Dispatches from UKREiiF: Rob Wheaton
Isabel Allen2025-05-27T11:12:50+01:00AT chats to Rob Wheaton from Stride Treglown about Tai ar y Crd – a pattern book for the efficient delivery of housing using local materials and skills.
Dispatches from UKREiiF: Jerry Tate
Isabel Allen2025-05-20T17:18:52+01:00AT chats to Jerry Tate about tracking down brilliant clients, taking advice from Joe Morris and why UKREiiF is more fun than MIPIM.
Dispatches from UKREiiF: Mellis Haward
Isabel Allen2025-05-20T17:18:52+01:00AT chats to Mellis Haward from Archio about finding the formula for healthy competition, housing nerdery and organised fun – and the secret of a good pub quiz.
Dispatches from UKREiiF: JJ Lorraine
Isabel Allen2025-05-20T17:18:52+01:00AT chats to JJ Lorraine from Morrow + Lorraine about persuading the GLA and local authorities to divert S106 budgets towards trainees, the joys of 'plug-and-play' and 'desk-to-bed' and submitting ideas to paper in the middle of the night.
Can you grow an underwater auditorium? Michael Pawlyn is giving it a go
Nelly Greig2025-05-19T15:21:28+01:00Director of Exploration Architecture Michael Pawlyn talks to AT about the vision behind 'Biorock Pavilion' — developed with Adam Holloway Architects, Arup and Charcoal Blue and exhibited at this year's Venice Biennale.
Dispatches from FOOTPRINT+: Michelle Sanchez
Jason Sayer2025-05-21T08:26:02+01:00Michelle Sanchez, Sustainability Lead at RSHP, shares insights from this year’s FOOTPRINT+ conference, reflecting on circularity, climate resilience, and RSHP’s efforts to integrate reuse and regenerative practice into mainstream design.
Designing a city? Start with children
Jason Sayer2025-06-04T10:03:01+01:00Architects, urbanists and advocates Tim Gill, Dinah Bornat, Petra Marko and Jonny Anstead reflect on the growing international movement for child-centred urban planning, speaking at the 'Start with Children' summit in Bratislava.
Dispatches from FOOTPRINT+: David Partridge
Jason Sayer2025-05-14T16:32:30+01:00David Partridge, Chair of the Governance Board for the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, shares insights from Footprint+ on embedding the standard into everyday practice and the growing seriousness with which the industry is tackling carbon and circularity.
Dispatches from FOOTPRINT+: Tim Pyne
Jason Sayer2025-05-14T16:04:50+01:00Tim Pyne, co-founder of FOOTPRINT+, reflects on how circular construction has moved from theory to practice — and why the event’s move to London is paying off.
Principles for Responsible Timber Construction – and a call for entries for Built by Nature’s 2025 Prize
Isabel Allen2025-05-16T16:07:07+01:00Anna Lisa McSweeney, UK Network Lead at Built by Nature, introduces the Principles for Responsible Timber Construction and calls on architects to submit their projects for BbN's new global prize.
Reflections: National Bank of Denmark
Jason Sayer2025-05-20T22:40:45+01:00Architect John Pardey looks back on Arne Jacobsen’s National Bank of Denmark as the Danish master’s most complete gesamtkunstwerk – a building that distils the same unity, elegance and precision found in his iconic furniture.
Dispatches from Venice: Latvian pavilion
Jason Sayer2025-05-13T20:32:59+01:00AT talks to... Liene Jākobsone and Ilka Ruby, co-curators of the Latvian pavilion in Venice titled 'Landscape of Defence', which sheds light on what life is like living on the edge of a NATO military border.