Learn more about how the Building Safety Regulator is using industry steering groups, new British Standards for 2025 and how architects can help shape the future of competency
From fee scales to, yes, building regulations, this year’s professional features continue to provide guidance and best practice solutions.
A Melbourne office tower has over 1,000 solar cells on its facade, generating more energy than the building consumes
Traditional material scores highly on heritage and aesthetics too
Wayne Head is enthralled by this account of how Detroit's underground music scene benefited from the city's industrial decline
The city is both test-bed and exemplar for net-zero carbon ambitions
Faced with constant challenges when it comes to setting fees, how architecture practices demonstrate value is an important consideration.
King Abdullah Financial District station has the dramatic flourishes to lift the whole city
Gardens and arcades supplied future flexibility
Allies and Morrison restores and builds on tradition
We can nurture our identity in a connected world, says the Saudi architect
A fine piece of urban regeneration leads to Anne Holtrop’s Siyadi Pearl Museum
Learn more about new initiatives and frameworks that help to boost social value and purpose.
O-office Architects on the process of design and reuse on a remarkable indoor-outdoor building
Arup Hong Kong head of design Freddie Hai talks about his role as an authorised person,
First special issue of RIBAJ on the Gulf, covering outstanding new buildings, important voices and emerging ideas from across the region
The publicly acclaimed new line includes stations by Fosters, Grimshaw and McAslans
Learn more about how practices can make meaningful improvements to their ways of working in order to increase growth and efficiency
Why architects should use their diverse skills for the good of the whole planet
Learn more about the balance between openness and protection when it comes to BIM assets and intellectual property in a new era of sharing
Luxurious seafront scheme gives an authoritative taste of the city's future
Understand what's going to redefine tomorrow's built environment at this premier event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Timber looms large in the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire, both as a material and a design motif
Greg Holmes puts Tadao Ando’s modernist Garden of Fine Arts in Kyoto through a postmodern lens
Masterplan is part of critically speedy rebuild
From jungle to growing cities, post-colonial optimism is flourishing
Growing south needs newbuilds while retrofit suits built-up north
The developer of Heatherwick Studio's 1000 Trees in Shanghai talks about the importance of demographics
Learn more about a type of architecture that saw increased usage at the London Olympics in 2012 and now contributes to a more circular approach to large events
Learn more about this universally accepted safety net and how to calculate how much working capital is needed
Prejudice, rather than understanding, can make us too quick to dismiss or approve of buildings
Flat-pack system is both foldable and can bear large loads
Emulating plants by grafting onto and pruning existing buildings works for climate and design
Experts tackle how to cut data centres’ carbon footprint
The SAIL Centre by Studio Naqshbandi acts as the soul to the 47ha Earthspace campus in the city of Surat
Technical skills impressed but investigation and inquiry took the prize
Eye Line drawing competition first place (student)
Eye Line drawing competition second place (student)
Eye Line drawing competition commended (practitioner)
Eye Line drawing competition commended (student)
Eye Line drawing competition commended (student)
Artificial intelligence and other digital tech might be adding to the architect’s toolkit, but one practice argues that the hands-on approach still has a place.
How is China’s economic slowdown affecting architecture in Hong Kong? We speak to three practices