Affordable housing demands architects who can balance vision with reality. Sam Galloway explains how Incommunities selects and collaborates with designers, embedding practical, sustainable, and socially minded approaches, while ensuring schemes remain viable, well-managed, and places residents will value for decades.
At UKREiiF, a panel explored how power, planning, data centres and logistics are reshaping the industrial development market.
Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook used his UKREiiF address to defend the government’s record on housing and planning, set out the next stages of reform, and call for greater collaboration between government and the construction sector.
At UKREiiF, a panel chaired by Euan Mills explored whether dwellings per hectare remains a useful measure of density, or whether the industry needs more sophisticated ways of understanding how places function, evolve and support everyday life.
Jon McDiarmid and Seb Loyn from YTL Developments talk to Isabel Allen about transforming the 142-hectare former Filton Airfield, just outside Bristol, into the 'least new' of the latest batch of New Towns – and identifying the right architect for the job.
AT chats to Jon Di Stefano, CEO of Greencore Homes, about climate-positive housing, natural-material construction, and how better-than-net-zero homes can move from niche proposition to mainstream development model.
Abigail Scott Paul, Global Head of the Humanise Campaign, talks to AT Editor Isabel Allen about waging war on mediocrity and giving Mayors the tools they need to set an awesome long-term vision for the communities they serve.
Khan Bonshek’s retrofit of Milton Keynes’ Pyramid House, originally designed for the 1981 Homeworld, carefully reworks the postmodern prototype for contemporary living through a considered reorganisation of space, light and movement.
Three practices involved in the Regenerative Architecture Index joined Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare at Futurebuild 2026 to explore what regenerative architecture looks like in practice today.
ConForm’s extension and reconfiguration of a terraced house in Dulwich uses light, layered views and carefully positioned voids to create stronger spatial connections across a split-level family home.
Set between a traditional shoreline cottage and the Atlantic edge of Galway Bay, ALWA’s low-slung pavilion extension balances exposure and shelter through a restrained architecture that carefully recalibrates the relationship between house, landscape and sea.
