Practice management

Rising Stars 2025 – enter now

Are you a brilliant early-career design professional? We want to recognise your potential

How have architects adopted the UK/US mutual recognition agreement two years after it was signed?

Checking in with four architects on both sides of the pond who have gone through the application process

Roundtable: Boost your business resilience

As profits fall, a roundtable looked at how architects can best bounce back and adapt to new situations

Overseas income helps push UK practice revenue to over £4bn

A surge in overseas work could help boost revenue growth for UK practices

How to handle being undercut on fees

It is increasingly important for architects to set out the true value of their services

Design, buy, build: how Craftworks delivers the full package

Luxury residential Villa Fontaine aims to disrupt conventions of traditional procurement

Our top five professional features for 2024

From fee scales to, yes, building regulations, this year’s professional features continue to provide guidance and best practice solutions.

What are the key principles for architects when it comes to setting fees?

Faced with constant challenges when it comes to setting fees, how architecture practices demonstrate value is an important consideration.

What could UK architects learn from Hong Kong’s authorised person role?

Arup Hong Kong head of design Freddie Hai talks about his role as an authorised person,

How an industry-wide standard for net zero buildings was created

A pilot has been published for a UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard

Weston Williamson on how it managed its global expansion

WW+P's chief executive on how the practice achieved its worldwide expansion

Cost considerations in projects go beyond the bottom line

How to marry value engineering and sustainable design

Leader: When reuse throws up a curveball

The architecture of reuse can lead to surprise revelations once a project goes on site

Architects' falling salaries prompt deeper study of income differentials

Age and location widen the pay gap as salaries stall

Construction under the Building Safety Act: our active response

Pilbrow & Partners is putting collaboration, competence and checking at the heart of quality control

Putting people first pays off

How AEW won a place on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list

The irrepressible spirit of Hong Kong practice

How is China’s economic slowdown affecting architecture in Hong Kong? We speak to three practices

Why architects must fundamentally change the way they practise

Tim Bailey offers some radical alternatives to current ways of working

Scotland’s new heat standard ups the UK's zero carbon ante

What does Scotland’s New Build Heat Standard mean for designers and the rest of the UK?

Whole life carbon assessments: where should architects start?

Why should we carry out whole-life carbon assessments and where do we start?

How can architects bring social value to projects?

How to create a positive impact for your clients and communities

Future-focused thinking can be the key to business success

The RIBA launches its first-ever horizon-scanning programme RIBA Horizons 2034

Tools to fire the journey to net zero

Understanding whole life carbon assessment

What the new building regs mean for fees and resources

Honest discussion with clients is key to the new regime

Building Safety Act: rebalancing procurement and programme

Rebalanced programmes and early supplier involvement are key to new regime

What can architects learn about billable work in the RIBA Business Benchmarking report?

The proportion of staff time spent on billable hours is an important contributing factor to profitability

Architect's practice revenue up – along with costs

Spectacular rise in practice income is eclipsed by higher costs

Navigating the Building Safety Act's position of Principal Designer

What's different with the new role, what are the pros and cons of taking it on?

Practice resilience: how to survive and thrive

Ways to maintain business stability and boost growth

Meet the shortlist for 2023’s RIBA Client of the Year

As the shortlist is announced, we get an insight into how great architecture clients think

Homes design gears up for new overheating regulations

How Approved Document O will cut overheating in house and apartment design

What mattered most in the design of Morris+Company’s new studio

Circularity was central to the fit-out, says Joe Morris

Building Safety Act: full details published

The Building Safety Act explained

Bushra Mohamed of Msoma: you need resilience to go it alone

Why a mentor might make the difference

How to be sure you avoid greenwashing

Bennetts Associates on its anti-greenwash charter that other architects can sign up to

How – and why – to set the right fees, a practice management webinar

Get your fees right by understanding your practice

What architects need to know about copyright when taking on existing projects

Learn more about copyright and license provisions in contracts and how the RIBA Code can help you

How architects can safeguard themselves from descoping

Learn more about what to do when a project is delayed, reduced in scope or descoped

How to design housing schemes that are at home in their place

How do we make developments that belong?