A selection of architectural projects from across the Architecture Today site featured on Instagram.
Tonkin Liu’s studio is shaped by nature. From watching light change over the seasons to collecting seeds on their travels, Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu share how reconnecting with the rhythms of the natural world is key to designing for the long term.
In this issue: Unboxed Homes’ Blenheim Grove in Peckham, Keith Williams Architects’ De Valera Library and Súil Gallery in Ireland, Materials library with Alison Brooks Architects, Roz Barr Architects’ Courtyard Houses in Surrey, dRMM on the benefits of mass timber, and more.
From regenerative design to material rationing, Christopher Ash and James Soane from Project Orange explore the urgent need for a paradigm shift in how we build, renovate, and engage with communities.
London’s National Gallery has opened its doors to a newly refurbished education centre designed by Lawson Ward Studio with heritage support from Purcell.
Kate Quinlan, director at McLean Quinlan talks to AT about the virtues of having a family-run practice, why they moved the office to Winchester, and two new projects on the North Downs and in the US.
Iorram Cottage by Baillie Baillie strikes a sensitive balance between local Highland vernacular and regenerative building methods.
Jonas Lencer, Saskia Lencer and Judith Stichtenoth of dRMM discuss retrofitting their own studio, perfecting the art of the compromise and making the case to decision-makers that it’s worth building in mass timber.
HÛT Architecture has sympathetically transformed a 1930s army drill hall into co-working offices, a café, and apartments in the heart of London's Mile End.
Henley Halebrown's multi-use scheme for students and graduates of the arts combines student flats with affordable studio and commercial spaces to provide an exciting framework for the future of student housing.
Aleks Stojakovic and Alexander Frehse, co-founders of Studio 8FOLD, discuss teaching students on site in South Africa, building with rammed earth, reusing timber and how clients react when asked what sustainability means to them.
David Kohn Architects’ expansion of New College, Oxford, reinterprets the university’s long-standing quadrangle tradition with a curving, contemporary form that fosters an open relationship between college and city.
