Business opportunities

How should architects deal with clients if they don’t pay invoices on time?

Learn more about engaging with client finance departments and how to maintain healthy cashflow

How architects can put together a business continuity plan

Learn more about the benefits of having a plan, and how to go about putting one together

Navigating the Building Safety Act's position of Principal Designer

What's different with the new role, what are the pros and cons of taking it on?

What do architects need to know about extended limitation periods under the Defective Premises Act?

Learn more about liability periods and what role the Building Safety Act plays

How architects can become better practice mentors

Learn more about the programs architects put in place to help mentees

5 enduring changes to the workplace and what you need to know about them

How, when and where we work is evolving at pace

Richard Griffiths seeks a better name for the architecture of adaptation

What’s in a name? Why retrofit and preservation won’t do

What does the latest RIBA data say about the year ahead for architects?

The RIBA Future Trends Workload Index shows improvements in some categories, but uncertainty is still expected

Working with tradespeople on site is key to Passivhaus success

How to make sustainable buildings that deliver on their promise

Opportunities: Developers eye empty shops for hospitality and healthcare

Diversified uses could revitalise the declining high street

Opportunities: The metaverse

Bloomberg recently estimated the market to be worth $800bn. Is it virtual opportunity or a distraction from ‘real’ work?

Become inclusion fit and plan.

Cultural intelligence: think of it like Couch to 5K

Our final step on the route to inclusion

The central staircase at the RIBA’s 66 Portland Place. Accessibility within the building is an important part of the brief for updating the building

RIBAJ Opportunities Hub launches with 66 Portland Place competition

The revamp of the RIBA's headquarters is the lead item in our new online opportunities hub

Building Safety Bill returns profession to centre stage

What the Building Safety Bill means for architects

Do post-pandemic homes need the return of the porch?

The house of tomorrow might best be served by adding a porch

Platform design: can architects fit together a new way of working with P-DfMA?

How do architects fit together a role in P-DfMA?

PII is failing architects, say RIBA members

Indemnity insurance costs are soaring while exclusions are forcing practices to turn down work

Inhabiting generous external spaces, business parks, as well as diversifying the building uses, could create a richer more communal centre as Apt’s concept sketch shows.

Business parks are ripe for a resurgence

The unloved out-of-town compound could play a key role in establishing new workplace models

Opportunities for design as coastal towns eye staycation revival

Opportunities for architects open up by the seaside

What the School Rebuilding Programme means for architects

DfE's Crawford Wright on what the government wants from its £1bn programme

Skyroom makes affordable room up top

How architects can help build keyworker homes

Architect’s safer schools guide aims for clarity and joy

Guidance offers post-Covid promise too

Rethink: How to design home working happy

From Shoffice to in-house studio, ways to design home working

Rethink: how stadium design is evolving for post-Covid events

What will going to the match be like – when we finally can?

Rethink: How Covid is rearranging the design of homes

Huge improvements in domestic space are possible – and necessary

How to design the best learning environment

Lessons for the quality, classroom major on sustainability, flexibility and collaboration

Rethink: Covid-19 puts urban realm in the design spotlight

Architect experts on deliverable, characterful public spaces

Rethink: What has Covid-19 taught us about designing schools?

Priorities for spending the government’s £1bn for education

Coping with Covid: How library design will need to change

Key points from IF_DO’s report, Safer Libraries

Empty workspaces become lived in communities

Get Everyone In by Benjamin Holland, Olivia Dolan and Katie Williams wins Rethink 2025 building category

Arterial Holloway Road becomes clean, green, safe, happy space

Streets are Made for Walking by PeopleMatter.

London becomes a patchwork of food-producing landscapes

Urban scale winner Greater London Agriculture by Tim Rodber and Dominic Walker mitigates against future pandemics

Architects burst with ideas on how to rebuild society

RIBA members from 18 countries accept challenge to envision a post-pandemic world

Where do architects predict the most change to life post-pandemic?

Rethink 2025 proposals for the street, workplace & education, villages & suburbia, and living

Inequality in the UK tackled at street level

Commendation for Andrew Jackson's 'achievable' Catalogue of Regeneration

How Newham could become the Green Lungs of London

Rethink 2025 commended: Mark Bonshek, Sabba Khan and Khan Bonshek address the vulnerability of minority ethnic groups