13 practices, organisations and individuals have made it through to the shortlist stage for the annual activism prize – supported by Heatherwick Studio.

2024 will be a tough year and marketing budgets may be under scrutiny. So, what are the best ways to get your practice noticed and what should you prepare for?‍

This year’s Archiboo Awards party will take place at the Shoreditch Arts Club, a private members club launched, designed and owned by Buckley Grey Yeoman. It joins a growing list of architects who are investing in London’s ever-evolving restaurant, club and café scene.

While architects’ attention has focused on AI’s image-making tools ChatGPT’s ability to answer questions, tell stories, process data and deal with reams of technical information will have a much greater impact on the profession, architects believe

The Activism Award rewards a practice, individual or organisation whose work is making a differnce on critical issues. Here’s eight notable architect activists past and present.

A competition that highlights the critical role played by engineers in retrofit and low carbon development, has been won by Simple Works.

Developer HUB has selected seven structural engineering practices to pitch ideas for repurposing commercial buildings to provide homes using low-carbon solutions.

Judges praised the winning pitch that explored the idea of sourcing building materials from within a 50-mile radius to reduce the embodied carbon of a neighbourhood.

Seven architects have been shortlisted to pitch ideas for the UK's first net zero neighbourhood promoted by the environmental engineering firm, Max Fordham. Here, the selected architects tell us why they want to pitch

Winning the Architect Pitch in 2021 was an opportunity for Office S&M to work for a client who shares its aspirations for the workplace that has culminated in a wellbeing fit out guide for a new office campus in Manchester

Like most architects, Marco believed the best way of bringing about change is through building which is what we were going to thrash out over lunch. Marco sadly died this summer but I think he would have been surprised (and pleased) to see more practices taking an activist stance and using their knowledge to help solve some of society’s big knotty problem such as homelessness.

Just as we launched this year’s Archiboo Awards Instagram changed its algorithm prioritising entertaining short-form videos over photos. For practices, as for many other creatives who were winning work via the platform, this posed a question. ‍