From their base in a refurbished victorian school in central Glasgow, Hamilton Hay Van Jonker speak to AT about their love of continuity and change, 'Speed Mentoring', and what it's like to work as 'one chapter in a building's long history'.
In this issue: Becca Thomas visits O'DonnellBrown's Millport Town Hall on the Isle of Cumbrae, Metropolitan Workshop's Neil Deely sets out a vision for the densification and reinvention of our suburbs, Still Standing: Robert A.M Stern's 15 Central Park West, We Made That's Tom Fox features in Reinventing Practice, Materials Library with dMFK, and Piers Taylor's Sydney in My Kind of Town. And much more!
Having scored the highest of any UK-based architecture practice when receiving B-corp certification in 2024, Barr Gazetas is reinventing practice by proving commercial retrofit can be radically ethical, delivering lasting value for clients, communities and the public realm.
On the banks of the River Liffey, Dublin's first public watersports centre by Urban Agency, transforms a stretch of the North Quay into an accessible and resilient public space, recasting the river as an active and usable asset to the city.
Construction of Kamuzu University of Health Sciences’ dental school by John McAslan + Partners has begun, becoming Malawi’s first faculty of its kind.
Lawrence and Long Architects reimagine traditional approaches to constrained mew sites by carving an internal courtyard from a square, timber structure, creating a house nested around a garden: carefully balancing privacy and openness in a tight urban setting.
Based in rural Donegal, but shaped by decades of life and work across Europe, Sosie Pasparakis and Ronan Friel reflect on listening as a design tool, the quiet intelligence of a rural practice, and how memory, landscape and craft meet in projects that sit lightly and thoughtfully in their landscape.
Belfast Central Station by John McAslan + Partners opens to the public, supporting 20 million journeys annually as the largest integrated transport hub in Northern Ireland.
For more than two decades, London based practice Chance de Silva has pursued the question of what happens when art and architecture evolve simultaneously. With a design method shaped through collaboration with musicians, performance artists, painters and filmmakers, their recently completed project continues this enquiry, but this time, the collaborator is the city itself.
AT chats to Tom Badger about how Newham Council is steering Canning Town’s major regeneration, balancing industrial intensification, housing growth, green infrastructure, and inclusive, community-led development.
Studio Weave’s Woolwich Market Pavilion and Gardens on Beresford Square in south-east London sensitively stitches together a mixed-use setting through accessible, communal spaces.
John Pardey revisits de Blacam & Meagher’s Chapel of Reconciliation at Knock – a landmark of 20th century Irish Architecture – tracing its pilgrimage roots, profound materiality, and overarching influence on a new generation of Irish architects.
