The Acre
Jason Sayer2025-04-30T09:24:02+01:00Gensler’s transformation of a 1980s Richard Seifert building in Covent Garden reimagines a Brutalist landmark as a vibrant, sustainable workplace centred on wellbeing and community.
Euston Skills Centre
Jason Sayer2025-04-30T09:23:28+01:00Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects’ Euston Skills Centre in Camden provides a dedicated space for local skills development, forming part of a wider ‘meanwhile use’ strategy that supports both the HS2 Euston Station project and the surrounding community.
Dispatches from Bath: architect in residence, Bob Allies
Jason Sayer2025-10-23T16:37:26+01:00AT talks to... Bob Allies, partner at Allies and Morrison, who, reflects on his evolving role as 'architect in residence' for the City of Bath, working across council departments to enhance design quality, foster collaboration, and demonstrate the value of architectural insight in shaping the city.
Reflections: Grande Arche de la Défense
Jason Sayer2025-04-22T22:14:32+01:00John Pardey on Johan Otto von Spreckelsen's La Grande Arche in Paris (1989) – a monumental, yet elegant building laced with symbolism that was part of President Mitterand's Grands Projets.
Meet the client: Lloyd Lee, Yoo Capital
Jason Sayer2025-04-11T15:19:06+01:00Lloyd Lee, Managing Partner at Yoo Capital discusses the company’s investment in Olympia and Camden, reflecting a bold belief in London’s enduring global appeal – and what makes a successful architect-client relationship for him.
AD agenda: co-design and just spaces for people
Jason Sayer2025-04-10T11:31:56+01:00Tom Greenall introduces DSDHA's Co-Design website and explains how achieving meaningful participation in co-design can serve as a transformative tool to address the complex, intersecting crises shaping our built environment.
Standing the test of time
Jason Sayer2025-04-08T17:31:29+01:00Isabel Allen charts the rise and re-rise of Marine Court – a 1930s behemoth on the South Coast that is enjoying a new lease of life under the custodianship of its current residents and owners.
Measuring Mass Timber
Jason Sayer2025-04-08T17:35:25+01:00A collaborative research project led by dRMM sets out the environmental and quality-of-life benefits of timber construction, and provides an open-source tool to measure building performance, including life cycle analysis and post occupancy evaluation.
Dispatches from Uzbekistan: Hakan Agca
Jason Sayer2025-10-23T16:37:37+01:00AT talks to Hakan Agca, founder and managing director of Cross Works in London, a practice that recently won a competition to design a new city of two million people across 25,000 hectares next to Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent.
SAVE’s Buildings at Risk Register now open to the public
Jason Sayer2025-04-02T10:55:05+01:00SAVE Britain’s Heritage has marked its 50th anniversary with the launch of a new website, refreshed graphic identity, and — most significantly — free public access to its Buildings at Risk register for the first time.
Family business
Jason Sayer2025-03-31T15:43:14+01:00Kate Quinlan, director at McLean Quinlan talks to AT about the virtues of having a family-run practice, why they moved the office to Winchester, and two new projects on the North Downs and in the US.
Rethinking Resi 2025
Jason Sayer2025-04-23T18:12:30+01:00Join us on Wednesday 23rd April to learn about the new housing types and new means of delivery being carried out by architects, clients and self-builders to address the housing crisis.