Environmentalist and engineer Will Arnold launches the first public-facing non-fiction book on regenerative design at Regenerative Design 2026.
Crystal Palace Park
HTA Design, Bromley Council and Crystal Palace Park Trust have delivered the first major phase of Crystal Palace Park’s regeneration, restoring its celebrated dinosaur sculptures and Italian Terraces while introducing new landscapes, visitor facilities and routes through the Grade-II* listed park.
Crystal Palace Park Visitor Centre
Tate + Co and HTA Design have completed a timber-framed visitor centre for London’s Crystal Palace Park, combining adaptable community and exhibition spaces with the reuse of the previous building’s foundations.
Greenheys
BDP has completed a major laboratory and research building at Manchester Science Park, providing a new HQ for UK Biobank and flexible specialist facilities for the city’s growing life sciences sector.
How Should We Innovate?
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.
AT Workplace Webinar: Designing for people and planet
Join us on 10 September for an AT webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics, exploring how architects and designers are creating workplaces that support people, organisational needs and environmental responsibility.
Yukta Chegu wins 2026 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
University of Bath student Yukta Chegu has won the 2026 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship for research exploring what global construction can learn from India’s informal material salvage economies.
Help the client: beyond business as usual
Beau Lotto of Hummingbird Learning Lab, Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio and Julia Barfield of Marks Barfield Architects are hosting an interactive brainstorm at Regenerative Design 2026, exploring how to help clients get radical projects off the ground and challenge the conventions that hinder collaborative, regenerative design.
New Story Garden
Jan Kattein Architects and Global Generation have transformed a former railway storage site at London’s King’s Cross into a permanent ecology garden, built from natural and reclaimed materials with the help of more than 3,000 volunteers.
My Kind of Town: Farid Esmaeil
For X Architects founding partner Farid Esmaeil, Dubai is an extraordinary laboratory with a climate that demands a careful approach to materiality and passive design and a confidence that invites you to test ideas, challenge conventions and imagine architecture in new ways.
Watch the People’s Emergency Briefing at Regenerative Design 2026
Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare are hosting a screening of The People's Emergency Briefing on the evening of Wednesday 28th October at the Building Centre in central London as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Regenerative Design takes to Radio 4
RIBA President Elect Jay Morton, Architecture Today Editor Isabel Allen and author and historian Barnabas Calder discuss housing and regenerative design with Tom Heap and Helen Czerski on Radio 4's Rare Earth.
Visit the Bears at Wildheart at Regenerative Design 2026
Real-time real-size live footage of two bears rescued from captivity and re-housed at the Wildheart Animal Sanctuary will be on display at the Regenerative Design 2026 throughout October, celebrating an on-going collaboration between Wildheart and the RAI.
Don’t miss the Reinventing Practice exhibition at Regenerative Design 2026
An exhibition of photographic portraits and interviews focusing on members of the Regenerative Architecture Index offers an insight into practices and organisations working to accelerate the transition to regenerative design.
Tollymore
Set on a steep triangular site above the Shimna river in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, McGonigle McGrath's Tollymore house steps six separate volumes down towards the water, trading the conventional continuity of a family home for a domestic landscape that rests in the spaces between nature and dwelling.
Tournesol swimming pool
Studio Arcos B has reworked one of France’s distinctive 1970s Tournesol swimming pools, preserving Bernard Schoeller’s prefabricated domed structure as the centrepiece of a more sustainable and accessible leisure complex.
The death of the architectural ego
Laura Baron, Head of Sustainability at Purcell, calls for architects to set aside ego and embrace their role as custodians, working collaboratively to preserve, adapt and enrich the places and communities entrusted to their care.
Neil Thomas announced as keynote speaker at Regenerative Design 2026
The founder of the world's most innovative structural engineering firm Neil Thomas of Atelier One will share his research and thinking about the lessons trees can teach us about structural design at an evening talk on Wednesday 21st October.
All change at Bank
Studio Weave’s transformation of one of the City of London’s oldest and busiest interchanges creates a more generous pedestrian environment while enhancing the setting of the Bank of England, Mansion House and Royal Exchange.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Michael Pawlyn announced as keynote speaker at Regenerative Design 2026
The founder of Exploration Architecture, co-founder of UK Architects Declare and globally recognised thought leader on regenerative design will set out his thinking on pathways for a regenerative future at an evening event on Wednesday 14th October.
Timothy Soar explains the ambition – and the significance – of Regenerative Design 2026
Photographer Timothy Soar is giving a talk on the relationship between the way we document architecture and the transition to regenerative design on the morning of Tuesday October 6th at Regenerative Design 2026. Here he explains why he's getting involved.
Exploration Architecture appoints nature and future generations to its board
A new governance initiative by Exploration Architecture gives nature and future generations a formal voice in the practice's decision-making, extending a movement that is reshaping how organisations define corporate responsibility.
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Drumhalla
At Drumhalla House in County Donegal, Pasparakis Friel has reconfigured a traditional venue, reconnecting three formerly separate houses and introducing a sequence of new thresholds, views and rooms that recast the country house as a contemporary setting.
RD26: Why Regenerative Design? Why this conversation matters now
The future of the built environment demands more than sustainability. For years, those in the built environment have focused on reducing harm by lowering carbon, improving energy performance and cutting waste. Those ambitions remain vital, but today's environmental and social challenges demand something more.
Materials library: BakerBrown
Duncan Baker-Brown, Tom Cuthbert, and Hannah Foreman discuss the practice’s circular approach to materiality, from urban mining and harvest mapping to designing buildings as future material stores.
The life of the City
Peter Smith, Architect at Collective Architecture, considers how architects and planners can create cities that give children greater freedom to explore, play and make use of the spaces around them.
School of Specification – Zinc as a building envelope
Jonathan Lowy, Operational Marketing Manager at VM Building Solutions, has produced a School of Specification module exploring the use of zinc in roofing and façade applications. Here, he discusses the material’s performance and aesthetic qualities, as well as key specification considerations.
Enzo Favro
For Enzo Favro, regenerative design is about looking beyond a building's immediate impact to the legacy it leaves behind. The Director of In Opera Group explains why natural stone, terrazzo and a long-term approach to material value are central to creating places that last.