Tom Bennett
Nelly Greig2025-04-28T13:27:23+01:00Tom Bennett, Director of Studio Bark, speaks to AT about their bespoke carbon analysis tools and U-Build's new acoustic interior partition, 'U-What'.
Dispatches from Bath: architect in residence, Bob Allies
Jason Sayer2025-10-23T16:37:26+01:00AT talks to... Bob Allies, partner at Allies and Morrison, who, reflects on his evolving role as 'architect in residence' for the City of Bath, working across council departments to enhance design quality, foster collaboration, and demonstrate the value of architectural insight in shaping the city.
Reflections: Grande Arche de la Défense
Jason Sayer2025-04-22T22:14:32+01:00John Pardey on Johan Otto von Spreckelsen's La Grande Arche in Paris (1989) – a monumental, yet elegant building laced with symbolism that was part of President Mitterand's Grands Projets.
One month to go until FOOTPRINT+ 2025
Isabel Allen2025-04-15T09:32:45+01:00Watch: Footprint founders Tim Pyne and Emily Day talk to AT Editor Isabel Allen about striking a balance between producing an influential conference and throwing the best party in town.
Meet the client: Lloyd Lee, Yoo Capital
Jason Sayer2025-04-11T15:19:06+01:00Lloyd Lee, Managing Partner at Yoo Capital discusses the company’s investment in Olympia and Camden, reflecting a bold belief in London’s enduring global appeal – and what makes a successful architect-client relationship for him.
My Kind of Town: Tom Lacey
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-04-11T16:08:52+01:00Tom Lacey explains how London's Olympic Park has evolved into a thriving neighbourhood, but kept the wild, unpolished spaces that are a respite from city life.
AD agenda: co-design and just spaces for people
Jason Sayer2025-04-10T11:31:56+01:00Tom Greenall introduces DSDHA's Co-Design website and explains how achieving meaningful participation in co-design can serve as a transformative tool to address the complex, intersecting crises shaping our built environment.
Dispatches from Uzbekistan: Hakan Agca
Jason Sayer2025-10-23T16:37:37+01:00AT talks to Hakan Agca, founder and managing director of Cross Works in London, a practice that recently won a competition to design a new city of two million people across 25,000 hectares next to Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent.
Still standing: Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, 1921
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-04-14T14:48:15+01:00
Hollyhock House lived up to Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of a building “comfortable to live in well, with true pride in itself” but was beset by disagreements with his mercurial client.
Tonkin Liu
Nelly Greig2025-04-28T13:25:30+01:00Tonkin Liu’s studio is shaped by nature. From watching light change over the seasons to collecting seeds on their travels, Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu share how reconnecting with the rhythms of the natural world is key to designing for the long term.
School of Specification – Security through laminated glass
AT Editor2025-04-07T15:11:48+01:00Allan Gibson, AIS Global Product/Marketing Segment Manager at Kuraray Europe, has produced a School of Specification module exploring security using laminated glass. Here, he considers the main security threats for glazing and what can be done to mitigate them.
Introducing the March-April 2025 issue of Architecture Today
Isolde Brampton-Greene2025-04-10T17:18:18+01:00In this issue: Unboxed Homes’ Blenheim Grove in Peckham, Keith Williams Architects’ De Valera Library and Súil Gallery in Ireland, Materials library with Alison Brooks Architects, Roz Barr Architects’ Courtyard Houses in Surrey, dRMM on the benefits of mass timber, and more.