Mike Russum of Birds Portchmouth Russum and his wife Sally Cox share the joys of a home that is inspired by fighter planes, boat-building and the Arizona desert, and which won the Individual House Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025.
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has reworked and extended a 1980s office building in London’s Spitalfields, retaining 88 per cent of its structure to deliver a low-carbon, contextually-responsive workplace.
USA SHADE discusses how shade structures and climate-responsive design can support safer, more resilient playgrounds throughout the year.
Dawn Scott, Senior Colour Designer & Inclusive Design Lead at Dulux, has produced a School of Specification module on specifying colour. Here she discusses colour theory and perception, as well as the benefits of using the Dulux colour notation system.
Cindy Walters from Walters & Cohen Architects and Wan Fan, Vice Chair of the Governors at Regent High School, discuss the reworked Camden school, which won the Education Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025, and was a ‘labour of love’ that transformed the community it serves.
Shigeru Ban on his new concert hall in Switzerland which takes the form of a piggy bank, paper tube architecture, and why architects should stop talking about sustainability and start reducing waste.
Goldstein Heather has skilfully reworked a narrow, end-of-terrace Victorian house in Stamford Brook, creating a light-filled, interconnected family home, designed to support multigenerational living.
Cindy Walters from Walters & Cohen Architects and Maitreyabandhu from the London Buddhist Centre discuss the challenge of communicating the Buddhist vision to the modern world through the Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre – winner of the Religion & Culture Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025.
John Pardey on Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus in Dessau – a crystalline composition of glass, concrete and functionally ordered forms that transformed a new school of design into the built manifesto of a revolution in modern architecture, industry and education.
Collective Architecture's Jude Barber and Gerry Hogan on championing Scotland as a great place to invest and living by the mantra that a rising tide lifts all boats.
Duncan Cox from Cundall discusses the role of the consultant in initiating important conversations and not walking away from clients because they don't act on good advice.
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has been awarded the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize for work that explores fragility, cultural memory and material experimentation, creating buildings that are at once elemental, enigmatic and deeply human.
