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.
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.
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.
CUPACLAD® 101 Logic delivers a sustainable façade solution for Forest School in Coalville
Freshfield Lane: Naturally crafted bricks with enduring appeal
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.
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.
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.
Paul Morson, Group Melamine Manager at James Latham, speaks to Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw about Cleaf, a range of Italian-made melamines, laminates and matching ABS edgings that combine aesthetic performance with advanced surface engineering and dimensional stability.
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.
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.
Material Cultures explain how they are challenging conventional construction cultures in a bid to bring architecture closer to agriculture, land management and landscape.
