Preserving heritage with purpose
AT Editor2025-11-04T14:21:00+00:00The Rooflight Co explains how its CPD, Conservation Rooflights in Context, goes beyond the classroom and into the heart of high-quality British manufacturing.
Reflections: Maison de Verre
Jason Sayer2025-11-03T22:40:40+00:00John Pardey on how Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoët's Maison de Verre (House of Glass) redefined domestic architecture in 1930s Paris — fusing craft and industry, transparency and privacy, transforming a bourgeois townhouse into a luminous, steel-framed gesamtkunstwerk.
Dispatches from Shanghai: Kraipol Jayanetra, Alkhemist Architects
Jason Sayer2025-11-03T22:21:10+00:00We spoke to Kraipol Jayanetra of Alkhemist Architects about the studio’s playful contribution to the 'Shanghai Picnic' architecture biennial. Using on four colourful mobile carts, the project explores informality, improvisation and spirit in the city.
FireSound: Fire and acoustic performance in a single door blank
AT Editor2025-11-03T10:38:46+00:00Chris Higginson, Group Technical Sales Manager for Doors at James Latham, speaks to Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw about how Moralt’s technically advanced and adaptable FireSound door blanks can help architects meet Parts B and E of the Building Regulations.
Building faster, building better
AT Editor2025-10-29T14:47:06+00:00James Hardie explains how fermacell® fibre gypsum boards can help accelerate project timelines without compromising on quality.
New finishes unveiled for the Focus SB Ambassador Wall Light
AT Editor2025-10-29T14:45:49+00:00New finishes unveiled for the Focus SB Ambassador Wall Light
Stone Demonstration
Jason Sayer2025-11-05T12:51:10+00:00Webb Yates, Arup, Groupwork’s three-storey prototype at Earls Court explores how pre-tensioned stone can replace carbon-intensive materials, reimagining the structural frame as a durable, low-energy and reusable system for the future of construction.
One Great Cumberland Place
AT Editor2025-10-31T17:18:05+00:00Gort Scott has completed an environmentally-focused interior fit-out for The Portman Estate’s new head office in London, combining spatial flexibility with low-carbon materials and extensive planting.
LennaMare School
Jason Sayer2025-11-17T09:49:41+00:00BDP’s new school in Lemmer, The Netherlands, draws on the region’s vernacular barns to create a calm, light-filled learning environment.
Marks Barfield Architects
Isabel Allen2025-10-28T15:46:42+00:00Marks Barfield Architects discuss viewing buildings as material banks; drawing inspiration from biomimicry to shape the culture and structure of the practice and taking a principled position on projects at home and overseas.
Doshi Retreat
AT Editor2025-10-30T10:33:30+00:00A contemplative structure designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Balkrishna Doshi, in collaboration with his granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof, is the latest addition to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein.