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 Sayer2025-12-23T12:13:14+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 Sayer2025-10-23T16:41:03+01:00As 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.
Introducing the November-December 2024 issue of Architecture Today
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-09T10:09:16+00:00In this issue: Hundertwasser's virtues hold strong 40 years later, the consequences for non-compliance with ARB and RIBA's CPD shake-up, Chris Dyson on the restored and reworked historic buildings in Spitalfields' Norton Folgate scheme, how Tuckey Design Studio has turned a 16th century Somerset wool hall into a recording studio and home, and much more.
Barriers to change: Max Fordham, Bond Bryan, Sheppard Robson and New Works
Jason Sayer2024-11-14T10:35:16+00:00Max Fordham, Bond Bryan, Sheppard Robson and New Works share their insights on the key issues hindering the transition to regenerative architecture.
2024 Brick Awards
AT Editor2024-11-11T17:08:30+00:00
The Norton Folgate development in London by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Stanton Williams, Morris+Company, DSDHA, and EAST wins the Supreme Award at this year's Brick Awards run by the Brick Development Association.