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Every office wants to feel like Soho House

Every office wants to feel like Soho House

Mike Stiff co-founded London-based practice Stiff + Trevillion in the early 1980s. He is a judge for the Best Consultants category...

Mike Stiff co-founded London-based practice Stiff + Trevillion in the early 1980s. He is a judge for the Best Consultants category...

You’re looking for eddies in people’s life stories

You’re looking for eddies in people’s life stories

Grant Gibson is a journalist and a former editor of Blueprint, RIBA Journal and Crafts magazine. He launched his podcast Material Matters in 2018, which won the Best Podcast category in 2020. He is a judge for the category this year...

Grant Gibson is a journalist and a former editor of Blueprint, RIBA Journal and Crafts magazine. He launched his podcast Material Matters in 2018, which won the Best Podcast category in 2020. He is a judge for the category this year...

My method for winning new business was always lunches

My method for winning new business was always lunches

Joy Nazzari on the importance of lunch and why the property industry has to rewrite its story...

Joy Nazzari on the importance of lunch and why the property industry has to rewrite its story...

How social media drives new business

How social media drives new business

With social media it’s all about creating content and being consistent so there’s content on a weekly basis. The way we use Instagram is as a window into our practice – we concentrate on showing the process behind the projects. Every Thursday people have to upload at least two images...

With social media it’s all about creating content and being consistent so there’s content on a weekly basis. The way we use Instagram is as a window into our practice – we concentrate on showing the process behind the projects. Every Thursday people have to upload at least two images...

Seven chosen for the Architect Pitch

Seven chosen for the Architect Pitch

Seven architects have been shortlisted to pitch ideas for the next generation of workplace design that reflects the shift to hybrid working post-Covid....

Seven architects have been shortlisted to pitch ideas for the next generation of workplace design that reflects the shift to hybrid working post-Covid....

What should the office look like when we go back to work?

What should the office look like when we go back to work?

The last year has been a chance to rethink the workplace into a vastly better version of what it was before Covid-19, says General Project’s development associate Ben Cross...

The last year has been a chance to rethink the workplace into a vastly better version of what it was before Covid-19, says General Project’s development associate Ben Cross...

Newsletters – keep it short and keep it punchy

Newsletters – keep it short and keep it punchy

This seemingly archaic form of communication in a world dominated by fast-paced social media platforms still has the ability to cut through the noise and help support the development of business relationships...

This seemingly archaic form of communication in a world dominated by fast-paced social media platforms still has the ability to cut through the noise and help support the development of business relationships...

Writing about your ideas – ten rules to keep it simple

Writing about your ideas – ten rules to keep it simple

But then I spotted an article in Property Week that asked eight practices to ‘rethink’ a 80,000 sq ft department store, and gave each around 400 words to explain their ideas...

But then I spotted an article in Property Week that asked eight practices to ‘rethink’ a 80,000 sq ft department store, and gave each around 400 words to explain their ideas...

Creative ways to write about your practice

Creative ways to write about your practice

This is a new series about writing for the web. It’s a vast subject so I’m going to break it down, beginning with how to write that short piece of blurb or slogan that practices usually bury in the About section...

This is a new series about writing for the web. It’s a vast subject so I’m going to break it down, beginning with how to write that short piece of blurb or slogan that practices usually bury in the About section...

Architects embrace power of film

Architects embrace power of film

Last week I wrote about ‘micro videos’. The question I posed is should practices be putting more time and effort into these teaser videos rather than longer, expensively produced ones...

Last week I wrote about ‘micro videos’. The question I posed is should practices be putting more time and effort into these teaser videos rather than longer, expensively produced ones...

Films about architecture tend to be highly produced and expensive. Why not ditch them for a gif?

Films about architecture tend to be highly produced and expensive. Why not ditch them for a gif?

Photographer Edmund Sumner was surprised when his recent LinkedIn post about his micro videos or ‘archygifs’ provoked such an instant reaction.

Photographer Edmund Sumner was surprised when his recent LinkedIn post about his micro videos or ‘archygifs’ provoked such an instant reaction.

February 21, 2021

February 21, 2021

I joined Clubhouse – so should you

I joined Clubhouse – so should you

An app that has no pictures is unlikely to appeal to architects. But such is the hype surrounding Clubhouse I thought I’d check it out...

An app that has no pictures is unlikely to appeal to architects. But such is the hype surrounding Clubhouse I thought I’d check it out...

Activism Award longlist announced

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

January 24, 2024

The Year Ahead: From AI to Activism

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?‍

January 11, 2024

Service, please!

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.

December 13, 2023

AI will replace the 'grunt work' but it won't replace us, say architects

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

November 29, 2023

Eight activist architects

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.

Simple Works win first Engineer Pitch

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

Seven chosen for Engineer Pitch

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

New Makers Bureau wins the Architect Pitch

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.

February 22, 2023

Seven chosen for Architect Pitch with Max Fordham

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

January 26, 2023

Hugh McEwen - We were keen to show how we could re-think the office and move further into this sector

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

December 2, 2022

Is there a resurgence of young architects willing to be identified with a cause?

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.

November 16, 2022

‍The Archiboo Awards – takeaways from the winners. ‍

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. ‍

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