Appleby Blue Almshouse wins the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize
Jason Sayer2025-10-20T15:11:10+01:00Appleby Blue Almshouse in Southwark, by Witherford Watson Mann Architects for United St Saviour’s Charity, has won the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize.
Meet the client: Conor Sreenan, Office of Public Works, Ireland
Jason Sayer2025-10-23T16:17:07+01:00Conor Sreenan, State Architect and Principal Architect at the Office of Public Works in Ireland talks to AT about the opportunities and challenges of leading public architecture in a time of national transformation.
Quiet confidence
AT Editor2025-10-15T17:25:44+01:00As offices adapt to hybrid working, acoustic control has become essential for comfort and certification. Optima outlines why independently verified data is critical for specifying glass partitions and doors that perform as designed.
Walk With Your Dreams
Jason Sayer2025-10-17T17:13:21+01:00Yinka Ilori transforms Milton Keynes Station Square with colour, pattern and planting.
Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture
Isabel Allen2025-10-17T12:42:03+01:00Exploration Architecture's founder Michael Pawlyn talks about biologically-inspired design approaches, moving beyond PassivHaus to an ideal of ActiveHaus and discussing company policy while making hedgerow jam.
Customised roof glazing for architects
AT Editor2025-10-15T14:24:46+01:00Whitesales explains how its made-to-measure roof glazing systems enable architects to realise distinctive daylighting designs – from contemporary roofscapes to sensitive heritage settings – with assured performance and reliable delivery.
Take A Bow Opportunity Centre
Jason Sayer2025-10-10T12:42:44+01:00O’DonnellBrown has reimagined a 1970s community building as a performing arts and youth centre in Kilmarnock, Scotland.
Broadfields Estate
Jason Sayer2025-10-09T15:46:12+01:00RCKa has completed 28 affordable rented apartments for Barnet Council within the Broadfields Estate in Edgware.
Bauder expands its UK presence
AT Editor2025-10-13T15:17:12+01:00Bauder’s new 4,100-square-metre distribution centre near Ipswich has strengthened its national distribution and sustainability efforts.
ROCKWOOL strengthens its commitment to fire safety leadership with the new FirePro range
AT Editor2025-10-09T15:24:14+01:00ROCKWOOL strengthens its commitment to fire safety leadership with the new FirePro range
Reflections: The Crystal Palace
Jason Sayer2025-10-09T17:22:11+01:00John Pardey on how Joseph Paxton’s pioneering Crystal Palace for Great Exhibition of 1851 marked the end of millennia of masonry and timber construction, ushering in a new era of light, span and prefabrication that would redefine architecture in the age of industry.
Power Hall
Jason Sayer2025-12-23T12:30:49+00:00Carmody Groarke has completed the refurbishment of the Power Hall at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum, combining heritage restoration with decarbonisation measures to create a more accessible and environmentally efficient museum.