A selection of architectural projects from across the Architecture Today site featured on Instagram.
Real Madrid’s new Santiago Bernabéu represents a high point in stadium design, but also highlights how stadia have become increasingly inscrutable and detached from their surroundings.
Pippa Nissen explores the crucial distinction between financial risk and creative risk, and explains how the success of Nissen Richards' masterplan for Sutton Hoo in Suffolk depended on the client's ability to distinguish between the two.
On the outskirts of Ashbocking in Suffolk, Project Orange has delivered five two-storey dwellings, transforming a site that previously hosted a collection of decaying, semi-industrial buildings.
A landmark timber building designed by Anttinen Oiva Architects forms the latest addition to Helsinki’s historic Market Square.
London studio Mailen Design with the Dover office of Peter Bradford Architects has completed a refined rural dwelling that integrates into the Kentish countryside.
In this issue: we publish the inaugural Regenerative Architecture Index, with each practice's answers to the survey available to read. Plus, Engineer Neil Thomas reviews two bamboo domes at the Wildheart Animal Sanctuary on the Isle of Wight and Wildheart COO Lawrence Bates explains why Wildheart has pledged to work exclusively with architects in the RAI.
The inaugural Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI) was launched by Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare in London on 12 September. The event, which was supported by Fabrix and Interface, and attended by leading practitioners, celebrated front-runners from the RAI's Compendium of Best Practice.
At the Regenerative Architecture Index launch party, cofounder of UK Architects Declare Michael Pawlyn discussed ideas, cities, culture, creativity and the future with legendary musician and thinker Brian Eno.
The lemur domes at Wildheart Animal Sanctuary on the Isle of Wight are the first bamboo structures to obtain Building Regulations approval in the UK – part of an ever-evolving experiment in natural materials and regenerative design. Neil Thomas discovers a world that revolves around the needs of wildlife, the environment, and generations to come.
Part 2 of the Regenerative Architecture Index, Co-evolving with nature, is about recognising that we are part of – as opposed to separate from – the natural world. It recognises the importance of actively regenerating ecosystems by learning from and working with natural systems. This requires designing for circularity and encouraging closed-loop energy, material and water cycles.
Studio dílna has created a modern extension for Masaryk University’s Faculty of Education in Brno, designing a new, dynamic gallery space for art students.
Internationally renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has won the Architecture category of the 2024 Praemium Imperiale Awards.
