Anna Pamphilon from Within Planetary Boundaries asks how designers can work with clients to factor long-term social and environmental implications into investment decisions and business plans.
RAI Dublin Round Table: From Infrastructure to Place – Building a Better Ireland
Those leading housing, planning, architecture, placemaking, and local government across Ireland, sit down to discuss the disconnect between major infrastructure projects, housing delivery, and holistic placemaking in Ireland.
Dispatches: Cotter & Naessens’ ‘Assembly’ Pavilion Tours Ireland
Following its presentation at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Ireland’s national pavilion embarks on a nationwide tour, bringing its exploration of architecture, participation and collective listening to audiences across the country.
Video: Stephen O’Malley, Civic
Stephen O’Malley, Chief Executive of CIVIC, tells AT what surprised him most about our round table discussion, ‘From Infrastructure to Place’.
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Dispatches: UKREiiF recap with Holly Lewis
Holly Lewis, co-founding partner of We Made That, reflects on UKREiiF, the value of targeted conversations, and why small practices should go in prepared but leave room for serendipity.
Studio Bark unveils ‘Planning Appeal Intelligence’ AI tool for beta testing
Studio Bark and tech consultant David Sinclair have developed ‘PAI’ (Planning Appeal Intelligence), an AI-powered planning research tool designed to help architects and planning professionals navigate the planning system more efficiently. Rather than searching planning precedents using keywords, it uses semantic search to identify relevant planning appeal decisions based on the specific constraints and characteristics of a project.
The next president of the RIBA needs to Make the Environment Great Again
Will Arnold explains why now, more than ever, the built environment needs a figurehead who can cut through the noise of short-term politics to convince both government and the public that environmental action is both positive and practical.
RAI members hone their photography skills
RAI members explored new approaches to photography at a workshop held by Timothy Soar at dMFK's Fitzrovia studio.
RIBA Presidential Elections 2026: Live Hustings
The four candidates for the RIBA Presidency thrashed out the relationship between architecture and the climate emergency at a live hustings.
Carol Costello, Cullinan Studio
From pioneering employee ownership and collaborative procurement to championing low-energy design, retrofit and nature-led architecture, Carol Costello explains how Cullinan Studio is evolving its founding ideals to meet the challenges of a changing world.
Still standing: Langston Terrace Dwellings, Washington, D.C., 1938
Conceived as an attempt to translate lessons from European modernist housing into a distinctly American – and more specifically African American – idiom, Washington, D.C.’s first public housing development survives as a vital refuge from the city’s spiralling housing costs.
My Kind of Town: Gavin Hale-Brown
Gavin Hale-Brown explains how living and working in the Japanese city of Yonago shaped his development as an architect.
RAI members tour Tipping Point East
Architecture Today, UK Architects Declare and Zetteler recently welcomed Regenerative Architecture Index members to Tipping Point East in Newham, east London, for a tour exploring circular construction, material reuse and community-led infrastructure.
School of Specification – Introduction to the ARB professional conduct process
Ben Hall, Partner at JMW Solicitors, has produced a School of Specification module on the ARB professional conduct process. Here, he outlines how complaints are assessed and what architects can expect during an investigation.
Custodians versus corporations
The New Towns Taskforce is entrusting the delivery of new settlements to development corporations. Architect-turned-developer Russ Edwards explains why housing associations’ culture of stewardship and resilience makes them a better fit for the role.
School of Specification – Compliance for architects
Chloe Wynne, Solicitor in the Business Crime and Regulation team at JMW Solicitors, has produced a School of Specification module exploring compliance for architects. Here, she outlines the key legal obligations underpinning practice and how to reduce risk.
From green to regenerative: building public value for future generations
Regenerative Futures: A panel discussion at UKREiiF from Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare focused on delivering enduring value through heritage, low-carbon interventions, and inclusive governance.
From Shetland to Halifax: a personal case for refurbishment
Barr Gazetas associate Magnus Wills reflects on how growing up in Shetland and encountering pioneering refurbishment projects shaped his belief in reuse, regenerative design and the future of sustainable housing.
Tomorrow’s Clients at UKREiiF: Stuart Newton-Tyers, Wild Capital
Stuart Newton-Tyers from Wild Capital talks to AT about how Biodiversity Net Gain is reshaping the sequencing of development and where architects are still being caught out.
Dispatches from UKREiiF: Mairi Laverty, Collective Architecture
Mairi Laverty, Director at Glasgow-based Collective Architecture, reflects on an unexpectedly optimistic UKREiiF, the growing momentum behind housing investment in Scotland, and the importance of socially conscious collaboration in shaping the next generation of retrofit and new-build projects.
UKREiiF Round Table: Unlocking the value of heritage assets
How do we unlock the economic, social and cultural value locked inside Britain's historic buildings? A roundtable of experts from architecture, law, engineering, finance and local government gathered to explore this question and debate the definition of value itself.
Tomorrow’s Clients at UKREiiF: Finlay Ward, West Midlands Growth Company
Finlay Ward, Capital Investment Executive at West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC), tells AT how architects can better align with regional economic growth priorities, why a belief in the West Midlands in crucial, and the geopolitics keeping him awake at night.
Sovereign Network Group promote their new Homes and Place Standard at UKREiiF 2026
Sovereign Network Group’s Homes and Place Standard was co-created by its customers and is used to measure a portfolio of more than 86,000 homes across London and the South and West of England. This is against 140 metrics which are underpinned by three pillars: Home, Place and Sustainable Futures. The panel discuss why the new standard presents a crucial shift in the industry’s approach to placemaking and the creation of sustainable communities, and how it seeks to tighten the gap between quantity and quality.
The Architectural Heritage Fund relaunches the Heritage Revival Fund at UKREiiF
The Architectural Heritage Fund celebrates its 50th birthday with the launch of its biggest ever fund through the expanded Heritage Revival Fund.
Dispatches from UKREiiF: Antje Saunders
As SNG’s unveil their Homes and Place Standard, their Design Director Antje Saunders share news of SNG’s new framework tender for housing and masterplanning – with space for up to 30 practices – and discusses the housing association’s ambition to raise the quality of affordable housing through collaborative, context-led design.
Tomorrow’s Clients at UKREiiF: Jessica Hird, STAT Planning
Jessica Hird, Associate Planner, tells AT what she thinks architects could being doing to better support planners, her biggest red flag when working with architects, and why she’s advocating for the next generation of Town Planners.
Tomorrow’s Clients at UKREiiF: Sam Galloway, Incommunities
Affordable housing demands architects who can balance vision with reality. Sam Galloway explains how Incommunities selects and collaborates with designers, embedding practical, sustainable, and socially minded approaches, while ensuring schemes remain viable, well-managed, and places residents will value for decades.
The New Industrial Revolution: Sheds, data centres and the future of logistics
At UKREiiF, a panel explored how power, planning, data centres and logistics are reshaping the industrial development market.