Threefold House by Knox Bhavan
AT Editor2023-08-23T10:05:10+01:00Knox Bhavan has completed an exemplar low-carbon house on a challenging brownfield site in south-west London.
Meet the client: Theo Michell, Bywater Properties
AT Editor2023-08-18T12:17:37+01:00Bywater Properties’ Theo Michell discusses the importance and viability of large-scale, timber-led developments, and why the current focus on retrofit may hamper innovation in the office sector.
Joyce Newman House and Joseph Lancaster Terrace
AT Editor2023-08-22T15:46:16+01:00Bell Phillips’ sensitively handled development of 40 social rent homes for Leathermarket Community Benefit Society (LCBS) is a rewarding housing delivery model that provides for local needs, says Mellis Haward.
Abundance at the amphitheatre
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-16T11:10:49+01:00London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman’s colourful work, Abundance, gently makes its way around Paddington Central.
Still standing: Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, 1813
Isolde Brampton-Greene2024-12-18T13:19:26+00:00Technical virtuosity, madcap curatorship, and a remarkable eye for detail combine to secure the Soane Museum’s status as architecture’s intellectual funhouse
Rethinking the terraced house
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-10-18T12:07:25+01:00Zach Fluker, director of ao-ft, explains how Spruce House and Studio, constructed from CLT, establishes a prototype for sustainable housing on tight urban sites.
Meet the client: Alex Michelin, Valouran
AT Editor2023-08-16T11:19:47+01:00The founder and CEO of Valouran discusses the importance of resilience and strength when it comes to developing successful projects, and why retrofit offers the best of both worlds from a design and environmental perspective.
Introducing the July-August 2023 issue of AT
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-16T11:20:34+01:00AT editor Isabel Allen unearths bamboo, a material that according engineer Neil Thomas, is "the material engineers would invent if they could design a material from scratch."
Waging war on greenwashing
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-10-16T09:52:38+01:00With the climate emergency more pressing than ever, it is increasingly important that claims about sustainability are both accurate and substantiated. Bennetts Associates director Peter Fisher explains why the practice is on a mission to stamp out exaggerated claims about building performance and has produced a charter to promote data sharing, transparency and truth.
Materials library: Material Cultures
Jason Sayer2023-12-19T09:39:14+00:00Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam and George Massoud discuss how the Hackney-based practice is radically rethinking its attitudes towards materials for a post-carbon future.
Shortlist for the 2023 BDA Brick Awards announced
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-16T11:55:28+01:00David Kohn, Squire & Partners, Hawkins\Brown, Mecanoo, Morris + Company, AHMM, FCBS and Niall McLaughlin Architects, among others, comprise the shortlist for the 2023 BDA Brick Awards.
My kind of town: Katy Marks
AT Editor2023-10-16T09:52:55+01:00Katy Marks, founder of Citizens Design Bureau, on Sarajevo, the 'Jerusalem of Europe' where culture is both a survival tool and the city's life force.