Box Library
AT Editor2026-03-26T11:24:48+00:00U-Build has launched the Box Library, a pioneering initiative based at BLOQS in northeast London, that enables modular timber components to be borrowed, reused and returned for temporary construction.
Folgate Building
AT Editor2026-03-19T14:41:52+00:00Lifschutz 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.
Designing play spaces for all seasons
AT Editor2026-03-19T19:38:50+00:00USA SHADE discusses how shade structures and climate-responsive design can support safer, more resilient playgrounds throughout the year.
School of Specification – Specifying Colour
AT Editor2026-03-19T12:14:59+00:00Dawn 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.
Standing the test of time: Regent High School
Jason Sayer2026-03-19T15:22:33+00:00Cindy 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.
In conversation with Shigeru Ban
Jason Sayer2026-03-20T11:36:53+00:00Shigeru 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.
West London House
AT Editor2026-03-24T11:02:08+00:00Goldstein 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.
Standing the test of time: Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre
Jason Sayer2026-03-17T12:33:32+00:00Cindy 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.
Reflections: The Bauhaus
AT Editor2026-03-13T15:19:34+00:00John 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.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Jude Barber and Gerry Hogan from Collective Architecture
Isabel Allen2026-03-14T05:07:16+00:00Collective 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.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Duncan Cox from Cundall
Isabel Allen2026-03-12T17:33:39+00:00Duncan 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.
Smiljan Radić Clarke wins the 2026 Pritzker Prize
Jason Sayer2026-03-12T17:42:37+00:00Chilean 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.