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.
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.
With NHS trusts and their delivery partners under increasing pressure, a round table discussion, hosted by Architecture Today in partnership with IKO, explored whether healthcare procurement frameworks are delivering better buildings, and what is needed to improve design quality, collaboration and standardisation.
Find out which projects have made it to the finals of 2026 Architecture Today Test of Time Awards.
Projects by Sergison Bates, Bennetts Associates, Mary Duggan Architects with RUFF Architects, Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Adamson Associates, Haworth Tompkins, and Witherford Watson Mann Architects are in the running for this year’s Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building.
Moxon Architects has renovated Scotland's first dedicated mountain rescue base in the Cairngorms National Park, extending and refurbishing the facility to create a robust operational hub that improves welfare, training and emergency response while respecting the character of its rural surroundings.
