List, demolish & retrofit… the RIBA Presidential campaign
Austin Williams, candidate for RIBA President 2026 answers questions about his top priorities to the RIBA Journal, how he would address them, and which buildings he would list, demolish and retrofit Q: What are your top three priorities? 1) If we want a truly creative industry, then we need to develop a generation with open-minded agency; one that goes beyond groupthink. The RIBA needs to encourage universities to return to the...
Welsh Labour: The End of an Error
Welsh Labour, enabled by Plaid Cymru, has delivered the lowest educational outcomes… A fifth of primary school leavers are functionally illiterate.
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.
Chagossians Fight Back
Chagossians are finding new ways to fight back against the Government’s £35bn sovereignty deal with Mauritius
On the Regulation of the function of Architects
… a bunch of “creatives” who think that the world owes them a living.
Mr Starmer goes to Beijing
The UK should be more confident. China’s own creativity is hampered by a state that doesn’t appreciate autonomy and independence of its citizens.
Review: What’s Wrong With Benny Hill?
Anthony Bugess, the author of The Clockwork Orange described him as “a comic genius steeped in the British music hall tradition”
Driving Out Common Sense
36% of pedestrians failed to look properly and 18% were “careless, reckless or in a hurry”.
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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