Posted by: @jane It's new development you have to worry about. A lot of questions come to mind when thinking about the materials used in constructions that my be efficient, light-weight, higher stre...

Thanks archiZen, I had already read this and this is what I think…. As if the education of architecture students wasn't problematic already then they want to reduce the learning needed even more. I...

Muyiwa Oki, very young and not very experienced, how will he be ‘changing’ the RIBA? I worry about the lack of experience as an architect, who has been working for others so has not had to deal with ...

Posted by: @periwinkle The idea is to advise the client to have them re-done instead of buying new. Is the client replacing the chairs with something similar? If that is the case the quality of the...

There is nowhere on the ARB website that says that you cannot use the logo for signboards. Not sure why it isn’t advertised, but this could be the ‘low profile’ that the arb have had as just being ...

I would understand refusing a planning application on its merits but to do so because it doesn’t fit in with the grade II listed building next door says nothing about sustainability or reducing carbon...

Good poll starter @archiZen. Using existing building stock (and there seems to be quite a lot), can be a good way to minimise demolition and building waste. A building can be retrofitted to curre...

This is new, I haven’t seen any of these boards around. I can’t find anything about signboards on the ARB website, so not sure if they do them. I would have thought that if this was ‘a common thing...

There is an appeal to open plan kitchens, it all depends on the space that you have, if you are designing an apartment building the open plan kitchen/dining/lounge works better because instead of 2-3 ...