The Architecture Today Awards Live Finals saw 30 projects presented in front of a live audience including the jury. Here's how the day panned out and what those involved had to say.
Grimshaw Partners Andrew Whalley and Neven Sidor reflect on Nick Grimshaw’s pragmatism and quirks, and recall conversations after “several hours and several rounds of scotch and dry ginger.”
A compact two-classroom building by ČTYŘSTĚN brings sheltered gardens, rooftop play space and vibrant interiors to a tight residential site in Šlapanice.
Hugh Broughton Architects is refurbishing eight public toilet blocks across central London. Hugh Broughton discusses procurement complexities, design lessons, integrating public art, and the wider debates around safety, inclusivity, and gender-neutral provision – as well as his top five toilets.
Six projects by Witherford Watson Mann Architects, Purcell, Hugh Strange Architects, Allies and Morrison, Takero Shimazaki Architects, and Herzog & de Meuron with BDP are in the running for this year’s Stirling Prize for the best new project in the UK.
IKO PLC is a new sponsor of the AT Awards. Find out more about the company and hear Marcus Lee, a director at the company below.
A little box of fun: Carmody Groarke reinterprets John Soane’s Dulwich Picture gallery through new a new pavilion that knits together the gallery's landscape while providing new spaces for learning and play.
Bennetts Associates has completed a major renewal of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, a project more than a decade in the making. Rory Olcayto, who spent his formative years in Glasgow, visits a building that once bottled the city’s wild energy.
AHMM and TiggColl complete a new flexible living and mixed-use development on the Grand Union Canal in West London.
Julius Nielsen’s timber sanctuary in Copenhagen makes use of Dinesen Douglas fir to create a modest but enduring community space.
AT chats to Dan Meis, a specialist in sports stadia and architect behind Everton FC's new Hill Dickinson Stadium as he reveals why fans hug him in the street and why he has a club tattoo.
John Pardey on Jørn Utzon’s Bagsværd Church, Copenhagen (1976) – a rectilinear, industrial-looking building that conceals a sequence of vaulted concrete ‘clouds’ inspired by nature.
