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How will the Planning and Infrastructure Bill affect architects’ work?

1 week ago | ribaj.com | Eleanor Young

What impact will the Planning and Infrastructure Bill have on architects? Eleanor Young summarises the most important proposed legislative changesRead the legalese of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which first hit the House of Commons mid-March, and you would be forgiven for thinking it is just a rather painful copy edit of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. But that is just how changes in the law work.
Reforms to architectural education leave many facing an uncertain future

1 week ago | ribaj.com | Eleanor Young

The shifting focus of architectural education means change is guaranteed, but beyond that lie more questions than answers, finds Eleanor Young‘We are going to see change coming in over the next few years,’ says Jenny Russell, RIBA director of education and learning. ‘It’ll be a slow process and that is a good thing.’ This decade of change will gradually filter down into practices.
Hotel Romeo Roma: ZHA's palazzo conversion is a love letter to excess

2 weeks ago | ribaj.com | John Jervis

Zaha Hadid Architects’ hotel transformation of a 16th‑century Roman mansion sets out to achieve beauty through extravagance – a goal it comprehensively achievesApproaching the unremarkable facade of Palazzo Capponi, just off Rome’s Piazza del Popolo, there is little sign of the contemporary, beyond a small canopy above its arched doorway.
Artefact: practice widens its scope after impressing with home extensions

2 weeks ago | ribaj.com | Chris Foges

Since setting up almost impulsively during the pandemic, Artefact's founders Daniel Marmot and Benedetta Rogers have purposefully focused on the craft of constructionArtefact was born on a beach, and in a hurry. Founders Daniel Marmot and Benedetta Rogers were working at the same London practice, and taking on small side projects, when the opportunity arose to do a new build house together. With some family and friends in tow, they took a trip to Southend to consider their options.
Kiosks and food trucks bring energy to locations – we should take note

3 weeks ago | ribaj.com | Eleanor Young

The parade of temporary interventions on our streets injects them with joy, colour and life – and has lessons for architects, argues Eleanor YoungCarnivals for me are young farmers prancing around in fancy dress on the back of a trailer. The big band plays and crowds jostle in close.
Studio Saar: architecture practice linking Frome and Udaipur

3 weeks ago | ribaj.com | Eleanor Young

From Somerset to Rajasthan, ‘global, hyperlocal’ is how distinctive practice Studio Saar operates – thanks to its industrial backing and the impetus of its foundersNot many architectural practices are part of an industrial titan. But Studio Saar is one. Based in the Somerset town of Frome and the city of Udaipur in Rajasthan, India, it is the partnership of Jonny Buckland and Ananya Singhal, who met as undergraduates.
Interchange brings the drama to Paris's new suburban orbital metro

4 weeks ago | ribaj.com | Andrew Ayers

Back in 2007, in what seems like another world – one where Muammar Gaddafi was still president of Libya, Brexit was not a referendum issue, and architects’ expertise was taken seriously by governments – the then French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced the appointment of a think-tank to come up with ideas for the future of Paris and its hinterland.
Rowan Court: shrewd placemaking on an unloved triangle of land

1 month ago | ribaj.com | John Jervis

Satish Jassal Architects' new red-brick development of council homes in Haringey makes creative use of a difficult plot, and adds a welcome feel of solidity in the neighbourhoodTo reshape bits of London, finding scraps hidden behind shops, or on the fringes of housing estates, leaving your mark on the city, must be a gratifying feeling.
Churches provide enduring space for human connection

1 month ago | ribaj.com | Eleanor Young

Religious architecture shows that mass communications are not only a modern-day purview, and continues to provide spaces for humans to connect, argues Eleanor YoungWill you think me old-fashioned if I write about churches? Well, you shouldn’t. They were way ahead of television or social media, setting up mass communications in the Middle Ages, broadcasting values and summons to parishioners, far more effective – if a little less nuanced – than a town crier.
New College Oxford: university campus rethinks the quadrangle

1 month ago | ribaj.com | Chris Foges

Quadrangles at Oxford University have one thing in common: they are, as the name suggests, at least roughly rectilinear. Or at least they have been until now, with the arrival of curved quads at the Gradel Quadrangles designed by David Kohn Architects for New College. Bends and bulges abound in every detail of an ensemble comprising 94 student bedrooms and ancillary facilities, offices, a concert hall, and a classroom wing for a prep school attached to the college.