Opening Regenerative Design 2026, Elora Hardy, founder of IBUKU, argues that regenerative practice begins by leaning to unlearn, and question the assumptions designers have inherited. Watch her keynote speech here.
The Ribbon
Orms’ brick-clad mixed-use building on the corner of Oxford Street and Wells Street draws on the architectural and material character of Fitzrovia to deliver offices, retail and a new basement venue behind a richly articulated façade.
A conceptual artist, a concert pianist and an engineer
Barnaby Steel of experiential art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast and concert pianist Sarah Nicolls will join engineer Neil Thomas of Atelier One at Tree Stories (and some grass), a Regenerative Design 2026 event on the evening of Wednesday October 21st.
Paradigm shift: Kelly Alvarez Doran on changing the rules at RD26
Kelly Alvarez Doran, Co-Founder of Ha/f Climate Design, focused on the regulatory and economic systems that determine what gets built, arguing that carbon and cost are often driven by the same underlying decisions. Watch Kelly's talk in full here.
Paradigm shift: Amin Taha on using materials intelligently at RD26
Amin Taha, Founder and Director of Groupwork, sets out a radical approach to new construction: start with a timber building, then go through and assess each component, only substituting materials out where strictly necessary. Listen to Amin's talk in full here.
Paradigm shift: Duncan Baker-Brown on reuse before extraction at RD26
Duncan Baker-Brown, Founder and Director of Baker-Brown Studio, focussed on extraction and the use of manufactured products and natural building materials, arguing that mass extraction for bio-based materials can be just as harmful to the planet. There is another approach. Find out more by watching Duncan's talk in full here.
Paradigm shift: Marian Garfield on moving from ambition to industrial reality at RD26
Marian Garfield, Director of Sustainability at Heidelberg Materials UK, offers the manufacturers perspective to the production of one of the industries most carbon-intensive materials, highlighting the rapid development and growth of carbon capture, and emphasising the importance of synced up industries. Watch Marian's talk in full here.
Paradigm shift: Ivan Jovanovic on working with natural systems at RD26
Ivan Jovanovic, Director of Sustainability and Environmental Design at Atelier Ten, suggests we must learn to operate within contemporary systems, understand their structure, and change them from within. Watch Ivan's talk in full here.
Designing for neuroinclusion: using colour to support different sensory needs
Dulux Trade’s Dawn Scott, in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, explores how colour, contrast and sensory choice can help architects create more comfortable, legible and inclusive environments.
Kicking off Regenerative Design 2026
Architecture Today has launched Regenerative Design 2026, a month-long programme of exhibitions and events at the Building Centre in central London.
Regenerative Architecture Index 2026: front-runners announced
The front-runners in this year's Regenerative Architecture Index were announced on Thursday 1st October at the launch party for Regenerative Design 2026.
Introducing the September-October 2026 issue of Architecture Today
In this issue: The Regenerative Architecture Index 2026 is unveiled; Collective Architecture's Gerry Hogan and Studio Saar on being good ancestors; Ian Poole from Elliott Wood and Neil Thomas from Atelier One on co-evolving with nature, Birds Portchmouth Russum and DSDHA's Tom Greenall and Nicole Abernethy on creating just spaces for people; and Stephen O'Malley on why Dublin is his kind of town.
Prague Fire Rescue Service
Architektura has completed a new headquarters for Prague’s Fire Rescue Service, combining robust civic infrastructure with a slender red tower that anchors the organisation’s Holešovice campus.
Design Museum Gent
Carmody Groarke, ATAMA and RE-ST have skilfully reworked Design Museum Gent, adding a five-storey wing that completes its historic courtyard and opens the institution more directly to the city.
Learning from what works
AHMM Associate Director and Head of Sustainability Craig Robertson talks to AT about supporting the Regenerative Design 2026 Case Studies exhibition, sharing knowledge across the profession, and the practice’s journey towards regenerative design.
AT CPD Webinar: Sustainable Roofing Initiatives
Join us on Wednesday 21st October at 10am to learn with Sika how green, blue, solar and BioSolar roof systems can support biodiversity, rainwater management and renewable energy generation, while meeting key design, maintenance and fire safety requirements.
Your best acoustic work is sitting in a PDF
Energy performance gets a certificate. Acoustic performance gets a report in a project folder. A new independent standard, already being used by the likes of dMFK and Tyréns Hilson Moran, aims to change that, starting with buildings that are already finished.
More than 100 regenerative case studies to go on show at RD26
At Regenerative Design 2026 you can see a major free exhibition bringing together work from more than 100 practices in this year’s Regenerative Architecture Index.
Designing as nature
Ahead of his keynote talk for Regenerative Design 2026, Michael Pawlyn, founder of Exploration Architecture, explores how rethinking our relationship with nature could help unlock the systemic change needed for regenerative design.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Mike Russum
For Mike Russum of Birds Portchmouth Russum, regeneration starts with joy: bringing together climate, water, planting and biomimicry to create adaptable places that work more like healthy ecosystems than isolated buildings.
Passive fire protection
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Promat, exploring how architects, engineers, manufacturers and legal specialists are addressing the challenges of integrating passive fire protection into retrofit, renovation and change-of-use projects.
Ask the expert: Fenestration specification and balancing Part L and Part O
Tim James, National Specification Manager at VEKA, answers readers’ questions on balancing thermal performance and overheating when specifying windows and doors under Part L and Part O of the Building Regulations.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
Gerry Hogan
Gerry Hogan of Collective Architecture asks what it means to be a steward rather than an owner, embedding social and environmental responsibility in the practice’s legal structure, succession and everyday culture.
Neil Thomas
Bamboo: vegetable carbon fibre, climate solution and a British crop. Neil Thomas of Atelier One asks what we can learn from nature’s 400-million-year head start in engineering.
Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has completed the University of Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, creating a new civic gateway that brings teaching, research and public life together beside Temple Meads station.
Ian Poole
What can a soap film teach us about concrete construction? Ian Poole of Elliott Wood discusses biomimicry, material reuse in a push to make structural engineering less extractive and more regenerative.
Free RD26 seminar: Specifying natural and sustainable construction materials
BakerBrown Studio, Collective Works, Groupwork, Webb Yates, UKGBC and Rowland Keable of Rammed Earth join the line-up at a seminar on whole life carbon and adaptive reuse delivered in partnership with HG Matthews on the morning of Tuesday 20th October as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent
Studio KO has transformed a 1912 tram depot and diesel station in Old Tashkent into Uzbekistan’s first permanent institution for contemporary art, retaining the character of the industrial complex while introducing new galleries, public spaces and facilities for research and cultural exchange.