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.
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.
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.
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.
DSDHA
From Broadgate to the studio garden and experimental earth construction, Tom Greenall and Nicole Abernethy of DSDHA explore how testing ideas at different scales can turn landscape, biodiversity and material innovation into everyday practice.
Evermore
Nimtim architects has refurbished and extended a Suffolk bungalow, creating an accessible and adaptable home designed around the long-term needs of its owners.
How Should We Innovate? – speakers announced
RIBA London Ethical Practice Special Interest Group to host a seminar entitled 'How Should We Innovate?' on the afternoon of Wednesday 7th October at the Building Centre in central London as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Dispatches: Cooke Fawcett
Oliver Cooke and Francis Fawcett, founders of Cooke Fawcett, discuss leaving Herzog & de Meuron, building a practice from scratch, and their evolving approach to heritage, retrofit and cultural projects.
RDA Architects
Richard Dudzicki tells AT how cinema, Passivhaus principles and London’s constraints shape a practice focused on retaining what exists, using fewer resources and finding inventive ways to make lasting homes.
Designing workplaces for people and planet
Watch the AT Workplace webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics, exploring how retrofit, reuse, adaptability, acoustic comfort and long-term thinking are shaping workplaces that work better for people and the planet.
Free RD26 seminar: Whole life carbon and adaptive reuse
Max Fordham, HLM Architects, Grimshaw, Elliott Wood, PDP and Esther Robinson Wild join the line-up at a seminar on whole life carbon and adaptive reuse that takes place on the morning of Thursday 15th October as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Elora Hardy to give opening talk at Regenerative Design 2026
TED Talk speaker, founder of radical design studio IBUKU and the designer behind some of the most extraordinary structures in the world, will kick off the events programme at Regenerative Design 2026 with a keynote talk on the morning of Monday 5th October.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Corinna Dean
Corinna Dean of ARCA considers how architecture can foster care for human and non-human life, drawing on collaborative projects from floating reed beds on the River Lea to bio-receptive bricks that expose the environmental costs of making.
Architects Declare’s Next Gen Ambassadors present: Regenerative Design – What Now?
What does it look like when a generation of architects witness their profession fundamentally change over the course of their training – and, more importantly, what happens when we stop waiting for the industry to catch up and start changing it ourselves?
4 Arbour Street, Copper Square
shedkm’s 14-storey office building at Brent Cross Town combines a precast concrete frame with cross-laminated timber floors to reduce embodied carbon while providing flexible workspace alongside the new Brent Cross West station.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
Paul Ruff
Paul Ruff reflects on a career shaped by resourcefulness, reinvention and a growing conviction that architecture must take responsibility for its impact.
Navigating the gateway process
Adam Eaton, Director at Trigon Fire Safety, and Jayne Hall, Associate at Hunters, have produced a School of Specification module on navigating the Gateway process. Here, they explore architects’ responsibilities, Gateway 2 submissions, change control and demonstrating compliance at Gateway 3.
Office S&M
From their annual 'Plants and Pints' to a house designed for trees and cats, Office S&M are making regenerative design fun, creative, and an intuitive characteristic of contemporary practise.
Jihlava Municipal Arena
CHYBÍK + KRIŠTOF’s new sports and culture venue in Jihlava combines a 5,650-seat arena with new public spaces, landscape and supporting facilities designed to extend the life of the Czech city centre.
Dulux announces Soulful Sage™ as its colour of the year
At a School of Specification webinar, Dulux has named Soulful Sage™ its Colour of the Year for 2027. Dawn Scott, Dulux Trade Senior Colour Designer at AkzoNobel explains how this soft, silvery green sits at the heart of three carefully developed colour palettes.
Daniel Libeskind wins 2026 Praemium Imperiale Award
Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind wins the Architecture category of the Praemium Imperiale Awards – the 'Nobel Prize of the Arts', established to fulfil the wish of the late Prince Takamatsu of Japan "to contribute to the enhancement and promotion of the cultures and arts of the world."