A selection of architectural projects from across the Architecture Today site featured on Instagram.
Martin Saxby, UK Country Manager at LX Hausys, answers readers’ questions on solid surfaces.
Wendover Studio’s conversion of the former St John’s Wood police station transforms the Victorian civic building into nine boutique rental apartments arranged around a courtyard.
In Edinburgh’s gritty, ever-changing Leith, a new kind of architecture is taking place. It’s low-tech, hands-on, and entirely regenerative. From hempcrete mixed like porridge to screw-pile foundations and low-carbon concrete, Kieran Hawkins, founder of Cairn, proves that small material changes, collaborative building, and clear values can drive big shifts in how, and why, we build.
DLA Architecture’s mass timber rooftop extension and deep retrofit of three mews buildings elevates a historic Mayfair street into a new, carbon-conscious, design-led workspace.
Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed reflects on her passion for 20th century architecture, the role of storytelling in preservation, and her ambitions as the newly appointed President of the Twentieth Century Society.
A workplace for scientists and a machine for solar spectacle, Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute is functional, poetic – and impossible to photograph.
Somerset-based practice Thread has ‘re-revealed’ a collection of historic buildings in Redruth, North Cornwall, to create a vibrant hub for artists, food entrepreneurs and the local community.
Aoibhín McGinley and Lauren Li Porter discuss how the practice’s expansive and carefully curated materials library infuses both its work and work-life with practicality and playfulness.
Henrietta Billings reflects on how Norwich’s rich historic character, vibrant economy and human-scale urbanism present both a model and a challenge for new development – and explains why SAVE Britain’s Heritage is helping shape a more contextual vision for its future.
Rupert Cook and Socrates Miltiadou co-lead London practice Miltiadou Cook Mitzman Architects. They talk to AT about their beginnings in construction and stonemasonry and how they translate this experience into regenerative practice.
John Pardey on William Morris and Philip Webb’s Red House in Bexleyheath – a home that looked to embody ‘truth’ in craftsmanship and construction and which to some, is the very first modern house.
