Future Build: How Construction Can Heal Our Planet
Isabel Allen2026-08-24T09:31:10+01:00Environmentalist and engineer Will Arnold launches the first public-facing non-fiction book on regenerative design at Regenerative Design 2026.
Yukta Chegu wins 2026 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
AT Editor2026-08-20T11:31:04+01:00University of Bath student Yukta Chegu has won the 2026 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship for research exploring what global construction can learn from India’s informal material salvage economies.
Help the client: beyond business as usual
Isabel Allen2026-08-21T11:46:14+01:00Beau Lotto of Hummingbird Learning Lab, Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio and Julia Barfield of Marks Barfield Architects are hosting an interactive brainstorm at Regenerative Design 2026, exploring how to help clients get radical projects off the ground and challenge the conventions that hinder collaborative, regenerative design.
New Story Garden
AT Editor2026-08-17T15:14:49+01:00Jan Kattein Architects and Global Generation have transformed a former railway storage site at London’s King’s Cross into a permanent ecology garden, built from natural and reclaimed materials with the help of more than 3,000 volunteers.
My Kind of Town: Farid Esmaeil
Isabel Allen2026-08-17T11:12:25+01:00For X Architects founding partner Farid Esmaeil, Dubai is an extraordinary laboratory with a climate that demands a careful approach to materiality and passive design and a confidence that invites you to test ideas, challenge conventions and imagine architecture in new ways.
Regenerative Design takes to Radio 4
Isabel Allen2026-08-17T14:14:53+01:00RIBA President Elect Jay Morton, Architecture Today Editor Isabel Allen and author and historian Barnabas Calder discuss housing and regenerative design with Tom Heap and Helen Czerski on Radio 4's Rare Earth.
Visit the Bears at Wildheart at Regenerative Design 2026
Isabel Allen2026-08-14T14:44:29+01:00Real-time real-size live footage of two bears rescued from captivity and re-housed at the Wildheart Animal Sanctuary will be on display at the Regenerative Design 2026 throughout October, celebrating an on-going collaboration between Wildheart and the RAI.
Don’t miss the Reinventing Practice exhibition at Regenerative Design 2026
Isabel Allen2026-08-14T08:38:41+01:00An exhibition of photographic portraits and interviews focusing on members of the Regenerative Architecture Index offers an insight into practices and organisations working to accelerate the transition to regenerative design.
Tollymore
Nelly Greig2026-08-18T12:41:22+01:00Set on a steep triangular site above the Shimna river in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, McGonigle McGrath's Tollymore house steps six separate volumes down towards the water, trading the conventional continuity of a family home for a domestic landscape that rests in the spaces between nature and dwelling.
Tournesol swimming pool
AT Editor2026-08-13T16:58:44+01:00Studio Arcos B has reworked one of France’s distinctive 1970s Tournesol swimming pools, preserving Bernard Schoeller’s prefabricated domed structure as the centrepiece of a more sustainable and accessible leisure complex.
The death of the architectural ego
Jason Sayer2026-08-14T08:49:20+01:00Laura Baron, Head of Sustainability at Purcell, calls for architects to set aside ego and embrace their role as custodians, working collaboratively to preserve, adapt and enrich the places and communities entrusted to their care.
Neil Thomas announced as keynote speaker at Regenerative Design 2026
Isabel Allen2026-08-14T08:40:49+01:00The founder of the world's most innovative structural engineering firm Neil Thomas of Atelier One will share his research and thinking about the lessons trees can teach us about structural design at an evening talk on Wednesday 21st October.