Laura Baron, Head of Sustainability at Purcell, calls for architects to set aside ego and embrace their role as custodians, working collaboratively to preserve, adapt and enrich the places and communities entrusted to their care.
Studio Weave’s transformation of one of the City of London’s oldest and busiest interchanges creates a more generous pedestrian environment while enhancing the setting of the Bank of England, Mansion House and Royal Exchange.
Join us on 23 September for an AT webinar, in partnership with Promat, looking how we can retrofit safety and implement passive fire protection strategies for change of use and renovations.
The future of the built environment demands more than sustainability. For years, those in the built environment have focused on reducing harm by lowering carbon, improving energy performance and cutting waste. Those ambitions remain vital, but today's environmental and social challenges demand something more.
Peter Smith, Architect at Collective Architecture, considers how architects and planners can create cities that give children greater freedom to explore, play and make use of the spaces around them.
John Pardey explores Marina Tabassum's Bait Ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, a modest brick building where primary geometry, natural ventilation and shifting patterns of light create a profound place of worship and community.
Join us on 10 September for an AT webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics, exploring how architects and designers are creating workplaces that support people, organisational needs and environmental responsibility.
Regenerative Design 2026 brings the built environment together to turn ambition into action at The Building Centre in London from 1–30 October.
A free photography workshop at Marine Court combined practical guidance from Timothy Soar with an architectural tour of St Leonards-on-Sea led by Ian Macready.
In this issue: the Test of Time Awards finalists, Lahdelma & Mahlamäki’s Lost Shtetl Museum, Ian Volner on Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família, Marcus Lee of LEEP Architects in Reinventing Practice, The Drift in Suffolk, Axo Architects’ Benedictine Monastery at Kylemore Abbey, Materials Library with BakerBrown, and Farid Esmaeil’s Dubai in My Kind of Town – and much more.
TaylorHare’s low-lying family home in East Sussex brings together a series of corrugated metal volumes and sheltered courtyards, embedding the building within its woodland setting.
The Glasgow School of Art is expected to replace Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s fire-damaged masterpiece with a contemporary building behind retained sections of its historic façade.
