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 Sayer2025-04-08T17:43:52+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.
Project Orange
Isabel Allen2025-04-02T12:08:15+01:00From regenerative design to material rationing, Christopher Ash and James Soane from Project Orange explore the urgent need for a paradigm shift in how we build, renovate, and engage with communities.
SAVE’s Buildings at Risk Register now open to the public
Jason Sayer2025-04-02T10:55:05+01:00SAVE Britain’s Heritage has marked its 50th anniversary with the launch of a new website, refreshed graphic identity, and — most significantly — free public access to its Buildings at Risk register for the first time.
Family business
Jason Sayer2025-03-31T15:43:14+01:00Kate Quinlan, director at McLean Quinlan talks to AT about the virtues of having a family-run practice, why they moved the office to Winchester, and two new projects on the North Downs and in the US.
Studio 8FOLD
Jason Sayer2025-06-04T10:03:01+01:00Aleks Stojakovic and Alexander Frehse, co-founders of Studio 8FOLD, discuss teaching students on site in South Africa, building with rammed earth, reusing timber and how clients react when asked what sustainability means to them.
Dispatches from Barcelona: ‘MINERAL. Architects of Urban Mining’ Competition launch
Nelly Greig2025-06-04T10:03:01+01:00AT speaks to Dani Alsina, Director of Innovation at BIMSA, about why they are challenging international practitioners to design a new method for material reuse in the wake of the 2026 International Union of Architects Congress.
