Tim James, National Specification Manager at VEKA, answers readers’ questions on balancing thermal performance and overheating when specifying windows and doors under Part L and Part O of the Building Regulations.
Gerry Hogan of Collective Architecture asks what it means to be a steward rather than an owner, embedding social and environmental responsibility in the practice’s legal structure, succession and everyday culture.
Bamboo: vegetable carbon fibre, climate solution and a British crop. Neil Thomas of Atelier One asks what we can learn from nature’s 400-million-year head start in engineering.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has completed the University of Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, creating a new civic gateway that brings teaching, research and public life together beside Temple Meads station.
What can a soap film teach us about concrete construction? Ian Poole of Elliott Wood discusses biomimicry, material reuse in a push to make structural engineering less extractive and more regenerative.
BakerBrown Studio, Collective Works, Groupwork, Webb Yates, UKGBC and Rowland Keable of Rammed Earth join the line-up at a seminar on whole life carbon and adaptive reuse delivered in partnership with HG Matthews on the morning of Tuesday 20th October as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Studio KO has transformed a 1912 tram depot and diesel station in Old Tashkent into Uzbekistan’s first permanent institution for contemporary art, retaining the character of the industrial complex while introducing new galleries, public spaces and facilities for research and cultural exchange.
From Broadgate to the studio garden and experimental earth construction, Tom Greenall and Nicole Abernethy of DSDHA explore how testing ideas at different scales can turn landscape, biodiversity and material innovation into everyday practice.
RIBA London Ethical Practice Special Interest Group to host a seminar entitled 'How Should We Innovate?' on the afternoon of Wednesday 7th October at the Building Centre in central London as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Oliver Cooke and Francis Fawcett, founders of Cooke Fawcett, discuss leaving Herzog & de Meuron, building a practice from scratch, and their evolving approach to heritage, retrofit and cultural projects.
Richard Dudzicki tells AT how cinema, Passivhaus principles and London’s constraints shape a practice focused on retaining what exists, using fewer resources and finding inventive ways to make lasting homes.
