In this issue: The Regenerative Architecture Index 2026 is unveiled; Collective Architecture's Gerry Hogan and Studio Saar on being good ancestors; Ian Poole from Elliott Wood and Neil Thomas from Atelier One on co-evolving with nature, Birds Portchmouth Russum and DSDHA's Tom Greenall and Nicole Abernethy on creating just spaces for people; and Stephen O'Malley on why Dublin is his kind of town.
Mary Duggan and Paul Ruff reflect on Stirling Prize win
Following Lion Green Road's 2026 RIBA Stirling Prize win, Mary Duggan and Paul Ruff reflect on the importance of generous, affordable housing and the wider lessons the project offers for the profession.
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.
Free RD26 Seminar: Help the client – beyond business as usual
Leading names from across the industry ask how architects can help clients to realise regenerative ambitions and overcome the systemic barriers to collaborative design at a free-to-attend RD26 event on Tuesday 27th October, delivered in partnership with HDR.
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Making materials matter
In Opera Group Co-founder and Director Enzo Favro talks to AT about supporting Regenerative Design 2026, developing more sustainable materials, and the need for clearer standards and closer collaboration across the construction supply chain.
Pathways for a regenerative future
Founder of Exploration Architecture, Michael Pawlyn explored how biomimicry, systems thinking and a fundamental shift in our relationship with nature could transform architecture and help create a regenerative future, in a keynote at Regenerative Design 2026.
Join Roger Madelin of British Land at Regenerative Design 2026
Roger Madelin of British Land joins the line-up for the Help the Client seminar, delivered in partnership with HDR on the morning of Tuesday 27th October at the Building Centre in central London as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
A concert pianist, a conceptual artist and an engineer
Barnaby Steel of experiential art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast and concert pianist Sarah Nicolls will join engineer Neil Thomas of Atelier One at Tree Stories (and some grass), a Regenerative Design 2026 event on the evening of Wednesday October 21st.
How Should We Innovate? – speakers announced
RIBA London Ethical Practice Special Interest Group to host a seminar entitled 'How Should We Innovate?' on the afternoon of Wednesday 7th October at the Building Centre in central London as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Kicking off Regenerative Design 2026
Architecture Today has launched Regenerative Design 2026, a month-long programme of exhibitions and events at the Building Centre in central London.
Regenerative Architecture Index 2026: front-runners announced
The front-runners in this year's Regenerative Architecture Index were announced on Thursday 1st October at the launch party for Regenerative Design 2026.
Regenerative Design 2026 launches at the Building Centre
Architecture Today has launched Regenerative Design 2026, a month-long programme of exhibitions and events at the Building Centre in London.
Learning from what works
AHMM Associate Director and Head of Sustainability Craig Robertson talks to AT about supporting the Regenerative Design 2026 Case Studies exhibition, sharing knowledge across the profession, and the practice’s journey towards regenerative design.
Designing as nature
Ahead of his keynote talk for Regenerative Design 2026, Michael Pawlyn, founder of Exploration Architecture, explores how rethinking our relationship with nature could help unlock the systemic change needed for regenerative design.
Mike Russum
For Mike Russum of Birds Portchmouth Russum, regeneration starts with joy: bringing together climate, water, planting and biomimicry to create adaptable places that work more like healthy ecosystems than isolated buildings.
Gerry Hogan
Gerry Hogan of Collective Architecture asks what it means to be a steward rather than an owner, embedding social and environmental responsibility in the practice’s legal structure, succession and everyday culture.
Neil Thomas
Bamboo: vegetable carbon fibre, climate solution and a British crop. Neil Thomas of Atelier One asks what we can learn from nature’s 400-million-year head start in engineering.
Ian Poole
What can a soap film teach us about concrete construction? Ian Poole of Elliott Wood discusses biomimicry, material reuse in a push to make structural engineering less extractive and more regenerative.
Free RD26 seminar: Specifying natural and sustainable construction materials
BakerBrown Studio, Collective Works, Groupwork, Webb Yates, UKGBC and Rowland Keable of Rammed Earth join the line-up at a seminar on whole life carbon and adaptive reuse delivered in partnership with HG Matthews on the morning of Tuesday 20th October as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
DSDHA
From Broadgate to the studio garden and experimental earth construction, Tom Greenall and Nicole Abernethy of DSDHA explore how testing ideas at different scales can turn landscape, biodiversity and material innovation into everyday practice.
Dispatches: Cooke Fawcett
Oliver Cooke and Francis Fawcett, founders of Cooke Fawcett, discuss leaving Herzog & de Meuron, building a practice from scratch, and their evolving approach to heritage, retrofit and cultural projects.
RDA Architects
Richard Dudzicki tells AT how cinema, Passivhaus principles and London’s constraints shape a practice focused on retaining what exists, using fewer resources and finding inventive ways to make lasting homes.
Free RD26 seminar: Whole life carbon and adaptive reuse
Max Fordham, HLM Architects, Grimshaw, Elliott Wood, PDP and Esther Robinson Wild join the line-up at a seminar on whole life carbon and adaptive reuse that takes place on the morning of Thursday 15th October as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Elora Hardy to give opening talk at Regenerative Design 2026
TED Talk speaker, founder of radical design studio IBUKU and the designer behind some of the most extraordinary structures in the world, will kick off the events programme at Regenerative Design 2026 with a keynote talk on the morning of Monday 5th October.
Corinna Dean
Corinna Dean of ARCA considers how architecture can foster care for human and non-human life, drawing on collaborative projects from floating reed beds on the River Lea to bio-receptive bricks that expose the environmental costs of making.
Architects Declare’s Next Gen Ambassadors present: Regenerative Design – What Now?
What does it look like when a generation of architects witness their profession fundamentally change over the course of their training – and, more importantly, what happens when we stop waiting for the industry to catch up and start changing it ourselves?
Paul Ruff
Paul Ruff reflects on a career shaped by resourcefulness, reinvention and a growing conviction that architecture must take responsibility for its impact.
Navigating the gateway process
Adam Eaton, Director at Trigon Fire Safety, and Jayne Hall, Associate at Hunters, have produced a School of Specification module on navigating the Gateway process. Here, they explore architects’ responsibilities, Gateway 2 submissions, change control and demonstrating compliance at Gateway 3.