We recently took our annual trip into the Docklands to visit Futurebuild and were reminded of how alien it is.

The Building Safety Act is long overdue and welcome shake up of the industry. However, how does this work in the day-to-day of a collaborative approach to practice?

We are a few months on from the start of New-works and it has been an exciting journey. Our approach to design has not changed from the work we did as TDO, but the way we are proposing to do it has. There are some really interesting questions coming from that. Here is an FAQ.

We see inherent problems with how our profession goes about being architects, which is separate from the architecture (although we argue if you improve the former you also improve the latter). New-works was founded to explore how we might address this, and there was a bit of a leap of faith involved.

The New-works logotype was designed by Richard Ardagh Studio. His work designing our logo encapsulates the strength we see in specialism and collaboration.

Artificial Intelligence will change how architects work. The question is how it will do that and how we should be responding.

Maybe New-works doesn’t actually propose anything all that new.

Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) does not have the best reputation. The front cover of Offsite magazine alone is usually enough to make you want to give up being an architect. 

The architectural corner of the construction industry needs to change. Here’s what we think needs to happen.