Materials library: Alison Brooks Architects
Materials library: Alison Brooks Architects

Alison Brooks and Ruben Ramos discuss the way the practice’s approach to materiality is informed by socio-cultural factors, environmental concerns, and a desire to reconnect with nature.

Osaka Expo

WOO architects and ES Global have unveiled their design for the UK pavilion which opened this week at the 2025 Osaka Expo in Japan.

Learning from the past

Michelmersh explores the rising popularity of Roman bricks in contemporary architecture.

One month to go until FOOTPRINT+ 2025

Watch: Footprint founders Tim Pyne and Emily Day talk to AT Editor Isabel Allen about striking a balance between producing an influential conference and throwing the best party in town.

Why competence matters

Siderise explores the importance of building competency in passive fire safety and acoustics, and introduces its new online learning platform.

School of Specification — Modules available

Blenheim Grove

It’s taken Unboxed Homes more than a decade to deliver a short terrace of custom-build homes in Peckham, south London. Why did it take so long? And was it worth the wait?

Mendel Square

In the Czech city of Brno, CHYBIK+KRISTOF have collaborated with dílna to design a new public square that will evolve in 30 years’ time to reveal a new public park that’s been growing beneath.

Meet the client: Lloyd Lee, Yoo Capital

Lloyd Lee, Managing Partner at Yoo Capital discusses the company’s investment in Olympia and Camden, reflecting a bold belief in London’s enduring global appeal – and what makes a successful architect-client relationship for him.

Architecture Today March-April 2025

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My Kind of Town: Tom Lacey

Tom Lacey explains how London's Olympic Park has evolved into a thriving neighbourhood, but kept the wild, unpolished spaces that are a respite from city life.

AD agenda: co-design and just spaces for people

Tom Greenall introduces DSDHA's Co-Design website and explains how achieving meaningful participation in co-design can serve as a transformative tool to address the complex, intersecting crises shaping our built environment.

Standing the test of time

Isabel Allen charts the rise and re-rise of Marine Court – a 1930s behemoth on the South Coast that is enjoying a new lease of life under the custodianship of its current residents and owners.

Reinventing practice

Courtyard Houses

Roz Barr Architects has replaced a 1960s house in Long Ditton, Surrey with two homes for three generations living under one roof. Nelly Greig enjoys an elegant reinterpretation of suburban family life.

Measuring Mass Timber

A collaborative research project led by dRMM sets out the environmental and quality-of-life benefits of timber construction, and provides an open-source tool to measure building performance, including life cycle analysis and post occupancy evaluation.

Dispatches from Uzbekistan: Hakan Agca

AT talks to Hakan Agca, founder and managing director of Cross Works in London, a practice that recently won a competition to design a new city of two million people across 25,000 hectares next to Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent.

Tonkin Liu

Tonkin Liu’s studio is shaped by nature. From watching light change over the seasons to collecting seeds on their travels, Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu share how reconnecting with the rhythms of the natural world is key to designing for the long term.

School of Specification – Security through laminated glass

Allan Gibson, AIS Global Product/Marketing Segment Manager at Kuraray Europe, has produced a School of Specification module exploring security using laminated glass. Here, he considers the main security threats for glazing and what can be done to mitigate them.

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Introducing the March-April 2025 issue of Architecture Today

In this issue: Unboxed Homes’ Blenheim Grove in Peckham, Keith Williams Architects’ De Valera Library and Súil Gallery in Ireland, Materials library with Alison Brooks Architects, Roz Barr Architects’ Courtyard Houses in Surrey, dRMM on the benefits of mass timber, and more.

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Striking the right note

Backlit HIMACS solid surface panels articulate the eye-catching ‘Sounds of Hayes’ underpass in west London.

Project Orange

From regenerative design to material rationing, Christopher Ash and James Soane from Project Orange explore the urgent need for a paradigm shift in how we build, renovate, and engage with communities.

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning

London’s National Gallery has opened its doors to a newly refurbished education centre designed by Lawson Ward Studio with heritage support from Purcell.

Family business

Kate Quinlan, director at McLean Quinlan talks to AT about the virtues of having a family-run practice, why they moved the office to Winchester, and two new projects on the North Downs and in the US.

Iorram Cottage

Iorram Cottage by Baillie Baillie strikes a sensitive balance between local Highland vernacular and regenerative building methods.

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