A new governance initiative by Exploration Architecture gives nature and future generations a formal voice in the practice's decision-making, extending a movement that is reshaping how organisations define corporate responsibility.
The future of the built environment demands more than sustainability. For years, those in the built environment have focused on reducing harm by lowering carbon, improving energy performance and cutting waste. Those ambitions remain vital, but today's environmental and social challenges demand something more.
Duncan Baker-Brown, Tom Cuthbert, and Hannah Foreman discuss the practice’s circular approach to materiality, from urban mining and harvest mapping to designing buildings as future material stores.
Peter Smith, Architect at Collective Architecture, considers how architects and planners can create cities that give children greater freedom to explore, play and make use of the spaces around them.
Jonathan Lowy, Operational Marketing Manager at VM Building Solutions, has produced a School of Specification module exploring the use of zinc in roofing and façade applications. Here, he discusses the material’s performance and aesthetic qualities, as well as key specification considerations.
For Enzo Favro, regenerative design is about looking beyond a building's immediate impact to the legacy it leaves behind. The Director of In Opera Group explains why natural stone, terrazzo and a long-term approach to material value are central to creating places that last.
Marcus Lee and Corinna Dean have converted a Hopper-esque cluster of farm buildings in the Suffolk countryside into a maker space and home. Yuki Sumner applauds an 'architecture of empathy' that finds poetry in the awkwardness and rawness in agricultural infrastructure and opts for minimum intervention for maximum effect.
John Pardey explores Marina Tabassum's Bait Ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, a modest brick building where primary geometry, natural ventilation and shifting patterns of light create a profound place of worship and community.
Join us on 10 September for an AT webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics, exploring how architects and designers are creating workplaces that support people, organisational needs and environmental responsibility.
Darren Brennan, Specification Director at Siderise, answers readers’ questions on passive fire protection under the Building Safety Act.
Under the ninth generation of architectural leadership Antoni Gaudí’s Gothic masterpiece was finally inaugurated by Pope Leo XIV in June. So why does the world’s best-known construction project still seem curiously incomplete?
Dulux Trade's Dawn Scott and Andrew Cleaver, in conversation with Architecture Today's Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discuss how informed colour specification and durable coating solutions can support independence, dignity and long-term performance across elderly care projects.
