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Journal

Navigating the Future of Planning: An Interview with Sally Arnold of The Plannery

Sean Ronnie Hill: Sally, thank you for joining me today. As planning policies continue to evolve, backland developments remain a complex issue. What are the key planning considerations when approaching such sites? Sally Arnold: Thank you, Sean. Backland developments indeed present uni …

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Building for the Future: Choosing the Right Standards

One of the most consequential decisions on any new build project gets made before a single drawing is produced. Which performance standard are you designing to, and why?

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What If Everything You Thought About Low-Energy Homes Was Wrong?

At RISE, we don’t just design buildings. We design beginnings - to a slower life, a warmer space, a clearer purpose.

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The Digital Age Has a Dirty Secret. It’s Time to Clean It Up.

Data runs the world. Every click, every stream, every AI prompt - behind it all sits a data centre, humming away, burning through energy, keeping the internet alive. But here’s the catch: data centres are massive energy guzzlers. They’re responsible for around 1% of global electricity …

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The 1930s Semi: A Quiet Powerhouse of British Architecture

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You’ve seen them. Lining the quiet streets of London’s outer zones, with their pitched roofs, proud bays, and an air of quiet endurance. The 1930s semi-detached home isn’t flashy. It doesn’t shout. But give it a little attention, and it speaks volumes.

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Why Choose a Chartered Architect?

Architect and Director Sean Ronnie Hill showing the Virtual Reality goggles to a client of their new build sustainable home

Anyone can call themselves a designer, and plenty of people can produce a set of drawings. "Architect", though, is a protected title in the UK: it can only be used by someone registered with the Architects Registration Board, which means accredited training, examined competence and a …

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Herbert Paradise: A Home That Leads with Purpose

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At RISE Design Studio, we believe homes should be more than shelter. They should inspire. They should nurture. And they should quietly - but powerfully - lead the way to a better future.

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INDOI ghar está en camino: Construyendo un hogar para la artesanía, la cultura y la comunidad en Poblenou

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Poblenou está cambiando. Una vez más.

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Not Quite Passivhaus? Not Quite Enough.

View of a sustainable timber-clad extension to a traditional stone cottage, demonstrating certified Passivhaus principles with large triple-glazed windows, airtight detailing, and low-energy design in a rural English setting.

☉ The Illusion of Almost In today’s built environment, there’s a growing trend to dress up underperformance. Phrases like “inspired by Passivhaus” or “Passivhaus principles applied” may sound like progress. But they are often just that – sound. Hollow echoes of a standard that only de …

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Old bones, new life: retrofitting a Bathurst Mews house to EnerPHit

Cutaway visualisation of a three-storey pink-brick mews house showing every level: a basement gym and study, a timber-floored living room and kitchen, a bedroom and pink bathroom above, a planted roof terrace, a rooflight and solar panel on the pitched roof, and a winding timber stair. RISE Design Studio.

Behind the grand stuccoed avenues of Bayswater sits one of London's quieter corners: Bathurst Mews. A cobbled street once home to horses and hay carts, it is now a pocket of heritage houses where ivy climbs the brick and life goes on behind pastel-painted doors.

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