Assemble has transformed a pair of former United Dairies warehouses on the Becontree Estate in Dagenham into a flexible community hub for LifeLine Church and Community Resources.
Per Kirkeby: making mystery and magic out of ordinary brick
Publisher Torsten Bløndal and architecture professor Thomas Bo Jensen have joined forces to produce a compendium of the paintings, sculptures and buildings of Danish artist, poet, sculptor and film maker Per Kirkeby. John Pardey enjoys a lyrical tour through an eclectic portfolio rooted in love for the humble brick.
Moon House
Office S&M has turned a dark Victorian townhouse in Kensington into a light-filled home for two art collectors. A three-storey rear extension, bespoke architectural interventions and commissioned artworks combine to create a house that functions equally as a family home and a carefully curated gallery.
Stefano Boeri’s Parliament of Living Species
Stefano Boeri’s Parliament of Living Species transforms Milan’s council chamber into a forum where non-human life is given a political voice, challenging conventional approaches to urban planning by asking how cities might be designed if animals, insects and ecosystems were represented alongside people.
Free photography workshop at Art Deco Marine Court and architectural walking tour of Burton’s St Leonard’s for RAI members
RAI members are invited to join Timothy Soar's free-to-attend photography workshop at one of the UK's most iconic Art Deco seaside buildings – and enjoy a bespoke walking tour of the architectural highlights of St Leonard's-on-Sea.
Reflections: Säynätsalo Town Hall
John Pardey revisits Alvar Aalto’s Säynätsalo Town Hall in Finland, a building founded in history, landscape and civic life, and one of the architect’s most consummate works.
Quality in numbers: why working with a stable of practices produces better outcomes on large regeneration schemes
Michael Clark, Design Director at Hadley Property Group, explains how working with Haworth Tompkins, Metropolitan Workshop, Studio Egret West and dRMM on 980 Great West Road in Brentford is producing richer outcomes than any single practice could achieve alone.
Camille Chevrier
Engineer Camille Chevrier discusses the central role that applied research – from revisiting craft, to using robotic or digital-assisted construction methods – plays in the practice's work
White Breakers
Unknown Works has retrofitted a modest coastal bungalow in Pembrokeshire, transforming it into a low-energy family home that responds sensitively to its National Park setting.
Digitising roofing specification: tools, data and detail
David Coldham, Technical Director at IKO, discusses how the company’s Information & Resource Hub provides architects with the technical advice, tools and support needed to develop coordinated, compliant and buildable roofing specifications.
Using data to unlock value
PropertyData discusses how data-driven insights can give architects a competitive edge when it comes to securing residential retrofit and refurbishment projects.
Designing for care: specifying colour and paint in healthcare environments
Dulux Trade’s Dawn Scott and Andrew Cleaver, in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discusses how evidence-based colour strategies and high-performance paint systems can support wellbeing, inclusivity and long-term performance across healthcare projects.
Fishermen’s Rest
Italian practice gosplan has revitalised a historic stretch of Camogli Harbour in Liguria, creating a carefully crafted public realm that celebrates the enduring relationship between the fishing village, its working waterfront and everyday civic life.
Meet the client: Attzaz Rashid, Barratt London
Barratt London’s Head of Design, Attzaz Rashid, discusses the challenges of delivering high-quality, low-energy housing at scale, the realities of large-scale urban regeneration, and why collaboration is essential to creating better places.
The language of light
Hillarys explores how designers use natural and artificial light, alongside blinds and window treatments, to shape atmosphere, define space and create more adaptable residential interiors.
100 Fetter Lane
Fletcher Priest Architects’ new London headquarters is a low-impact workplace that prioritises reuse, adaptability and wellbeing, while also showcasing the practice’s circular design principles.
Moof Fitness Studio
A demountable gym concept by Madrid-based practice Canobardin uses a simple kit of parts to create a calm adaptable environment that can be replicated across multiple locations.
Pall Mall
Sheppard Robson has transformed Manchester’s Grade II-listed Pall Mall from an ageing post-war office block into a high-performance workplace, carefully reconstructing its Modernist façade while introducing new public spaces, flexible interiors and a fabric-first retrofit strategy.
AT Webinar: Circularity in architecture – designing for a zero-waste future
Join us on 22 July to for an AT webinar in partnership with TECHNAL UK & Ireland to explore how circular design principles are being put into practice across the built environment.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Studio SAAR
Studio SAAR reflect on designing across cultures and climates – combining vernacular wisdom, circular material strategies and ecological thinking to create places that strengthen communities and landscapes alike.
Bridging the housing gap for the sustainable cities of the future
Holcim hosted a panel discussion to explore the challenges involved in delivering intelligent solutions to the housing shortage in the UK and worldwide at the Zaha Hadid Foundation on June 23rd as part of London Festival of Architecture.
Sawtooth House
Francesco Pierazzi Architects has transformed an ageing extension to a Victorian house in Kingston upon Thames into a light-filled, low-energy family home. Drawing on the area's industrial heritage, the project combines a distinctive sawtooth roof profile with deep retrofit measures to create a playful yet highly sustainable domestic environment.
Regenerative Design – how can designers help clients take the lead?
Anna Pamphilon from Within Planetary Boundaries asks how designers can work with clients to factor long-term social and environmental implications into investment decisions and business plans.
Steel Window Association Awards 2026
The Cotswold Casement Company, West Leigh, and Associated Steel Window Services are among the companies that have triumphed at this year’s SWA Awards.
The Hummingbird Learning Lab: the shortlist
The Hummingbird Learning Lab has announced a shortlist of four teams from the Regenerative Architecture Index 2026 for its competition to design a demountable learning space that reflects its neuroscience-grounded approach to education and community engagement.
2026 Regenerative Architecture Index
The 2026 Regenerative Architecture Index brings together 119 organisations demonstrating a commitment to regenerative design, delivery and practice.
Delivering safer buildings – embedding fire, health and life safety into design practice
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Siderise, exploring how architects, practitioners and fire specialists are responding to the Building Safety Act by embedding fire, health and life safety into every stage of design, specification and project delivery.
Olympia
Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC have unveiled the first phase of Olympia’s £1.3 billion transformation, reimagining the historic west London exhibition venue as a mixed-use cultural neighbourhood and opening up a site that has remained largely inaccessible for more than a century.