Broadfields Estate
Jason Sayer2025-10-09T15:46:12+01:00RCKa has completed 28 affordable rented apartments for Barnet Council within the Broadfields Estate in Edgware.
Reflections: The Crystal Palace
Jason Sayer2025-10-09T17:22:11+01:00John Pardey on how Joseph Paxton’s pioneering Crystal Palace for Great Exhibition of 1851 marked the end of millennia of masonry and timber construction, ushering in a new era of light, span and prefabrication that would redefine architecture in the age of industry.
Power Hall
Jason Sayer2025-12-23T12:30:49+00:00Carmody Groarke has completed the refurbishment of the Power Hall at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum, combining heritage restoration with decarbonisation measures to create a more accessible and environmentally efficient museum.
Dispatches from Shanghai: Rachaporn Choochuey
Jason Sayer2025-10-23T16:28:18+01:00Bangkok-based architect Rachaporn Choochuey, co-founder of all(zone), discusses her curatorial approach for the Rockbund Art Museum’s biennial festival of architectural thinking, RAM Assembles 2025. Titled Shanghai Picnic, the biennial explores how informal, spontaneous public life can be rekindled in one of Shanghai’s most meticulously restored and highly regulated urban environments.
Introducing the September-October 2025 issue of Architecture Today
Jason Sayer2025-10-13T09:26:52+01:00In this issue: The Regenerative Architecture Index 2025 unveiled; Material Cultures, Purcell, and Marks Barfield on regenerative practice; Collective Works and Jan Kattein Architects on creating a just space for people; and Beau Lotto on why Bruton is his kind of town.
ISoRaRA: the shortlist
Jason Sayer2025-10-02T15:45:30+01:00The Wildheart Trust has selected a shortlist of three practices from the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index to design the International School of Rewilding and Regenerative Agriculture at Sandown on the Isle of Wight: Marks Barfield Architects, BakerBrown Studio and Unknown Works. CEO Lawrence Bates explains what made the practices stand out.
The Court Theatre
Jason Sayer2025-09-30T18:03:17+01:00Haworth Tompkins and Athfield Architects’ theatre in central Christchurch brings New Zealand’s largest producing company back to the city centre, combining craft, performance, and community under one roof.
In pictures: The AT Awards Live Finals
Jason Sayer2025-12-23T11:04:39+00:00The 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.
Remembering Nick Grimshaw
Jason Sayer2025-09-24T07:44:33+01:00Grimshaw 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.”
Little Star Kindergarten
Jason Sayer2025-09-24T01:34:28+01:00A compact two-classroom building by ČTYŘSTĚN brings sheltered gardens, rooftop play space and vibrant interiors to a tight residential site in Šlapanice.
Dispatches from the lav: Hugh Broughton
Jason Sayer2025-12-23T11:05:21+00:00Hugh 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.
2025 RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist
Jason Sayer2025-09-09T09:15:31+01:00Six 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.