Dispatches: Cooke Fawcett

RDA Architects

Richard Dudzicki tells AT how cinema, Passivhaus principles and London’s constraints shape a practice focused on retaining what exists, using fewer resources and finding inventive ways to make lasting homes.

Designing workplaces for people and planet

Watch the AT Workplace webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics, exploring how retrofit, reuse, adaptability, acoustic comfort and long-term thinking are shaping workplaces that work better for people and the planet.

Free RD26 seminar: Whole life carbon and adaptive reuse

Max Fordham, Grimshaw, Elliott Wood, PDP and Esther Robinson Wild join the line-up at a seminar on whole life carbon and adaptive reuse that takes place on the morning of Thursday 15th October as part of Regenerative Design 2026.

Corinna Dean

Corinna Dean of ARCA considers how architecture can foster care for human and non-human life, drawing on collaborative projects from floating reed beds on the River Lea to bio-receptive bricks that expose the environmental costs of making.

Architects Declare’s Next Gen Ambassadors present: Regenerative Design – What Now?

What does it look like when a generation of architects witness their profession fundamentally change over the course of their training – and, more importantly, what happens when we stop waiting for the industry to catch up and start changing it ourselves?

4 Arbour Street, Copper Square

shedkm’s 14-storey office building at Brent Cross Town combines a precast concrete frame with cross-laminated timber floors to reduce embodied carbon while providing flexible workspace alongside the new Brent Cross West station.

Paul Ruff

Paul Ruff reflects on a career shaped by resourcefulness, reinvention and a growing conviction that architecture must take responsibility for its impact.

Navigating the gateway process

Adam Eaton, Director at Trigon Fire Safety, and Jayne Hall, Associate at Hunters, have produced a School of Specification module on navigating the Gateway process. Here, they explore architects’ responsibilities, Gateway 2 submissions, change control and demonstrating compliance at Gateway 3.

Office S&M

From their annual 'Plants and Pints' to a house designed for trees and cats, Office S&M are making regenerative design fun, creative, and an intuitive characteristic of contemporary practise.

Jihlava Municipal Arena

CHYBÍK + KRIŠTOF’s new sports and culture venue in Jihlava combines a 5,650-seat arena with new public spaces, landscape and supporting facilities designed to extend the life of the Czech city centre.

Dulux announces Soulful Sage™ as its colour of the year

At a School of Specification webinar, Dulux has named Soulful Sage™ its Colour of the Year for 2027. Dawn Scott, Dulux Trade Senior Colour Designer at AkzoNobel explains how this soft, silvery green sits at the heart of three carefully developed colour palettes.

A landmark achievement

Radmat discusses how its high-performance insulation and waterproofing systems helped realise the complex roofscape and landscaped terraces of Hopkins Architects’ 100 Liverpool Street in the City of London.

The Hummingbird Learning Lab: the winners

Invisible Studio and Studio 8FOLD have been selected as joint winners of the Hummingbird Learning Lab competition to design a learning environment that reflects a new approach to education.

Exploring sector-specific roofing solutions with IKO Town

David Coldham, Technical Director at IKO, discusses how roofing and waterproofing requirements vary across residential, industrial and education sectors, and explains how IKO Town is helping architects explore systems, specifications and technical guidance in a more interactive way.

Gary Clark, HKS

For Gary Clark of HKS using regenerative principles as a design driver yields long-term benefits, not just for communities and the environment, but for business too.

Designing for leisure: colour and paint specification in hotels and restaurants

Dulux Trade's Dawn Scott and Lee Crossland, in conversation with Architecture Today's Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discuss how considered colour specification and high-performance coating systems can help create memorable hospitality environments that combine strong visual identity with long-term durability.

Mandy Franz, MICA

Mandy Franz's approach to architecture has been shaped by the romantic castles and brutalist architecture of her East German childhood, Santiago Calatrava and a focus on striking a balance between respect for heritage and a hunger for progress.

Tullie Museum

De Matos Ryan has reworked Carlisle’s Tullie Museum, creating a new entrance, gallery, community spaces and shop aimed at strengthening the building’s relationship with the city.

Brooke House

GRID architects has completed 102 affordable homes for Women’s Pioneer Housing in west London, combining increased density with dual-aspect living and a landscape designed around mature trees.

Harrow on the Hill

Inglis Badrashi Loddo has transformed a Grade II-listed former council building in north-west London into five apartments.

Čebín Primary School

Knesl Kynčl Architekti has transformed a 1970s village shop near Brno into a compact primary school, reusing its existing structure while preparing the building for future expansion and local energy sharing.

Reserve your place for the launch of UK Architects Declare’s updated Regenerative Design Primer

As UK Architects Declare prepares to launch its updated Regenerative Design Primer at Regenerative Design 2026, Anna Pamphilon of Within Planetary Boundaries Studio explains why – if we are to bring people with us – regenerative practice must be collaborative and ambitious, but also hopeful and fun.

Dulux Colour of the Year

Dulux Senior Designer Dawn Scott will unveil the 2027 Colour of the Year on September 8th at an exclusive webinar and reveal the trends and supporting palettes set to influence commercial interiors.

6 The Square, Liphook

Stedman Blower has restored a 450-year-old former post office in Liphook, Hampshire. Architectural historian Kenneth Powell explains how a characterful new home has been created for the practice as it secures the building’s future.

Pardini Hall

Elisa Pardini and Robert Hall's approach to architecture is shaped by a mix of English and Italian influences including the countryside around Lucca in Pardini's native Italy.

A Memorial Forest

Studio Wignall & Moore has created a memorial landscape at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, commemorating more than 400 First World War service personnel whose graves were never formally identified.