The future of the built environment demands more than sustainability. For years, those in the built environment have focused on reducing harm by lowering carbon, improving energy performance and cutting waste. Those ambitions remain vital, but today's environmental and social challenges demand something more.
Duncan Baker-Brown, Tom Cuthbert, and Hannah Foreman discuss the practice’s circular approach to materiality, from urban mining and harvest mapping to designing buildings as future material stores.
A trio of conical timber roofs crowns Burgess Architects' compact community cabin in Feltham, creating a distinctive civic landmark from a modest footprint.
Axo Architects has designed a Benedictine monastery on the edge of Pollacappul Lough in Connemara, County Galway – the first female monastery to be built in Ireland for over 400 years. Cormac Murray enjoys the understated confidence of a contemplative building informed by a nuanced response to context and a long-standing relationship between architect and client.
Rising from the landscape beside Yanzi Lake, Shenzhen Natural History Museum by 3XN, B+H Architects and Zhubo Design establishes a new cultural landmark for South China while blurring the boundaries between museum, landscape and public space.
TaylorHare’s low-lying family home in East Sussex brings together a series of corrugated metal volumes and sheltered courtyards, embedding the building within its woodland setting.
Moxon Architects has renovated Scotland's first dedicated mountain rescue base in the Cairngorms National Park, extending and refurbishing the facility to create a robust operational hub that improves welfare, training and emergency response while respecting the character of its rural surroundings.
Mosley Thorold’s transformation of a Victorian townhouse in east London reshapes the home around light, movement and materiality, employing carefully reconfigured interiors with reclaimed craftwork to create a calm retreat for everyday living and entertaining.
Assemble has transformed a pair of former United Dairies warehouses on the Becontree Estate in Dagenham into a flexible community hub for LifeLine Church and Community Resources.
Office S&M has turned a dark Victorian townhouse in Kensington into a light-filled home for two art collectors. A three-storey rear extension, bespoke architectural interventions and commissioned artworks combine to create a house that functions equally as a family home and a carefully curated gallery.
RAI members are invited to join Timothy Soar's free-to-attend photography workshop at one of the UK's most iconic Art Deco seaside buildings – and enjoy a bespoke walking tour of the architectural highlights of St Leonard's-on-Sea.
