South Barn
Nelly Greig2025-09-16T23:56:50+01:00Studio Weave's recent conversion of a mid-20th Century barn into a family home near Cowes on the Isle of Wight is a model for how rural buildings can be reimagined without erasure.
Citizenship as a Verb
Nelly Greig2025-08-27T09:21:36+01:00Through philosophy, design and community led projects, Leela Keshav explores what it means to treat citizenship as a verb, and explains how this can support us in reshaping cities through participation, accountability and care.
Kieran Hawkins
Nelly Greig2025-08-11T11:27:25+01:00In Edinburgh’s gritty, ever-changing Leith, a new kind of architecture is taking place. It’s low-tech, hands-on, and entirely regenerative. From hempcrete mixed like porridge to screw-pile foundations and low-carbon concrete, Kieran Hawkins, founder of Cairn, proves that small material changes, collaborative building, and clear values can drive big shifts in how, and why, we build.
Barbora Vanek
Nelly Greig2025-07-21T11:52:58+01:00Barbora Vanek is one of AHMM's five Building Performance Specialists. As the only one based in their Bristol office, she speaks to AT about the privilege of working across such a broad architectural portfolio; from challenges to triumphs.
One Pool Street, UCL East
Nelly Greig2025-07-22T14:51:36+01:00Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands's gateway building to UCL's new East campus in Queen Elizabeth's Olympic Park combines student accommodation with a range of learning spaces that blur conventional boundaries between education and civic life.
Vyšehrad Railway Bridge
Nelly Greig2025-07-10T13:57:08+01:00AT speaks to civil engineer Ian Firth, who has challenged demolition threats of Prague’s Vyšehrad Railway Bridge with a proposal to restore the landmark, upgrading its infrastructure for modern rail demands. With UNESCO now backing its protection, the bridge becomes a test case in how cities can balance progress with preservation.
New Practice (part of Civic)
Nelly Greig2025-07-11T14:48:28+01:00By engaging early with clients, being honest about what's possible and embedding co-design throughout the project lifecycle, Glasgow's New Practice (part of Civic) are challenging extractive traditions in a movement towards restorative and regenerative architecture.
Arklow Wastewater Treatment Plant
Nelly Greig2025-06-16T12:40:13+01:00
Clancy Moore Architects’ wastewater treatment plant at Arklow, County Wicklow, transforms a vital piece of infrastructure into a civic landmark – balancing pragmatism with poetic expression on a prominent coastal site.
The Briggait
Nelly Greig2025-08-22T12:28:07+01:00
A landmark of Glasgow's industrial past, The Briggait has long stood as a gateway between the city's medieval Merchant City and the River Clyde. Now, thanks to an ambitious refurbishment by Collective Architecture, two of its historic market halls have been restored, rekindling a vital connection to the river and the distinctive cultural landscape beyond.
Anthony Grimshaw Associates
Nelly Greig2025-06-04T09:58:39+01:00Three years after the practice's 60th anniversary, AT hears from Anthony Grimshaw Associates: the sister-run practice at the forefront of the North-West's conservation battle with crumbling churches and lack of public funding.
Red Cow Terrace
Nelly Greig2025-05-30T17:25:39+01:00Bold in ambition, but compromised in delivery, Office S&M’s terrace of three family homes in a Hertfordshire village shows how commercial reality can dilute good ideas. Ellen Peirson applauds the bravery of a riposte to standard developer housing that has survived against the odds.
Still Standing: Torre Velasca, Milan, 1958
Nelly Greig2025-05-30T16:42:02+01:00
An emblem of Milan’s rough lovability, BBPR’s Torre Velasca was inspired by traditional Lombard architecture and contempt for the reductive, repetitive Modernism that was on the march worldwide.