My Kind of Town: Manijeh Verghese
Isabel Allen2025-12-16T13:53:39+00:00Open City CEO Manijeh Verghese marvels at Mumbai's rapid transformation and asks how you can slow the pace of change to a rate that allows its people to shape its future.
Reflections: Chapel of Reconciliation
Nelly Greig2025-12-16T10:45:57+00:00John Pardey revisits de Blacam & Meagher’s Chapel of Reconciliation at Knock – a landmark of 20th century Irish Architecture – tracing its pilgrimage roots, profound materiality, and overarching influence on a new generation of Irish architects.
Five minutes with… OGU Architects
Nelly Greig2026-02-20T17:23:57+00:00AT catches up with Rachel O'Grady and Chris Upson to find out what's next for Belfast-based OGU Architects, and hear about their use of demountable structures to trial urban change, engaging communities in their city's future.
School of Specification – Materials Passports
AT Editor2025-12-09T16:42:06+00:00Rachel Hoolahan, Associate Director at Orms, has produced a School of Specification module on Materials Passports. She considers the advantages and challenges of implementing materials passports as well as how project teams can start using them.
A new future for Udaipur
Isabel Allen2025-12-03T10:02:28+00:00Ananya Singhal of Studio Saar explains his game plan to rescue his hometown of Udaipur, India, from the ravages of uncontrolled development and empower its residents to envisage – and insist on – a regenerative future.
Reflections: Ronchamp Chapel
Jason Sayer2025-12-02T15:04:15+00:00John Pardey on how Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel marked a revolutionary departure from his machine-age classicism — a sculptural, light-filled sanctuary where curved walls, hooded towers and a hovering roof reimagined the possibilities of modern sacred architecture.
Dispatches from Udaipur, India
Isabel Allen2025-12-04T12:37:44+00:00Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu chat to AT about the lessons to be learnt from rickshaws at rush hour, intergenerational households, and Krishnamurti's wise words.
Dispatches from Izmir, Turkey
Isabel Allen2025-11-29T15:26:07+00:00Office of Displaced Designers (ODD) is calling on UK construction professionals to support She Repairs, an initiative to help women in Izmir's displaced communities to provide their households with a safe and comfortable home.
School of Specification – Introduction to Specifications
AT Editor2025-11-13T09:56:03+00:00Nick Schumann shares some of the lessons learnt from a career as a leading expert on design management and specifications, particularly how they relate to costs, purchasing, risk management, and various construction contract types.
My Kind of Town: Ole Scheeren
Nelly Greig2025-11-25T14:54:32+00:00From childhood days spent wandering around his fathers architecture school, to his formative arrival in the city on Schenzhen, Ole Scheeren takes us through his three-decade-long relationship with China's tech capital, tracing it's evolution from fishing village to global megacity.
Dispatches from Dublin: John Tuomey, O’Donnell & Tuomey
Jason Sayer2026-02-20T17:21:33+00:00From the AT Schüco Dublin City Dialogue event, John Tuomey, who was recently awarded the RIAI Gandon Medal lifetime achievement award alongside Sheila O’Donnell, reflects on the barriers facing emerging Irish architectural talent, the need to build true neighbourhoods rather than unit numbers, and why he remains optimistic about the future of Irish architecture.
Still Standing: Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland, 2010
Nelly Greig2026-02-20T17:21:42+00:00Kevin Roche’s only completed commission in his home town survived bureaucratic infighting, spiralling budgets and public disdain to become a catalyst for the revival of Dublin’s Docklands as a thriving business district.