As the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) pushes suburban densification as a means of unlocking land for 1.8 million new homes, Neil Deely from Metropolitan Workshop shares the practice’s proposals for reinventing the suburbs to facilitate changing lifestyles and demographic.
RAI Ireland: Dublin Social
Irish members of the Regenerative Architecture Index are invited to an evening of networking and socialising with collaborators, consultants and clients.
My Kind of Town: Piers Taylor
Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio explains how Sydney, a city that always feels as though it is making itself in the present tense, gave him the lenses through which he still views the world.
Still Standing: 15 Central Park West, New York, 2007
A near-verbatim recitation of the great New York apartments of yesteryear, Robert A.M. Stern’s ‘Limestone Jesus’ heralded a major architectural trend and delivered one of the most commercially successful condominium developments in the history of the city.
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Hamilton Hay Van Jonker
From their base in a refurbished victorian school in central Glasgow, Hamilton Hay Van Jonker speak to AT about their love of continuity and change, 'Speed Mentoring', and what it's like to work as 'one chapter in a building's long history'.
Introducing the March-April 2026 issue of Architecture Today
In this issue: Becca Thomas visits O'DonnellBrown's Millport Town Hall on the Isle of Cumbrae, Metropolitan Workshop's Neil Deely sets out a vision for the densification and reinvention of our suburbs, Still Standing: Robert A.M Stern's 15 Central Park West, We Made That's Tom Fox features in Reinventing Practice, Materials Library with dMFK, and Piers Taylor's Sydney in My Kind of Town. And much more!
Free photography workshops for RAI members
Photographer Timothy Soar explains why he is holding a series of free-to-attend workshops at different locations around the country for members of the Regenerative Architecture Index to hone their photography skills.
Planning regime and ‘armchair generals’ to blame for plummeting housing delivery
The recent Planning Update conference offered a stinging critique of the 'armchair generals' shaping planning policy and Sadiq Khan's misguided assumption that house-builders will deliver London's social housing programme.
Dispatches from Delft: Stella Forde
Architecture Today intern Izzie Tilston quizzes former AT intern Stella Forde about the trouble with architectural education, the power of networking and leaving architecture for a career in project management.
Hindsight: Photographing David Lea
Timothy Soar reflects on the experience of photographing Welsh architect David Lea at Ogoronry in Gwynedd, Wales, shortly before his death in 2022.
Meet the client: Chloe Oades, Mount Anvil
Head of design Chloe Oades outlines Mount Anvil’s resident-first approach to the regeneration of Friary Park in Acton, where a tenure-blind housing strategy, extensive community engagement and a partnership with Peabody are delivering over 1,300 homes alongside new green spaces, amenities and long-term biodiversity gains.
Reimagining Oxford Street
Darryl Chen, Partner, Urban Design Sector Lead at Hawkins\Brown and Julian Lewis, Director at East on pedestrianisation, public life and the long-term transformation of Oxford Street.
School of Specification – Specifying Colour
Dawn Scott, Senior Colour Designer & Inclusive Design Lead at Dulux, has produced a School of Specification module on specifying colour. Here she discusses colour theory and perception, as well as the benefits of using the Dulux colour notation system.
In conversation with Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban on his new concert hall in Switzerland which takes the form of a piggy bank, paper tube architecture, and why architects should stop talking about sustainability and start reducing waste.
Reflections: The Bauhaus
John Pardey on Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus in Dessau – a crystalline composition of glass, concrete and functionally ordered forms that transformed a new school of design into the built manifesto of a revolution in modern architecture, industry and education.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Jude Barber and Gerry Hogan from Collective Architecture
Collective Architecture's Jude Barber and Gerry Hogan on championing Scotland as a great place to invest and living by the mantra that a rising tide lifts all boats.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Duncan Cox from Cundall
Duncan Cox from Cundall discusses the role of the consultant in initiating important conversations and not walking away from clients because they don't act on good advice.
Smiljan Radić Clarke wins the 2026 Pritzker Prize
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has been awarded the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize for work that explores fragility, cultural memory and material experimentation, creating buildings that are at once elemental, enigmatic and deeply human.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Marion Baeli and Chris Jones of 10 Design
Marion Baeli and Chris Jones of 10 Design on what the UK government could learn from Oman – and from Sheffield – and the challenge of embedding a rigorous approach to sustainability across a global practice.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Piia Elo, Mayor of Turku
Piia Elo, Mayor of Turku, Finland discusses the city's plans to become neutral by 2029 and its competition for feasible ideas to strengthen the appeal of the Aura River waterfront.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Tanisha Raffiuddin
Podcaster and branding & communications guru Tanisha Raffiuddin of Concept Culture explains why she's on the hunt for anybody ready for the challenge of building neighbourhoods with a heartbeat.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Jack Pringle
Chair of the RIBA Board of Trustees Jack Pringle of Studio Pringle calls on MPs and Lords to save £25 billion of taxpayers' money by vacating the Palace of Westminster while refurbishment and renewal are under way and finding alternative premises in Vauxhall, the City or Canary Wharf.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Heather Macey
Heather Macey discusses the challenges involved in taking on the role of Principal at Makower Architects and shares out her ambitions for the practice as it embarks on a new chapter of its life.
UKREiiF 2026: speaking opportunities for RAI members
Architecture Today and Architects Declare are inviting expressions of interest from RAI members who are attending UKREiiF and would like to demonstrate the long-term value of regenerative design to the UK's largest gathering of construction professionals and clients.
Regenerative Architecture Index 2026: opportunities for members
A year-long programme of live events across the UK and Ireland offers members of the Regenerative Architecture Index 2026 opportunities to promote their work, network, socialise – and hone their photography skills.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Kimberly Tryba
landscape evangelist and Test of Time awards judge Kimberly Tryba of LILA Studio extols the transformational power of landscape projects that get stronger over time.
Dispatches from MIPIM: JJ Lorraine
JJ Lorraine on coming to MIPIM as a free agent having left the practice that he founded, planning the second act of his career, and being named after Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Jay Morton
Political mover and shaker and Bell Phillips Director Jay Morton discusses podcasting, campaigning and placemaking – and responds to rumours that she could be in the running to be President of the RIBA.