How Anna Heringer draws community power out of the ground
Anna Heringer loves mud, and has won some big prizes for her rammed earth designs. For her, architecture is not just a building but a route to human development
24 November 2020
Catch-up: Schumacher loses ZHA court battle
Court backs Zaha's executors to hold ZHA principal Schumacher in check as he continues to voice views at odds with the industry. Meanwhile the profession demands greater emphasis on building in PM's 'green industrial revolution', and Grenfell Inquiry is told Celotex manipulated fire test results
23 November 2020
Roger Watts’ new role at Somov’s Dostoevsky Drama Theatre
It’s panto time and Russian architect Vladimir Somov’s nutty but run-down 1987 Dostoevsky Drama Theatre in Veliky Novgorod is in line for a revamp. The competition for the job is being curated by Haworth Tompkins director Roger Watts. RIBAJ asks him what’s behind it
23 November 2020
In association with Arper
Arper furnishings chosen for Athens studio fit out
LC Architects picks Italian furnishings firm to provide finishing touches
Virtual course teaches students the basics of how to design a house in five days
How lockdown became an opportunity to gain skills and experience
In association with Amtico
Walk this way: floors that have something to say
Directional symbols and messaging can be slotted into existing tiles and planks
Feilden Fowles makes light work at Carlisle Cathedral
In creating an airy café, Feilden Fowles has modernised the Medieval and let the sun into Carlisle Cathedral’s Fratry
Oxygen at Work makes a truly green office
Plants, sensors and live dashboard cut energy and boost wellbeing
Redefine design towards renew, reuse, repurpose
We must give renewal a bigger role in design
Editor's cut
Architects key to our better plans says housing minister Pincher
Designer who unified and simplified Britain's transport signs
Home’s insulating over-layer improves comfort and reframes views
Scruffy Lincolnshire holiday home becomes a thing of austere beauty
Third age homes blow, Foster's arresting prospects and Thamesmead boon
How can we make 19 million homes carbon zero by 2050?
Tax incentives for householders is key, says RIBA Greener Homes report
Ways for specifiers to keep it all Covid-clean
Counter-Covid products are still very much in demand
Battambang WaterHall supplies both clean water and social space
OOA’s ‘life-changing’ scheme done on a US$30,000 budget
In association with Vectorworks
Virtual Vectorworks Design Day looks beyond architecture
This year's online event allowed the industry to break out of its silo
Anthony Paul Rossi, meticulous and erudite conservationist
Anthony Paul Rossi 1932 – 2020
In association with Serge Ferrari