Tony White from Hopkins Architects and Alistair Finn, development advisor and project manager, explain the thinking that informed the design of WWF-UK’s Woking HQ – winner of the Workplace Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025.
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.
Standing the test of time: Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre
Cindy Walters from Walters & Cohen Architects and Maitreyabandhu from the London Buddhist Centre discuss the challenge of communicating the Buddhist vision to the modern world through the Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre – winner of the Religion & Culture Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025.
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.
Strážné Cottage
Mimosa Architects’ mountain cottage in the Krkonoše village of Strážné reinterprets the spatial principles and material character of traditional alpine dwellings, creating a contemporary family retreat rooted in the landscape and craft traditions of the region.
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.
Kao La Amani Children’s Village
At the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro in Boma Ng’ombe, Tanzania, Article 25 has completed a climate-responsive off-grid settlement designed to provide long-term care, stability and a community for orphaned children.
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.
Rethinking insulation for housing
STEICO explores the environmental and performance benefits of specifying wood fibre insulation on large housing developments.
Dispatches from Historic England: Claudia Kenyatta and Emma Squire
Historic England's Co-CEOs Claudia Kenyatta and Emma Squire introduce a new guide that helps architects and clients to identify, de-risk and fund opportunities to reimagine heritage buildings as creative industry hubs.
Senior Citizens’ Home
Architektura’s brick-built retirement home for the Town of Nový Bydžov reinterprets the orchard, cemetery walls and open Central Bohemian landscape to create four courtyard households arranged around light-filled atriums.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Delivering education buildings in 2026
With education estates under increasing pressure to do more with less, this roundtable discussion, hosted by AT in partnership with IKO, explored how more intelligent approaches to procurement, manufacture and retrofit can help future-proof the next generation of schools, colleges and universities.
AT Webinar: Striking the balance with heritage assets
Join us on Wednesday 25th March to explore how heritage asset owners and designers can balance conservation requirements with modern expectations for comfort, energy performance and long-term stewardship in sensitive historic contexts.
Standing the test of time: Kentish Town Health Centre
Paul Monaghan from Allford Hall Monaghan Morris reflects on the enduring success of Kentish Town Health Centre – Healthcare Award winner at the Test of Time Awards 2025 – with David Ransley, practice manager during the project’s conception and delivery.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
The colour of clay
Michelmersh explores how pastel, traditional and monochrome clay bricks shape architectural identity, helping designers balance context, character and contemporary expression.
Haberdashers’ Monmouth School Masterplan
Levitt Bernstein’s comprehensive retrofit and decarbonisation strategy for Haberdashers’ Monmouth School in Wales transforms six buildings across three town sites, unlocking the potential of existing assets to support a newly co-educational model and a clear path to Net Zero Carbon.
Westwind
Architect Madeleine Kivell’s reworking of her London home demonstrates how VELUX roof windows can create a ‘lightbox effect’, drawing daylight deep into the plan to support privacy, wellbeing and family life.
The Hummingbird Learning Lab: the longlist
The Hummingbird Learning Lab has selected a longlist of eight practices from the Regenerative Architecture Index for its competition to design a demountable learning space that reflects its neuroscience-grounded approach to education and community engagement.
Expanding the palette
HIMACS introduces 15 new colours to its solid surfaces portfolio for 2026, offering architects greater aesthetic freedom alongside proven performance and sustainability credentials.
Dispatches from Architects Declare: Anna Woodeson
Anna Woodeson, Sustainability Director at Buro Happold and a Trustee at Architects Declare, spells out what's wrong with the latest proposals for the National Planning Policy Framework NPPF, and explains how architects can engage with the process and make their voices heard.
