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.
Ask the expert: Passive fire protection
Darren Brennan, Specification Director at Siderise, answers readers’ questions on passive fire protection for the building envelope.
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.
Collaborative façade design: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building by SRA Architects
Project leaders from SRA Architects, britplas, and Schüco discuss the collaborative processes and technical challenges behind the façade of the IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building in Oxford with AT’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw.
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.
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.
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.
Still standing: Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, 1921
Hollyhock House lived up to Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of a building “comfortable to live in well, with true pride in itself” but was beset by disagreements with his mercurial client.
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.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
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.
Schüco Excellence Awards 2025 – Deadline extended
The deadline for entries to the 2025 Schüco Excellence Awards, for buildings that feature Schüco facades, window and door systems has been extended to 24 April.
The way forward for sustainable fibre cement facades
EQUITONE explores the environmental credentials of its high-performance C2C Certified® fibre cement cladding.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
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.
SAVE’s Buildings at Risk Register now open to the public
SAVE Britain’s Heritage has marked its 50th anniversary with the launch of a new website, refreshed graphic identity, and — most significantly — free public access to its Buildings at Risk register for the first time.
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.
