yet another battle in a futile war.