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.
Seasoned CFO and CEO George Panos outlines how better forecasting, realistic pricing and consistent billing can create more resilient practices.
Named RIBA House of the Year 2025, Izat Arundell’s self-built home in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides was recognised for its sensitivity to place, hyper-local materiality and assured response to an extreme landscape.
WilkinsonEyre director Sébastien Ricard reflects on the long and complex journey to restore Battersea Power Station, exploring how flexibility, mixed use and deep respect for heritage were essential to transforming a near-derelict industrial monument into a resilient piece of city.
Open City CEO Manijeh Verghese marvels at Mumbai's rapid transformation and asks how you can slow the pace of change to a rate that allows its people to shape its future.
alma-nac’s transformation of a long-vacant high-street unit in Erith creates a flexible, low-carbon community hub, organised around a generous threshold space that links between street and interior.
John Pardey revisits de Blacam & Meagher’s Chapel of Reconciliation at Knock – a landmark of 20th century Irish Architecture – tracing its pilgrimage roots, profound materiality, and overarching influence on a new generation of Irish architects.
Peer Collective and artist Kateřina Šedá reimagine the Christmas market as a public space for reflection, sobriety and shared experience in Brno, Czech Republic.
Set against Sierra Leone’s tropical coastline, Freetown International Airport relies on Şişecam’s Duosol T 50 glazing to balance solar control, thermal performance, and visual clarity in one of West Africa’s most demanding climates.
Howells’ 40-acre Sea Gardens masterplan in Bray, County Wicklow, is set to deliver 1,200 new homes alongside shops, cafés and parks. With phase one now complete, project lead Daniel Mulligan reflects on what this former golf course will bring to Bray’s future – and how the team approached such a sensitive town extension.
