Royal Institute of British Architects Journal

Contemporary Eagle House façade between historic buildings on an urban street

Historic stone cottages connected to a modern black-clad extension beside landscaped planting

Curved built-in reading nook with blue paneled walls, integrated wooden bookshelves, and a central window seat; two people sit reading within the alcoves, while a black dog lies resting on the window bench overlooking greenery

Illustration on a chalkboard showing a balanced scale with the words “Credit” and “Debit” on opposite sides, symbolizing the relationship between accounting credits and debits

Practices ‘unsure they are recovering all fees due’, says digitisation survey

Aerial view of a tall brick residential tower rising above the surrounding urban neighbourhood.

Gavin Finnan and Tom Smith

Beds and sheds: the architecture of co‑location and intensification

Contemporary Eagle House façade between historic buildings on an urban street

From eyesore to community asset: IF_DO’s revamp of Eagle House in Hastings

Participants gather around a workshop table covered with drawings, sketches and models, cutting materials and assembling design concepts by hand.

Ashwin Goyal, Helen Taylor and Wiktoria Roszkowska

How practices can work with RIBA to support social mobility and diversity in future architects

Open-plan office with exposed services, workstations and collaborative high-table seating

Offices need to get back to nature

Neil Gillespie in a black zip-up with arms folded.

Guilty Pleasure: Neil Gillespie’s love of the down-at-heel London caff

Sectioned wooden bench within carefully landscaped garden with pond

Costings: street and landscape furniture

Historic stone prison blocks refurbished with contemporary dark-clad volumes and glazed link, forming courtyard with parking, clear sky, strong material contrast.

Michèle Woodger

Conference: Remaking architecture for contemporary use

Modern two-storey house with white walls and dark grey slate cladding, large floor-to-ceiling windows, a landscaped lawn, and an outdoor seating area within a spacious garden setting

In association with Cupa Pizarras

Clean geometries and a material palette centred around natural slate

View down a curved timber staircase with dark balustrades forming a sweeping arc. Below a geometric parquet floor leads to a wall of neatly arranged wine bottles. Warm lighting highlights the craftsmanship and symmetry of the interior space

In association with Bisca

Integrate this single element early for stronger architectural impact

natural-style playground featuring timber climbing frames, rope nets, and elevated walkways on a soft, coloured play surface, set within a park surrounded by trees

In association with Playequip

Creative recreation: when play becomes placemaking

Timber‑lined communal dining room with long table and chairs beneath a pitched roof, lit by daylight from large windows and glazed doors.

What do the RIBA National Awards tell us about the best architecture now?

modern brick apartment building with stacked balconies and metal railings, seen along a landscaped path with young trees and planting beds in the foreground

Stephen Taylor Architects’ Golf Links Estate social homes are classy and climate-resilient

Rear view of brick house with modern extension, large glass doors, garden planting and person walking along path

Flo Armitage-Hookes

Emil Eve Architects’ timber pergola casts ever-changing shadows at a north London home

Monolithic sand-coloured volumes articulated with recessed openings and projecting timber bay windows, set along a busy street with palm-lined pavement and layered urban scale

At Jeddah Culture Square, Urko Sánchez eschews the mega-project to fit with the traditional urban fabric

Circular brick room with timber roof, central rooflight, benches around walls, two people seated talking

Flo Armitage-Hookes

Tim Ronalds Architects’ Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration: a quirky delight worthy of its patron

Three people seated in landscaped garden beside modern brick extension with sawtooth roof and glass doors

Francesco Pierazzi’s sawtooth-roofed extension adds an unexpected sense of space

Landscaped park foreground frames a sculptural metro station pavilion with sweeping metallic canopy, emerging from planting beds and trees, integrating infrastructure within a richly planted public setting

Snøhetta’s Riyadh metro station is an architectural statement for a city entering a more mature phase

Rear view of modern house with black cladding and large windows behind a wall

Flo Armitage-Hookes

Paper House Project self-builds CLT house on constrained east London site

Aerial view of campus buildings including historic structure and new low-rise additions, surrounded by trees, fields, and distant mountains

Sandra Hofmeister

Anna Heringer’s rammed-earth Campus St Michael breaks new ground for German architecture

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Timber‑lined communal dining room with long table and chairs beneath a pitched roof, lit by daylight from large windows and glazed doors.

Timber‑lined communal dining room with long table and chairs beneath a pitched roof, lit by daylight from large windows and glazed doors.

What do the RIBA National Awards tell us about the best architecture now?

Contemporary Eagle House façade between historic buildings on an urban street

From eyesore to community asset: IF_DO’s revamp of Eagle House in Hastings

Historic stone cottages connected to a modern black-clad extension beside landscaped planting

Bindloss Dawes’ charred timber facade adds sharp contrast to an 18th-century farmhouse

Peter Ahrends

Obituary: Peter Ahrends (1933-2026), ABK Architects co-founder

Neil Gillespie in a black zip-up with arms folded.

Guilty Pleasure: Neil Gillespie’s love of the down-at-heel London caff

Eye Line drawing competition

watercolor-style architectural painting of a bridge seen from below, with large structural pillars rising from reflective water; cool blue and green tones, soft light, and misty shading emphasize depth and structure

23 Jun 2026 | Jan-Carlos Kucharek

Eye Line 2026: 1st place practitioner Erik Rokke

Lead architect, Stenungsund municipality, Gothenburg, Sweden

tall, skeletal tower-like structure rising above a vast cloud layer, casting a long shadow across the mist; the horizon is filled with dense clouds while soft light filters from above, creating a cold, distant, and surreal environment

23 Jun 2026 | Jan-Carlos Kucharek

Eye Line 2026: 1st place student Emmanouil Louvaris

MArch, University of Greenwich

23 Jun 2026 | Jan-Carlos Kucharek

Eye Line 2026: Manual techniques hold firm in this year's drawing competition

22 Jun 2026 | Jan-Carlos Kucharek

Eye Line 2026: 2nd place practitioner Paul Bedson

Project architect, S+SA Architects, Harrogate, North Yorkshire

Focus on

Three-panel glazed door within the red steel pergola adjoining the villa’s stone wall with garden beds in the foreground

House extensions

Building up into the roof, extending Victorian terraced houses, giving sixties homes the space they deserve, invention solutions to connect with the garden

How architecture is evolving alongside nature

Sculptural concrete interior with daylight admitted through one of the glazed rooftop wings. The central exhibit is a ship.

Architecture in the Gulf

Ambition and design in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates

AI and technology

Emerging technologies and using existing tech better: how architects are deploying AI and software to improve design and their practices

Explore Hilti hub

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Sunlit courtyard with gravel ground and scattered white metal chairs and tables, where people sit and walk; trees cast long shadows, and a historic stone building with scaffolding rises behind planted borders

Four times DSDHA designed fun into London public space projects

Sunlit garden with wildflower-style planting in reds and yellows, bordered by low stone edging and a paved path; a small brick pavilion stands to the left, while young and mature trees form a layered green backdrop

HTA Design’s Queen Elizabeth II garden foregrounds imaginative material reuse

Dusk view of multi-building scheme with colourful lanterns with benches at their base in foreground

How Fletcher Priest and Gustafson Porter + Bowman landscaped Oxford North

Designing for Safe Access on Façades webinar

23 June 2026, midday to 1.15pm

RIBAJ Spec Architecture for Housing and Residential Development webinar

RIBAJ Issue 5, 2026 Fun

Consume: new ways of buying

Nighttime city scene with illuminated vertical fountain towers in a landscaped park, set above a modern underground public space with people visible below

8 May 2026 | Jan-Carlos Kucharek

Welcome to ‘phygital’, where digital tech and physical realms integrate seamlessly

Redefining retail experiences

A close-up of a hand sorting through a pile of mixed secondhand clothing, showing various fabrics, colours, and patterns layered together.

30 Apr 2026 | Eleanor Young

What part can architects play in shaping our shifting retail landscape for the future?

Two people stand side by side in the middle of a quiet city street, with small shops and brick buildings lining the background.

5 May 2026 | Isabelle Priest

Friedrich Ludewig and Jan Kattein discuss the future of retail

Aerial view of an industrial estate with several large modern warehouse buildings featuring light grey roofs and façades, surrounded by tree‑lined roads, rail lines, and service yards, with a dense city skyline visible in the distance under a clear blue sky.

28 Apr 2026 | Eleanor Young

Can logistics warehouses ever deliver placemaking on a human scale?