The Fold
AT Editor2024-10-31T09:36:05+00:00Wellness, flexibility, and climate resilience are central to Morrow + Lorraine’s careful reworking of a former Victorian furniture depository in west London.
Enhanced sustainability is black and white (and colourful too)
AT Editor2024-10-28T09:45:11+00:00HIMACS solid surface in iconic Alpine White, together many other colours, is now SCS certified for recycled content.
The sanctuary of home
AT Editor2024-12-16T16:08:20+00:00What are the key issues and challenges affecting today’s housing market, and how are these influencing the latest thinking in bathroom design? These questions were addressed by a panel of experts at a round table discussion in London hosted by Architecture Today and VitrA.
Turning rainscreen designs into real world performance
AT Editor2024-10-25T08:10:51+01:00Luke Davies, Rock Mineral Wool Product Manager for Knauf Insulation, looks at how architects can specify rainscreens that deliver on their designed performance.
AIM fire stop blocks now tested for wider applications
AT Editor2024-10-24T08:36:34+01:00AIM fire stop blocks now tested for wider applications
School of Specification – An introduction to the Passivhaus methodology
AT Editor2024-10-21T16:29:48+01:00Ian Pritchett, co-founder and Growth & Innovation Director at Greencore Homes, has produced a School of Specification module exploring Passivhaus methodology. Here, he considers the main Passivhaus principles and how architects should approach them.
Ask the expert: Maximising data flows, collaboration, and sustainability within CAD
AT Editor2025-01-07T12:07:58+00:00Luka Stefanovic, Senior Architecture Industry Specialist at Vectorworks, in conversation with AT Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discusses how Vectorworks software can maximise dataflows, collaborative working, and environmental design performance within architectural practice.
Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
AT Editor2024-10-23T14:46:47+01:00
Howells, Orms, Useful Simple Trust, Sheppard Robson, and We Made That are among the practices providing evidence of a progressive Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policy.
Equity for salaries and overtime
AT Editor2024-10-21T09:20:51+01:00
Practices, including Tonic Architecture, Gale & Snowden Architects, Elliott Wood, and Collective Works, discuss their approach to overtime culture, meeting the living wage, and salary ratio between staff.
Supporting charities, community groups, social enterprises, action groups and others
AT Editor2024-10-21T09:20:26+01:00
Practices, including ECD, PRP, Morrow + Lorraine, and Worldchanging Institute, discuss how they support charities, community groups, social enterprises, and action groups through pro-bono work and charitable giving.
Refusing to work on ethical grounds
AT Editor2024-10-21T09:19:39+01:00
Marks Barfield Architects, Grain Architecture, JTP, and HLM Architects discuss why they refuse to work with certain clients, suppliers or organisations on ethical grounds.
Demonstrating deep engagement with local stakeholders and end users
AT Editor2024-10-23T14:48:12+01:00
Human Nature, ECD Architects, White Arkitekter, and Sheppard Robson, are among the practices whose projects demonstrate deep engagement with local stakeholders and end users.