What’s so good about council houses?
Devolution, it seems, can bring decisions closer to people but it can also expose how thin local capacity really is.
Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art: Out of the Ashes?
This requires an exceptional architectural team, emphasising talent and creativity, in the most important commission in Scotland and probably the UK.
THE RIBA PRESIDENT 2026 IS….
I will be organising an online get-together, hosting some debates later in the year, and also arranging a face-to-face gathering over drinks
Get Out of the Kitchen
If the world is getting warmer it would be churlish, they say, not to pay more to be part the global solution.
Three Questions
Here are my answers to three questions from the Future Architecture Front, in advance of the RIBA Presidential campaign results.
List, demolish & retrofit… the RIBA Presidential campaign
Austin Williams, candidate to be President of the RIBA 2026 answers questions about his top priorities and how he would address them
Can Pay, Won’t Pay
These are the normalisers of the crimewave. These are the people who think vandalism is OK… that imagine that civil disobedience trumps the democratic process.
On the Regulation of the function of Architects
… a bunch of “creatives” who think that the world owes them a living.
Paradise Found?
The vision for the new Forest City 1 is undeniably bold, ambitious… and a much-needed response to the demand for “more” and “better”.
High noon for high drama
When you have to concentrate rather than allowing yourself to be carried away by the magic of theatre, then something isn’t working.
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