RIBA Journal

At the Grade II-listed Cowley Manor hotel, De Matos Ryan Architects' new pavilion wraps a timber frame in Cotswold stone – reinterpreting the main house's Italianate frontage https://ow.ly/5tXC50VpMKv

A Celebration of Italian Form, Food & Future 🎉   What an incredible evening at the London ICG Gallery. Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday and made the event so special. We came together to celebrate the finest elements of Italian culture, stunning architecture, design and delicious Italian food. Thank you goes to our fantastic speakers: 🎤 Chiara Cola – Foundation Design Studio Lead & Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University 🎤 Giacomo Bertoni – UK Head of Specification, Iris Ceramica Group 🎤 Paola Cattarin – Director, Zaha Hadid Architects for 🎤 jan-carlos kucharek – Deputy Editor, RIBAJ   This event was produced in partnership with Iris Ceramica Group   #RIBAJ #RIBA #IrisCeramicaGroup #Design #Innovation

OPPORTUNITY: Design and deliver a float that represents LGBTQIA+ architects past and present and their contribution to the built environment #ribajopportunities #RJintelligence #PrideInLondon #Competitions #ArchitectureContracts https://ow.ly/azXH50VpC0J

Judgement and quality are definitive skills that set architects apart from AI, and can close the gap between profit and public good, argues Muyiwa Oki PRIBA https://ow.ly/zCwA50VnXAw

🚇 Gare de Villejuif-Gustave Roussy, where lines 14 and 15 of the new Paris orbital metro intersect, is a dramatic civil engineering feat by Dominique Perrault Architecture: https://ow.ly/Lij650VoYVz

Costed: Nicola Sharkey, UK insights and research lead at Gleeds, advises on 2025 UK product costs for envelope and cladding materials: https://ow.ly/KuLS50Vogft

🏆 COMPETITION TIME: Can you create an object, installation, building or urban intervention that plays on the idea of scale, to create wonder, drama – or even shock? https://ow.ly/nNmO50VoIGf Using West Fraser Europe SterlingOSB Zero board as your base material, we want to see you putting your imagination and ingenuity to use, to create your own physical meditation on the nature of scale. It might be a model, sculpture, piece of furniture, mise-en-scene, a building, a folly – or even a monument! First prize of £2,500; three Commended prizes of £500 – entries open until 23 June 2025.

📢 Don't miss the RIBAJ/Future Architects Film Competition 2025 Are you a student or early career professional? Have you got something to share with the profession and beyond? If so, you’re in luck. We are giving you the chance to enter a short-film competition run in collaboration with RIBA Future Architects, a community established to inform and inspire emerging architects. ⌛ Deadline: Monday, 7 April at 2pm 👉 Enter today: https://lnkd.in/gyS3t7NG #Futurearchitects #RIBAJ #competition

OPPORTUNITY: Create a new permanent nature gallery exhibition for young visitors; this South Kensington museum is looking for 2D and 3D lead designers #ribajopportunities #RJintelligence #ArchitectureContracts #Competitions https://ow.ly/ZnhW50Vo034

🧱 Rowan Court, Satish Jassal Architects' scheme of red-brick homes for Haringey Council, is a shrewd bit of placemaking that creates a rich living environment on an unloved plot https://ow.ly/pVtj50VncJq