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RIBA responds to the announcement by Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government that there will be a consultation to ban the use of combustible cladding on high rise buildings

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Thursday 17 May) given an initial response to the publication of Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety.

RIBA North East members showcase their diversity, skills, interest and backgrounds, highlighting how it has impacted on their careers within architecture.

Disappear Here explores the lineage of perspective across centuries and technologies. With quotations from Sam Jacob, we provide an introduction to the exhibition and the theme of perspective - where it originated and what the future may hold.

RIBA South West Award winners 2018 announced from a shortlist of 13 projects and 35 overall entries for the region.

The 2018 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship has been awarded to Steven Hutt from the University of Greenwich for his proposal ‘East of Eden’ which will explore nature in eastern mega-cities.

14 housing schemes, 8 schools, a city farm (Waterloo Community Farm) and refurbished public house (The Sekforde) are among the 61 buildings to receive RIBA London Awards 2018 from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

In May 2017 and in March 2018 a student survey was sent to accredited schools in the United Kingdom on behalf of the RIBA. Just over 1,200 students completed the survey in 2017 and over 900 in 2018 pointing to the scale of the issue and the interest that students have in their mental wellbeing.

The prospects for architects’ workloads dipped in March, for the first time in 2018, according to the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Future Trends Workload Index which fell to +6, down from +17 in February.

RIBA demands the end of Desktop Studies for Fire Safety ahead of Hackitt Review