Martin Williams of Williams Griffiths Architects explains how – and why – the practice took on a flood-prone site in rural Suffolk, complex technical constrants and an extremely low budget to give an extraordinary client the home that she deserves.
1 Berkeley Street
Timothy Soar explains why he found it a joy to photograph AHMM's 'surgical transformation' of two tired 1970s buildings in London's West End into a vibrant mixed-use quarter that is smart, with a big heart.
Reinventing one of the City’s last grand townhouses
Chris Dyson Architects’ restoration of a five-storey Georgian townhouse in the City of London transforms a Grade II-listed building into a distinctive contemporary headquarters, balancing domestic grandeur with the demands of a modern workplace.
Clay Rise
Templeton Ford’s debut project is a carefully crafted house in West Sussex that draws on local materials, vernacular forms and passive environmental design.
Jan Kattein Architects
Jan Kattein Architects reflect on 15 years of retention, re-use, repurposing and repair – and giving an antique gramophone horn a brand new steam-punk lease of life.
The Victoria
Collective Architecture's 136-unit residential development at the former Victoria Infirmary site in Glasgow skilfully balances competing demands for density, heritage and public realm.
Muswell Hill Terrace
Zminkowska De Boise Architects’ crafted rear extension to an Edwardian terrace in Muswell Hill replaces a poorly performing side return with a calm, split-level sequence of spaces shaped by material clarity, light and everyday family life.
Barnscapes
A derelict East Sussex farm has been reimagined as a low-impact holiday retreat, skilfully balancing architectural rigour with informality and sustainability with adaptability.
Stronger together
Futurebuild and UK Construction Week London are uniting in 2026 to create the UK’s built environment super event.
Runda
NIKJOO’s timber-framed house for developer Flawk transforms a tight, curved corner plot in Gospel Oak into a sculptural, low-carbon home shaped by craft, material care and the site’s industrial past.
Breathing space
As indoor air quality rises up the agenda for architects, Johnstone’s Trade discusses how smarter paint and coating specifications can contribute to healthier buildings long after completion.
Purcell
Purcell discusses the challenges involved in maintaining and adapting our built heritage to meet the needs of today whilst planning for a more resilient tomorrow.
The Regenerative Architecture Index 2026 is open for entries
If you are actively engaging with regenerative principles, or setting out a clear, accountable pathway beyond sustainability, we encourage you to take part. Find out more, including how to enter, here.
School of Specification – Fire Safety for Principal Designers
Simón Santamaria, Technical Development Director at Stantec, has produced a School of Specification module on fire safety for principal designers. Here he explores the distinction between compliance and conformity, as well as the tools for evaluating competence and quality in fire safety design.
London Fields West
For more than two decades, London based practice Chance de Silva has pursued the question of what happens when art and architecture evolve simultaneously. With a design method shaped through collaboration with musicians, performance artists, painters and filmmakers, their recently completed project continues this enquiry, but this time, the collaborator is the city itself.
Delivering landmark projects
Join us on Wednesday 11th February to see presentations from AHMM, Dane Architectural Systems, John McAslan + Partners, ARUP and Williaam Cox as they present how they worked together to deliver landmark buildings that translate complex client ambitions into coherent, high-performing architecture at scale.
The Float House
TiggColl’s modular floating house on the Grand Union Canal reimagines waterside living through sustainable materials, accessible design, and an ingenious system of interlocking steel hulls.
Designing for play in the city
Susanne Tutsch, founding director of Root And Erect, reflects on the making of a woodland playscape at Chilton Square in King’s Cross, where non-prescriptive play, dense urban constraints and circular construction come together in a space designed to work for all ages, all day.
Reflections: Walt Disney Concert Hall
John Pardey revisits Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, examining its conceptual origins, exuberant material language, and its legacy within a generation shaped by icon-making architecture.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Meet the client: Tom Badger
AT chats to Tom Badger about how Newham Council is steering Canning Town’s major regeneration, balancing industrial intensification, housing growth, green infrastructure, and inclusive, community-led development.
Woolwich Market Pavilion and Gardens
Studio Weave’s Woolwich Market Pavilion and Gardens on Beresford Square in south-east London sensitively stitches together a mixed-use setting through accessible, communal spaces.
Review of 2025
2025 has been a year of looking closely – at buildings that endure, at ideas that travel, and at practices quietly reshaping the values of architecture. From the long view offered by the Architecture Today Awards to encounters with unexpected projects, places and people around the world, AT editor Isabel Allen looks back on a year rich in surprise, conviction and renewed optimism about what architecture can still achieve.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
Material Cultures
Material Cultures explain how they are challenging conventional construction cultures in a bid to bring architecture closer to agriculture, land management and landscape.
Building financial resilience
Seasoned CFO and CEO George Panos outlines how better forecasting, realistic pricing and consistent billing can create more resilient practices.
Caochan na Creige wins RIBA House of the Year
Named RIBA House of the Year 2025, Izat Arundell’s self-built home in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides was recognised for its sensitivity to place, hyper-local materiality and assured response to an extreme landscape.
Looking back at Battersea Power Station
WilkinsonEyre director Sébastien Ricard reflects on the long and complex journey to restore Battersea Power Station, exploring how flexibility, mixed use and deep respect for heritage were essential to transforming a near-derelict industrial monument into a resilient piece of city.
My Kind of Town: Manijeh Verghese
Open City CEO Manijeh Verghese marvels at Mumbai's rapid transformation and asks how you can slow the pace of change to a rate that allows its people to shape its future.
68 Erith Hub
alma-nac’s transformation of a long-vacant high-street unit in Erith creates a flexible, low-carbon community hub, organised around a generous threshold space that links between street and interior.
