RIBA Journal magazine: | Design in the making

Holloway Li adds rooftop restaurant extension to Shoreditch hotel

The low-impact steel-clad addition to the 18-year-old brick-clad building floats above the existing plant, explains practice co-founder Alex Holloway in the first in a new series on retail and hospitality

2 December 2022

PiP education webinar: lessons in how to aid learning

Some of the lessons learnt in educational buildings are not formally taught in classrooms. Michèle Woodger hears about ways that good design and materials have enhanced learning environments

2 December 2022

Catch of the day: Fish Island Village by Haworth Tompkins

The 588-home scheme by the London Olympics site also includes studios and coworking space in answer to concerns that the area’s rapid transformation is simply gentrification

1 December 2022

Gosport cladding ruling gives pointer to post-Grenfell safety questions

Judgement defines ‘reasonable’ assumptions for designers

Universities adopt scientific approach to new workspaces

Changing working and learning sees science disciplines share facilities

In association with Vectorworks

Vectorworks Design Day presents a positive future

Software that helps faster, cleaner, brighter design

How Studio Weave kept costs and quality in accord at Lea Bridge Library

How to keep control of D&B procurement costs without compromising quality

Planning permissions include two schemes on 2012 Olympics site

Student housing by Henley Halebrown and a masterplan for Pudding Mill Lane have both been approved

SterlingOSB Zero works for café and workshop alike

Textured warmth strikes just the right vibe

David Russell Young and Henry Claymore Young's imagined future discovery of a series of modular structures dating from 2022 was overall winner of this year's West Fraser SterlingOSB Zero/RIBAJ competition

The imagined future discovery of new modular structures inside an existing one has won this year's West Fraser SterlingOSB Zero/RIBAJ competition

Rob Annable and Justin Pickard's design focuses on SterlingOSB Zero’s end-of-life material properties and how they can give something back to a fenland environment

Rob Annable and Justin Pickard's design focuses on SterlingOSB Zero’s very end-of-life material properties

Tom Birch and Elliot Nash's design is constructed twice over: a SterlingOSB Zero skin is used as shuttering for concrete, and then to wrap this concrete tower in a corridor of stepped floors

Tom Birch and Elliot Nash’s design uses SterlingOSB Zero as shuttering for concrete and then to intervene on the resulting tower

Ella Walklate, Reini Celmins, Alexander Vile and Adam Spreckley’s design, based on Glasgow's pigeon lofts, creates 10, single-occupancy SterlingOSB Zero frame structures on the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal

Ella Walklate, Reini Celmins, Alexander Vile and Adam Spreckley’s design is based on Glasgow's pigeon coops

This year's SterlingOSB Zero competition asked architects to design a country escape for up to 10 people, inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron

This year's SterlingOSB Zero competition asked architects to design a country escape for up to 10 people

Webinar: Design for Sustainability

How can architects rise to the challenge in an industry that contributes so significantly to the problem?

In association with Velux Commercial

This is how to use modular skylights to create high quality learning spaces

Key components help Clapham primary school achieve its daylight modelling targets

MawsonKerr uses timber frame cassettes for Passivhaus home in Northumberland

Factory-built timber units help build England's most northerly Passivhaus

In association with Geberit

Bathroom technology: the smart choice for housebuilders

The untapped potential of washroom innovations

Good as new: CISL completes Entopia, its sustainable office retrofit

How has the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s office refurbishment turned out?

Low lights are the highlight at DSDHA’s Exchange Square, London

DSDHA and Speirs Major insert greenery, human scale and clever lighting