RIBA Journal magazine: | Design in the making

What Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ planning victory could mean for London’s housing

A successful planning appeal to create a 428-home build-to-rent scheme in West Ealing shows how housing delivery, density and good design can be reconciled on complex urban sites, writes practice director Alex Lifschutz

2 July 2025

Nic Clear and Hyun Jun Park’s ghostly renders transport viewers through space and time

Academic duo win the Practitioner category of Eye Line 2025 with their ethereal images extracted from point cloud data, including a haunting evocation of Virginia Woolf’s home

1 July 2025

Max Cooper-Clark conducts a stirring, emotive study of a toxic Pennine landscape

Royal College of Art student wins Eye Line 2025 with his beautiful, disturbing work on the village of Nenthead, where historic lead mining has poisoned the environment

1 July 2025

AIA conference gives an insight into changing priorities for US architects

What did the 2025 AIA annual conference tell UK architects interested in working in the states?

A landmark home on the wild north Cornish coast is stealthily remodelled

A truly unusual house sited atop an isolated rock is reconfigured to better relate to its context

In association with Maxlight

A glazing solution so beautiful you only see the view

Open and shut case: sliding door specification creates a unique sense of place at Hope Villa

‘The enduring power of images to beguile’: judging Eye Line 2025

The parameters of realness in architectural images were up for discussion at this year's Eye Line

Dominik Los spins a ripping yarn with exquisite, near-photographic renders

Part 2 architectural assistant beguiles with a playfully reimagined second-century monastic complex

In association with Duration Windows

All the good looks of steel without the price tag

Cost-effective, A-rated aluminium alternative offers slender design and easy installation

Erik Rokke’s fluid interpretations of architecture bring a joyous sense of liberation

Swedish architect impresses with the effortless flow of his pen and watercolour drawings

With a Baroque ceiling that exists only as a text prompt, Thomas Parker sketches the future

Bartlett teaching fellow wows with an ‘experimental, transformative and unexpected’ AI-generated entry

In association with Graff Designs

Tapping into water works wonders for wellbeing

Power of a shower: turn a bathroom into the cornerstone of a home’s emotional architecture

In association with Crittall

The all-new science of steel window making

Lean, clean, precise: five manufacturing advancements are allowing architects to achieve increasingly intricate fenestration solutions

Quadri Oyetunde weaves Nigerian Yoruba culture deep into a ‘gloriously immersive’ realm

Flamboyant, saturated and richly textured images take third place in the Eye Line 2025 Student category

Hamish McAndrew’s ‘thinking drawing’ investigates a Scottish cottage's context

Fife-based architect contributes a highly evolved study of a listed home and its coastal setting

Oscar Ssu Kuo Lo's intensely detailed drawings get under buildings’ skins

Architectural Association student ambitiously peels back buildings' layers to leave them 'skinned'

Jack Oaten imagines a reforested England feeding the construction industry at scale

Part 2 assistant at Scott Whitby Studio suggests a home-grown timber industry based on a vast new forest

In association with Pure Vista

Maximise views with a minimalist balustrade

Frameless, robust glass and spigot design preserves sight lines while ensuring user safety

In association with Building Systems UK

Deliver your external envelope solutions sustainably

BREEAM Excellent rating for this large scale logistics warehouse in Birkenhead Freeport

On Rotterdam’s dockside, MAD’s gleaming Tornado stirs the skyline

The Chinese studio’s double-helix staircase creates a powerful spectacle that complements its industrial context

Making Buildings: Lambeth Palace gets a sustainable retrofit

Wright & Wright on how its retrofit of the Archbishop of Canterbury's London home is progressing