Pitched Passive House
Jason Sayer2024-10-30T12:49:09+00:00In Dulwich, southeast London, RDA Architects has finished a new build home that is PassivHaus certified and in sync with the area’s Arts & Crafts vernacular.
Enlightening architecture
AT Editor2024-10-31T15:42:52+00:00The Rooflight Co explores the art of flat roof buildings and the key role rooflights can play in maximising environmental and aesthetic performance.
Collaborative façade design: Norton Folgate by AHMM
AT Editor2024-10-31T16:13:52+00:00Project leaders from Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM), Eckersley O’Callaghan, Lindner Prater, and Schüco discuss the collaborative processes and technical challenges behind the multiple façades on the acclaimed Norton Folgate development in London, with AT’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw.
Dispatches: Vickie Hayward
Jason Sayer2024-10-29T16:27:11+00:00Cultural strategist and founder of ‘Company, Place’ Vickie Hayward talks to AT about the role of art in placemaking and a new multi-disciplinary programme linking art and science at the University of Oxford’s Begbroke Innovation District, informing a masterplan by Hawkins\Brown.
Perry Vale House
Jason Sayer2024-10-28T16:10:33+00:00Wellstudio Architecture has reimagined an Arts & Crafts home in Forest Hill, creating a light-filled extension that riffs on the home’s heritage.
Enhanced sustainability is black and white (and colourful too)
AT Editor2024-10-28T09:45:11+00:00HIMACS solid surface in iconic Alpine White, together many other colours, is now SCS certified for recycled content.
The sanctuary of home
AT Editor2024-12-16T16:08:20+00:00What are the key issues and challenges affecting today’s housing market, and how are these influencing the latest thinking in bathroom design? These questions were addressed by a panel of experts at a round table discussion in London hosted by Architecture Today and VitrA.
Turning rainscreen designs into real world performance
AT Editor2024-10-25T08:10:51+01:00Luke Davies, Rock Mineral Wool Product Manager for Knauf Insulation, looks at how architects can specify rainscreens that deliver on their designed performance.
AT Awards Winners to be announced at Battersea Power Station
Jason Sayer2024-10-22T16:16:01+01:00The 2024 AT Awards Winners' Party will be held at Battersea Power Station in southwest London. See the winners revealed inside the historic Control Room A, formerly the power station's switchboard and primary point of command.
Inclusive education: Heathlands School
Jason Sayer2024-10-28T17:29:09+00:00Manalo & White and Richard Lyndon Design have completed a new learning environment tailored for deaf and visually impaired students at the St Albans-based Heathlands School.
School of Specification – An introduction to the Passivhaus methodology
AT Editor2024-10-21T16:29:48+01:00Ian Pritchett, co-founder and Growth & Innovation Director at Greencore Homes, has produced a School of Specification module exploring Passivhaus methodology. Here, he considers the main Passivhaus principles and how architects should approach them.