Future Writers | Design in the making

2024 RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition runner-up: mind the gap – inaccessibility in British rail stations, by Ellie Olszewski-Smith

Greatly improved accessibility should be a key architectural function of train stations

RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition 2024 commended: the new tenants of Govan Docks, by Zachariasz Czerwinski

Glasgow’s deindustrialised docklands are fertile ground for wildlife adapted to human environments

2024 RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition runner-up: from dusk till dawn, by Siobhan Coker

Navigating the intricate tango of tradition and modernity within the Nigerian context

Competition closed: RIBA Journal/Future Architects writing competition 2024

Do you have something to tell the profession? We're open to entries until 29 March

Emerging writers competition winner: Fitzgerald’s Immigrants

Why we need a new approach to housing for new arrivals to the UK

Lyrical, critical and passionate: RIBAJ/Future Architects 2023 writing competition

Fresh perspectives on the profession, regulation and equitable design

Holly Milton: Social media trends vs architecture

The social media-fuelled desire to copy trends in our living environments is draining resources

Nikola Yanev: Brittle remnants

The photographs of Panayot Barnev evoke the fragile connection between place, memory and identity

Will Hayter: Overcoming turbulence

How memes give us hope, humour and relief in a pressured career

Future Architects: writers expand their horizons

Future writers consider our world from an architectural perspective

Danica Mitrić: Contextualising colonialism

How indigenous people in Canada reclaimed sites of oppression

Archigram's 1962 Nottingham Shopping Viaduct proposal points the way forward

Radical architecture group suggests a future for loathed Nottingham shopping centre, writes Harry Tindale

'I can’t breathe' – how Grenfell highlights racial inequalities in housing provision

Is there a racially-charged explanation for the Grenfell tragedy, asks Eilidh Allan

Preparing for re-entry

Shemol Rahman offers ways to end the ‘equal opportunities’ cop-out

Ending racism is a choice

‘Powerful take on racism’ wins writing competition

Future Architects use personal experience and global affairs to tackle issues facing architecture

Winners announced in RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition

Can we change the way we practise to improve the world?

Wajiha Afsar’s essay on how to put Wales’ Wellbeing Act into action

Charter Place shopping centre does nothing to revive a failing typology

Ruth Ramsden’s RIBAJ/Future Architects essay on the architecture of shopping centres

How to make co-living serve people before profit

Peter Lewis’ essay on co-living. second in RIBAJ/Future Architects competition

RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition 2020 – the results

Emerging architects are quite handy with words too