Opportunity: Queen Elizabeth II Memorial
Jason Sayer2024-12-12T16:38:54+00:00Architects and designers are invited to compete for the design of a lasting tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park.
M&S: Trigger for change
Jason Sayer2025-03-13T15:15:19+00:00Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, on why the M&S demolition decision exposes a broken planning system and how we need urgent reform to safeguard heritage assets and reduce embodied carbon emissions.
Dispatches from CRASH
Jason Sayer2024-12-06T10:40:34+00:00CRASH is appealing to UK architects for help with its vital work providing refurbishment and construction projects for adult homelessness and hospices for adults and children. CEO Trish Pickersgill explains how you can help.
Six Columns wins RIBA House of the Year 2024
AT Editor2024-12-02T12:17:59+00:00A highly adaptable family home in south London designed by 31/44 Architects has been named RIBA House of the Year 2024.
Still standing: Hundertwasserhaus Vienna, 1985
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-18T13:17:12+00:00
Designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Vienna’s most fanciful social housing project combines contempt for strait-jacketed Modernism with nostalgia for an imaginary past.
School of Specification – An introduction to natural and bio-based materials
AT Editor2024-11-27T12:25:20+00:00Ian Pritchett, co-founder and Growth & Innovation Director at Greencore Homes, has produced a module on natural and bio-based materials in sustainable construction for School of Specification. Here, he discusses the methodology behind carbon budgets and targets, and the importance of the ‘one planet living’ framework.
Modulus Matrix
AT Editor2024-11-27T12:35:01+00:00Peris + Toral Arquitectes’ radical social housing scheme in Cornellà , Spain, wins RIBA International Prize for world’s most transformative building.
School of Specification – Changes to the English planning system
AT Editor2024-11-26T15:59:43+00:00Katharine Woods, Associate Director at DP9, has produced a School of Specification learning module on changes to the English planning system. Here, she explores the nature of the new legislative changes, the effect they are having on architects and clients, and what to expect next.
Scottish building of the year announced
Jason Sayer2024-11-25T13:06:20+00:00The Burrell Collection, a Glaswegian gallery refurbished by John McAslan & Partners, has been named as Scotland’s building of the year.
Barriers to change: Assemble, Hopkins, ECD, and LOKI
Jason Sayer2024-11-20T10:32:16+00:00Assemble, Hopkins Architects, ECD Architects, and LOKI share their insights on the key issues hindering the transition to regenerative architecture.
My Kind of Town: John Pardey
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-11-19T16:33:37+00:00John Pardey is charmed by Louis Kahn's National Assembly building in Dhaka, Bangladesh and pays a flying visit to Le Corbusier's Chandigarh on the way home.
Dispatches: Studio Knight Stokoe on regenerative practice
Jason Sayer2024-12-09T10:09:52+00:00As a practice identified as one to watch in the Regenerative Architecture Index, we spoke to Studio Knight Stokoe about legally recognising the environment and society as stakeholders, becoming a B Corp, circadian rhythms, being resilient, regenerative, and empathic and fostering a zero-overtime culture.
