Breathing space
AT Editor2026-01-14T16:34:21+00:00As indoor air quality rises up the agenda for architects, Johnstone’s Trade discusses how smarter paint and coating specifications can contribute to healthier buildings long after completion.
Purcell
Isabel Allen2026-01-13T15:10:50+00:00Purcell discusses the challenges involved in maintaining and adapting our built heritage to meet the needs of today whilst planning for a more resilient tomorrow.
The Regenerative Architecture Index 2026 is open for entries
Jason Sayer2026-01-19T09:24:59+00:00If you are actively engaging with regenerative principles, or setting out a clear, accountable pathway beyond sustainability, we encourage you to take part. Find out more, including how to enter, here.
School of Specification – Fire Safety for Principal Designers
AT Editor2026-01-13T14:17:46+00:00Simón Santamaria, Technical Development Director at Stantec, has produced a School of Specification module on fire safety for principal designers. Here he explores the distinction between compliance and conformity, as well as the tools for evaluating competence and quality in fire safety design.
London Fields West
Nelly Greig2026-01-13T15:12:02+00:00For more than two decades, London based practice Chance de Silva has pursued the question of what happens when art and architecture evolve simultaneously. With a design method shaped through collaboration with musicians, performance artists, painters and filmmakers, their recently completed project continues this enquiry, but this time, the collaborator is the city itself.
The Float House
AT Editor2026-01-12T09:23:59+00:00TiggColl’s modular floating house on the Grand Union Canal reimagines waterside living through sustainable materials, accessible design, and an ingenious system of interlocking steel hulls.
Designing for play in the city
Jason Sayer2026-01-09T17:17:50+00:00Susanne Tutsch, founding director of Root And Erect, reflects on the making of a woodland playscape at Chilton Square in King’s Cross, where non-prescriptive play, dense urban constraints and circular construction come together in a space designed to work for all ages, all day.
Reflections: Walt Disney Concert Hall
Jason Sayer2026-01-08T17:24:35+00:00John Pardey revisits Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, examining its conceptual origins, exuberant material language, and its legacy within a generation shaped by icon-making architecture.
Meet the client: Tom Badger
Nelly Greig2026-01-06T13:34:11+00:00AT chats to Tom Badger about how Newham Council is steering Canning Town’s major regeneration, balancing industrial intensification, housing growth, green infrastructure, and inclusive, community-led development.
Woolwich Market Pavilion and Gardens
Nelly Greig2026-01-07T09:27:21+00:00Studio Weave’s Woolwich Market Pavilion and Gardens on Beresford Square in south-east London sensitively stitches together a mixed-use setting through accessible, communal spaces.
Review of 2025
Isabel Allen2026-01-05T09:09:50+00:002025 has been a year of looking closely – at buildings that endure, at ideas that travel, and at practices quietly reshaping the values of architecture. From the long view offered by the Architecture Today Awards to encounters with unexpected projects, places and people around the world, AT editor Isabel Allen looks back on a year rich in surprise, conviction and renewed optimism about what architecture can still achieve.
Material Cultures
Isabel Allen2025-12-17T17:18:00+00:00Material Cultures explain how they are challenging conventional construction cultures in a bid to bring architecture closer to agriculture, land management and landscape.