Under the ninth generation of architectural leadership Antoni Gaudí’s Gothic masterpiece was finally inaugurated by Pope Leo XIV in June. So why does the world’s best-known construction project still seem curiously incomplete?
Sam Morley, Senior Associate at Hawkins, has produced a School of Specification module exploring forensic fire safety. Here, he discusses how fire investigations reveal building defects and the lessons architects can learn from them.
Regenerative Design 2026 brings the built environment together to turn ambition into action at The Building Centre in London from 1–30 October.
Sole practitioner Marcus Lee of LEEP Architects talks to AT about materials investigation, experimentation, designing for change and an 'agri-industrial' ethos that celebrates the raw aesthetic of agricultural infrastructure.
Janie Mullaney of Equitone argues that greater transparency, earlier collaboration and better procurement can deliver social housing that is both safe and architecturally distinctive.
The Glasgow School of Art is expected to replace Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s fire-damaged masterpiece with a contemporary building behind retained sections of its historic façade.
Projects by Sergison Bates, Bennetts Associates, Mary Duggan Architects with RUFF Architects, Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Adamson Associates, Haworth Tompkins, and Witherford Watson Mann Architects are in the running for this year’s Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building.
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Knauf UK, exploring how tall buildings can balance fire safety, acoustic and thermal comfort, environmental performance, regulatory compliance and resident wellbeing.
Publisher Torsten Bløndal and architecture professor Thomas Bo Jensen have joined forces to produce a compendium of the paintings, sculptures and buildings of Danish artist, poet, sculptor and film maker Per Kirkeby. John Pardey enjoys a lyrical tour through an eclectic portfolio rooted in love for the humble brick.
Stefano Boeri’s Parliament of Living Species transforms Milan’s council chamber into a forum where non-human life is given a political voice, challenging conventional approaches to urban planning by asking how cities might be designed if animals, insects and ecosystems were represented alongside people.
Studio Saar and Atelier One's landmark pavilion for the London Design Festival reinterprets traditional Indian shields to create a bamboo canopy that explores protection, power, displacement and cultural exchange in the heart of the capital.
John Pardey revisits Alvar Aalto’s Säynätsalo Town Hall in Finland, a building founded in history, landscape and civic life, and one of the architect’s most consummate works.
