AT talks to Hakan Agca, founder and managing director of Cross Works in London, a practice that recently won a competition to design a new city of two million people across 25,000 hectares next to Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent.
Tonkin Liu’s studio is shaped by nature. From watching light change over the seasons to collecting seeds on their travels, Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu share how reconnecting with the rhythms of the natural world is key to designing for the long term.
Kingfisher Louvres, a specialist manufacturer of aluminium architectural louvres, has delivered more than 600 acoustic louvre modules and 1600 metres of screening louvre blade for a new award-winning mixed-use redevelopment project incorporating a luxury hotel in London.
Allan Gibson, AIS Global Product/Marketing Segment Manager at Kuraray Europe, has produced a School of Specification module exploring security using laminated glass. Here, he considers the main security threats for glazing and what can be done to mitigate them.
In this issue: Unboxed Homes’ Blenheim Grove in Peckham, Keith Williams Architects’ De Valera Library and Súil Gallery in Ireland, Materials library with Alison Brooks Architects, Roz Barr Architects’ Courtyard Houses in Surrey, dRMM on the benefits of mass timber, and more.
EQUITONE explores the environmental credentials of its high-performance C2C Certified® fibre cement cladding.
Backlit HIMACS solid surface panels articulate the eye-catching ‘Sounds of Hayes’ underpass in west London.
From regenerative design to material rationing, Christopher Ash and James Soane from Project Orange explore the urgent need for a paradigm shift in how we build, renovate, and engage with communities.
SAVE Britain’s Heritage has marked its 50th anniversary with the launch of a new website, refreshed graphic identity, and — most significantly — free public access to its Buildings at Risk register for the first time.
London’s National Gallery has opened its doors to a newly refurbished education centre designed by Lawson Ward Studio with heritage support from Purcell.
Kate Quinlan, director at McLean Quinlan talks to AT about the virtues of having a family-run practice, why they moved the office to Winchester, and two new projects on the North Downs and in the US.
