PEARCE+’s demountable timber pavilion for Camden Inspire explores how reclaimed materials, collective making and simple shading strategies can help communities respond to increasingly hot urban environments.
Wright & Wright Architects has completed a Passivhaus student housing development for St Edmund Hall, combining new CLT buildings with the low-energy retrofit of a Victorian villa in North Oxford’s conservation area.
The launch of the newly revised Regenerative Design chapter of the UK Architects Declare Practice Guide took place at the opening week of Regenerative Design 2026 at the Building Centre.
Barnaby Steel of experiential art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast and concert pianist Sarah Nicolls will join engineer Neil Thomas of Atelier One at Tree Stories (and some grass), a Regenerative Design 2026 event on the evening of Wednesday October 21st.
The third RIBA London Ethical Practice Forum brought built environment professionals together at Regenerative Design 2026 to explore how innovation can help renew architectural practice.
Forming part of Regenerative Design 2026, AT in partnership with In Opera hosted a round table discussion exploring the challenges of creating regenerative supply chains and making more responsible material choices.
Opening Regenerative Design 2026, Elora Hardy, founder of IBUKU, argues that regenerative practice begins by leaning to unlearn, and question the assumptions designers have inherited. Watch her keynote speech here.
John McAslan + Partners has given Oxford’s former Osney Power Station a new lease of life as an executive education centre, preserving its industrial scale while carving new teaching, social and residential spaces into the existing structure.
Orms’ brick-clad mixed-use building on the corner of Oxford Street and Wells Street draws on the architectural and material character of Fitzrovia to deliver offices, retail and a new basement venue behind a richly articulated façade.
Kelly Alvarez Doran, Co-Founder of Ha/f Climate Design, focused on the regulatory and economic systems that determine what gets built, arguing that carbon and cost are often driven by the same underlying decisions. Watch Kelly's talk in full here.
Amin Taha, Founder and Director of Groupwork, sets out a radical approach to new construction: start with a timber building, then go through and assess each component, only substituting materials out where strictly necessary. Listen to Amin's talk in full here.
Duncan Baker-Brown, Founder and Director of Baker-Brown Studio, focussed on extraction and the use of manufactured products and natural building materials, arguing that mass extraction for bio-based materials can be just as harmful to the planet. There is another approach. Find out more by watching Duncan's talk in full here.
