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New Ground, Future Ancestors
Architects Declare's Next Gen Ambassadors take over The Building Centre for the last event of Regenerative Design 2026, bringing together emerging architects, designers and researchers to explore alternative approaches to practice, material reuse, architectural education and collective action.
The Ambitious Client: Beyond business as usual
At Regenerative Design 2026, six speakers explored how architects, clients and consultants can challenge conventional approaches to collaboration, procurement and project delivery to realise ambitious projects that deliver lasting environmental, social and economic value.
Sociophilic design: creating places that connect people
Forming part of Regenerative Design 2026, Architecture Today and HKS hosted a round table discussion exploring how sociophilic design can strengthen social connections, tackle loneliness and create more inclusive places.
Specifying sustainable roofs
Mark Harris, Head of Sustainability – Roofing at Sika, explored how green, blue, biosolar and photovoltaic roofing systems can help architects address biodiversity loss, urban overheating, flood risk and energy security, while navigating increasingly complex specification and fire safety requirements.
Why bamboo? A UK Bamboo Summit Spotlight Event
Architects, engineers, designers and researchers came together at Regenerative Design 2026 to explore bamboo’s potential as a mainstream low-carbon construction material, and the challenges of bringing it into wider use in the UK.
Tree Stories (and some grass): Neil Thomas on learning from nature
At Regenerative Design 2026, Atelier One founder Neil Thomas explored how trees, bamboo and the natural world can transform our approach to structural engineering, materials and design, with contributions from artist Barnaby Steel, pianist Sarah Nicolls and Atelier One’s Ralf Saade.
Circularity and closed loop design
As part of Regenerative Design 2026, Architecture Today, in partnership with Heidelberg Materials, hosted a round table discussion exploring the barriers to closed loop design and the opportunities for systemic change.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Anna Hollyman on driving systemic change at RD26
Anna Hollyman, Co-Director of Policy and Industry Intelligence at UKGBC, sets out why scaling the use of natural and sustainable materials demands a coordinated approach to policy, procurement, skills and supply chains. Watch Anna's talk in full here.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Rowland Keable on the potential of earth at RD26
Rowland Keable, Director of Rammed Earth Consulting, makes the case for earth as an overlooked construction material, demonstrating how locally-sourced clay and soil can create durable, adaptable and genuinely circular buildings. Find out more by watching Rowland's talk here.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Jordan Panayi on building with structural stone
Jordan Panayi, Part II Architectural Assistant at Groupwork, explores how structural stone and timber can replace carbon-intensive construction systems, drawing on the practice's experience of designing and delivering buildings with natural materials. Watch Jordan's talk here.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Eleonora Regni on engineering with stone at RD26
Eleonora Regni, Associate at Webb Yates Engineers, examines the structural potential of natural stone, explaining how innovative engineering can reduce embodied carbon without compromising performance. Find out more by watching Eleonora's talk here.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Siri Zanelli on making natural materials work in practice
Siri Zanelli, Founding Partner of Collective Works, shares practical lessons from specifying natural materials, exploring how architects can overcome barriers relating to cost, regulation, construction methods and client expectations. Watch Siri's talk in full here.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Lee Fox on putting circular construction into practice
Lee Fox, project architect at BakerBrown Studio, shares lessons from the Bradbury Den project, showing how material reuse, straw bales, and locally-sourced earth can be incorporated into a modestly funded education building. Watch Lee's talk here.
Circularity and intelligent specification
Forming part of Regenerative Design 2026, Architecture Today, in partnership with Interface, hosted a round table discussion exploring how circular design, material reuse and more intelligent specification can become standard practice across the construction industry.
Whole life carbon and adaptive reuse
A Regenerative Design 2026 seminar, delivered by AT in partnership with Max Fordham and HLM Architects, explored the carbon, commercial and social benefits of adaptive reuse, and how to overcome barriers to retaining existing buildings.
Towards a regenerative supply chain
Forming part of Regenerative Design 2026, AT in partnership with In Opera hosted a round table discussion exploring the challenges of creating regenerative supply chains and making more responsible material choices.
Paradigm shift: Elora Hardy at RD26
Opening Regenerative Design 2026, Elora Hardy, founder of IBUKU, argues that regenerative practice begins by leaning to unlearn, and question the assumptions designers have inherited. Watch her keynote speech here.
Paradigm shift: Kelly Alvarez Doran on changing the rules at RD26
Kelly Alvarez Doran, Co-Founder of Ha/f Climate Design, focused on the regulatory and economic systems that determine what gets built, arguing that carbon and cost are often driven by the same underlying decisions. Watch Kelly's talk in full here.
Paradigm shift: Amin Taha on using materials intelligently at RD26
Amin Taha, Founder and Director of Groupwork, sets out a radical approach to new construction: start with a timber building, then go through and assess each component, only substituting materials out where strictly necessary. Listen to Amin's talk in full here.
Paradigm shift: Duncan Baker-Brown on reuse before extraction at RD26
Duncan Baker-Brown, Founder and Director of Baker-Brown Studio, focussed on extraction and the use of manufactured products and natural building materials, arguing that mass extraction for bio-based materials can be just as harmful to the planet. There is another approach. Find out more by watching Duncan's talk in full here.
Paradigm shift: Marian Garfield on moving from ambition to industrial reality at RD26
Marian Garfield, Director of Sustainability at Heidelberg Materials UK, offers the manufacturers perspective to the production of one of the industries most carbon-intensive materials, highlighting the rapid development and growth of carbon capture, and emphasising the importance of synced up industries. Watch Marian's talk in full here.
Paradigm shift: Ivan Jovanovic on working with natural systems at RD26
Ivan Jovanovic, Director of Sustainability and Environmental Design at Atelier Ten, suggests we must learn to operate within contemporary systems, understand their structure, and change them from within. Watch Ivan's talk in full here.
Passive fire protection
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Promat, exploring how architects, engineers, manufacturers and legal specialists are addressing the challenges of integrating passive fire protection into retrofit, renovation and change-of-use projects.
Designing workplaces for people and planet
Watch the AT Workplace webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics, exploring how retrofit, reuse, adaptability, acoustic comfort and long-term thinking are shaping workplaces that work better for people and the planet.
Circularity in architecture – designing for a zero-waste future
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with TECHNAL UK & Ireland, exploring how circular design principles are being put into practice across the built environment, from material recovery and verified product data to closed-loop façade recycling and the radical reuse of existing buildings.
Frameworks, quality and the future of NHS estates
With NHS trusts and their delivery partners under increasing pressure, a round table discussion, hosted by Architecture Today in partnership with IKO, explored whether healthcare procurement frameworks are delivering better buildings, and what is needed to improve design quality, collaboration and standardisation.
Tall buildings: balancing performance, safety and wellbeing
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Knauf UK, exploring how tall buildings can balance fire safety, acoustic and thermal comfort, environmental performance, regulatory compliance and resident wellbeing.
Delivering safer buildings – embedding fire, health and life safety into design practice
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Siderise, exploring how architects, practitioners and fire specialists are responding to the Building Safety Act by embedding fire, health and life safety into every stage of design, specification and project delivery.
Future homes – delivering new housing, retrofit and performance at scale
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with VELUX, exploring how the UK housing sector is responding to increasing demand, tightening regulations, and the urgent need to decarbonise.
Blue roofs – unlocking the potential of the fifth façade
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with IKO, exploring how blue roof systems can transform rooftops into active infrastructure that manages stormwater, supports sustainability targets and unlocks development potential.