Through 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.
In 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 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.
Lifschutz 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.
AT 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.
By 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.
Three 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.
Bold 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.
Alasdair Ben Dixon of Collective Works shares why regenerative design is about far more than environmental performance - it's about restoring communities, embracing collaboration over competition and aligning purpose with practice.
