John Pardey on how Joseph Paxton’s pioneering Crystal Palace for Great Exhibition of 1851 marked the end of millennia of masonry and timber construction, ushering in a new era of light, span and prefabrication that would redefine architecture in the age of industry.
Bangkok-based architect Rachaporn Choochuey, co-founder of all(zone), discusses her curatorial approach for the Rockbund Art Museum’s biennial festival of architectural thinking, RAM Assembles 2025. Titled Shanghai Picnic, the biennial explores how informal, spontaneous public life can be rekindled in one of Shanghai’s most meticulously restored and highly regulated urban environments.
Beau Lotto on how Bruton's unique mix of culture and community fosters discovery and connection – and why this small Somerset town provides the perfect setting for a new kind of school rooted in interaction, meaning and curiosity.
An event celebrating the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI), hosted by UK Architects Declare and Architecture Today in partnership with Schüco, took place on 2 October at Broadway Malyan’s London office.
Grimshaw Partners Andrew Whalley and Neven Sidor reflect on Nick Grimshaw’s pragmatism and quirks, and recall conversations after “several hours and several rounds of scotch and dry ginger.”
Six projects by Witherford Watson Mann Architects, Purcell, Hugh Strange Architects, Allies and Morrison, Takero Shimazaki Architects, and Herzog & de Meuron with BDP are in the running for this year’s Stirling Prize for the best new project in the UK.
IKO PLC is a new sponsor of the AT Awards. Find out more about the company and hear Marcus Lee, a director at the company below.
Younha Rhee, Technical Director at Atelier Ten, has produced a School of Specification module on Space House – a major adaptive reuse project in London. Here, she discusses the scheme’s environmental strategies, how onsite challenges were overcome, and what lessons were learnt.
AT chats to Dan Meis, a specialist in sports stadia and architect behind Everton FC's new Hill Dickinson Stadium as he reveals why fans hug him in the street and why he has a club tattoo.
John Pardey on Jørn Utzon’s Bagsværd Church, Copenhagen (1976) – a rectilinear, industrial-looking building that conceals a sequence of vaulted concrete ‘clouds’ inspired by nature.
AT chats to Emma McNicholas and Chris Shiels, directors at OOBE – one of a select band of landscape architects who have taken part in the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index.
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.
