CUPA PIZARRAS slate specified for high-quality barn renovations in Yorkshire
AT Editor2025-04-11T08:14:27+01:00CUPA PIZARRAS slate specified for high-quality barn renovations in Yorkshire
AD agenda: co-design and just spaces for people
Jason Sayer2025-04-10T11:31:56+01:00Tom Greenall introduces DSDHA's Co-Design website and explains how achieving meaningful participation in co-design can serve as a transformative tool to address the complex, intersecting crises shaping our built environment.
Standing the test of time
Jason Sayer2025-04-08T17:31:29+01:00Isabel Allen charts the rise and re-rise of Marine Court – a 1930s behemoth on the South Coast that is enjoying a new lease of life under the custodianship of its current residents and owners.
Courtyard Houses
Nelly Greig2025-04-08T17:44:14+01:00Roz Barr Architects has replaced a 1960s house in Long Ditton, Surrey with two homes for three generations living under one roof. Nelly Greig enjoys an elegant reinterpretation of suburban family life.
Measuring Mass Timber
Jason Sayer2025-04-08T17:35:25+01:00A collaborative research project led by dRMM sets out the environmental and quality-of-life benefits of timber construction, and provides an open-source tool to measure building performance, including life cycle analysis and post occupancy evaluation.
Dispatches from Uzbekistan: Hakan Agca
Jason Sayer2025-04-08T17:43:52+01:00AT 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.
Still standing: Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, 1921
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-04-14T14:48:15+01:00
Hollyhock House lived up to Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of a building “comfortable to live in well, with true pride in itself” but was beset by disagreements with his mercurial client.
Tonkin Liu
Nelly Greig2025-04-28T13:25:30+01:00Tonkin 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 chosen for prestigious Mayfair development
AT Editor2025-04-08T12:50:38+01:00Kingfisher 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.
School of Specification – Security through laminated glass
AT Editor2025-04-07T15:11:48+01:00Allan 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.
Introducing the March-April 2025 issue of Architecture Today
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-04-10T17:18:18+01:00In 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.
The way forward for sustainable fibre cement facades
AT Editor2025-04-07T10:06:00+01:00EQUITONE explores the environmental credentials of its high-performance C2C Certified® fibre cement cladding.