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We can’t build quality homes without good design and placemaking
Good planning is a public benefit – an effective planning system will support, encourage and enable quality architecture and development, says Emily Booth
Opinion
Comment from leading voices in British architecture on news, practice and discourse
Is it possible to work on NEOM and still be an RIBA member?
Working on Saudi giga-projects such as NEOM conflicts not only with the obligations of being an ethical professional but with the very foundations of the RIBA, argues Duncan Baker-Brown
The Regs: Beware the Ides of March
Important changes to Approved Document B, the guidance relating to fire safety, come into effect in March 2025, warns Geoff Wilkinson
Why closing the Office for Place might not be a step back for placemaking
The last government’s Office for Place achieved a lot of good, but whilst beauty matters, placemaking demands more, argues Kunle Barker
Williamson: ‘Banning competitions is not the way forward’
Writing in an op-ed for the AJ, RIBA president-elect Chris Williamson explains his recent defence of architectural competitions following a backlash online
Aiming high on a lean budget: can Labour fund its housing promises?
How do the government’s ambitious housing and net-zero goals square with Labour’s first budget in 14 years? asks Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ Andy Macintosh
The Secret Architect: Somewhere, over the rainbow
The Secret Architect is tasked to design something simple and varied, cool (but not too cool), vague yet context-specific. Enter the rainbow
Building more homes won’t solve the housing crisis
As long as property is seen as a way of making money, too many houses will be used as second homes, short-lets or simply left empty, argues William Matthews
In an age of dizzying speed, architects need to slow down
In the modern age of convenience, architecture’s value lies in slow, methodical work by expert humans, argues Toko Andrews
It’s time for architecture to make space for nature between our buildings
The spaces between our buildings should be as important as the buildings themselves, says AJ editor Emily Booth