Architects have welcomed plans by the RIBA to strengthen the criteria for chartered practices to help root out inequality and promote diversity in the profession
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Nominations open for City of London Building of the Year
The City of London has invited nominations for the inaugural City of London Building of the Year award
RIBA survey shows rise in staff levels at UK practices
Staff levels at UK practices have risen by six per cent in a year according to RIBA’s latest Future Trends Workload Index.
New data shows architects waiting 11 days longer to be paid
Architects had to wait an average of 10 weeks to be paid in 2014 - an increase of 17 per cent on the last figures reported in 2008
Garden Bridge to be built ‘within 1,000 days’
Garden Bridge Trust issues bullish statement on construction timetable and announces Harrods fundraiser
Thousands of London council homes to be sold to fund Right to Buy
Four London boroughs have warned that more than 3,500 council homes will need to be sold to fund the government’s controversial Right-to-Buy extension
BCO 2015: ‘Too many buildings are designed to be only one thing’
Paul Sandilands, Luke Schuberth and Ben Adams on what they, and the 450 other delegates, learned at this year’s BCO Conference in Chicago - the birthplace of the modern office
Hellman files #168
A trawl through Hellman’s archives, in which we uncover gems that are as relevant now as they were then
SANAA wins contest for £250m Sydney Modern gallery
SANAA has won the high-profile contest to extend the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney
Competitions: editor’s pick 29.05.15
Regenerating Berlin’s Bauhaus Archive, upgrading Coventry Fire Station and an overhaul of the Jamsil Sports Complex in Seoul. The editor’s pick of this week’s top competitions