Doshi Retreat
Doshi Retreat

A contemplative structure designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Balkrishna Doshi, in collaboration with his granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof, is the latest addition to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein.

LennaMare School

BDP’s new school in Lemmer, The Netherlands, draws on the region’s vernacular barns to create a calm, light-filled learning environment.

Marks Barfield Architects

Marks Barfield Architects discuss viewing buildings as material banks; drawing inspiration from biomimicry to shape the culture and structure of the practice and taking a principled position on projects at home and overseas. 

Delivering social value

The Keystone Group’s 2025 Social Value Report highlights the positive contribution it is making across the construction industry and beyond.

Cairo Pergola

CLUSTER and THISS Studio with Orient Productions’ vivid red pavilion reclaims public space along the Nile River in Cairo as a stage for community, performance and environmental action.

Reimagining iconic buildings

Architects and façade specialists from Foster + Partners, Propak Architectural, Farrells and Schüco discuss how they collaborated to repurpose two of London’s landmark buildings – The Whiteley and Powerhouse – at an event exploring the value of reuse and restoration.

Plastic Box

Minimal Studio’s radical reworking of a Majorca supermarket explores consumer culture through minimalist design.

Timber inspiration and knowledge in partnership with James Latham

AT Webinar: Navigating Gateway 2

Join us on Wednesday 12 November for a focused session on the key responsibilities and practical steps design teams need to take when working on higher-risk buildings and preparing for Gateway 2 submissions.

Architecture Today September-October 2025

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The hidden cost of noise

Ben Hancock, Managing Director of Oscar Acoustics, explains why poor acoustics are quietly undermining offices, and how businesses are paying the price.

The Gallery

Cagni Williams Associates has reworked an Edwardian terraced house in south London, replacing the rear conservatory with a Corten steel-and-glass extension, and delivering a low-energy retrofit with carefully crafted spaces.

Reinventing practice

Five minutes with… Colin Mackay from Hawkins\Brown

As Hawkins\Brown embarks on Phase 1 of Parnell Cultural Quarter, Colin Mackay gives AT a first look inside the new centre for cultural exchange, and catches up with Colin Mackay, Partner at the Dublin office.

Gap House

An innovative prototype by BDP for Bristol City Council turns a disused garage site in Horfield into nine sustainable, factory-built homes for social rent.

Quiet confidence

As offices adapt to hybrid working, acoustic control has become essential for comfort and certification. Optima outlines why independently verified data is critical for specifying glass partitions and doors that perform as designed.

Walk With Your Dreams

Yinka Ilori transforms Milton Keynes Station Square with colour, pattern and planting.

Roofing inspiration and knowledge
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)

VMZINC Gallery 2025

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Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture

Exploration Architecture's founder Michael Pawlyn talks about biologically-inspired design approaches, moving beyond PassivHaus to an ideal of  ActiveHaus and discussing company policy while making hedgerow jam.

Customised roof glazing for architects

Whitesales explains how its made-to-measure roof glazing systems enable architects to realise distinctive daylighting designs – from contemporary roofscapes to sensitive heritage settings – with assured performance and reliable delivery.

Take A Bow Opportunity Centre

O’DonnellBrown has reimagined a 1970s community building as a performing arts and youth centre in Kilmarnock, Scotland.

Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers

Broadfields Estate

RCKa has completed 28 affordable rented apartments for Barnet Council within the Broadfields Estate in Edgware.

Bauder expands its UK presence

Bauder’s new 4,100-square-metre distribution centre near Ipswich has strengthened its national distribution and sustainability efforts.

Reflections: The Crystal Palace

John Pardey on how Joseph Paxton’s pioneering Crystal Palace for Great Exhibition of 1851 marked the end of millennia of masonry and timber construction, ushering in a new era of light, span and prefabrication that would redefine architecture in the age of industry.

Power Hall

Carmody Groarke has completed the refurbishment of the Power Hall at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum, combining heritage restoration with decarbonisation measures to create a more accessible and environmentally efficient museum.

Two systems, one VEKA standard

VEKA discusses how its M70 and OMNIA PVCu window and door systems combine contemporary aesthetics with outstanding thermal performance and sustainable manufacturing.

Dispatches from Shanghai: Rachaporn Choochuey

Bangkok-based architect Rachaporn Choochuey, co-founder of all(zone), discusses her curatorial approach for the Rockbund Art Museum’s biennial festival of architectural thinking, RAM Assembles 2025. Titled Shanghai Picnic, the biennial explores how informal, spontaneous public life can be rekindled in one of Shanghai’s most meticulously restored and highly regulated urban environments.

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