Dispatches from MIPIM: Tarek Merlin from Feix&Merlin
Tarek Merlin, director and co-founder at Feix&Merlin reflects on the ever-changing nature of MIPIM, where chance encounters and meaningful conversations defined his experience. This year, he took to the stage to discuss inclusivity in real estate and the value of a queer lens in housing design.
School of Specification – Incorporating client feedback
Nigel Ostime, principal of Ostime Consulting, has produced a School of Specification module exploring the importance of feedback. Here, he considers what clients are looking for from architects and how practitioners can improve their performance.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Richard Roberts from Jason Bruges Studio
Richard Roberts, managing & design director at Jason Bruges Studio, looks back on a successful MIPIM filled with valuable conversations and unexpected meetings — despite the daily downpours – and looks ahead to an exciting period with multiple art installations launching in the US and London.
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Dispatches from MIPIM: Dav Bansal from Howells
Dav Bansal, partner at Howells, reflects on the value of MIPIM for strengthening relationships, supporting Birmingham, and gaining insights into the year ahead. He highlights the importance of learning from peers and clients, as well as mentoring colleagues experiencing the event for the first time.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Neil Deely from Metropolitan Workshop
Metropolitan Workshop’s Neil Deely shares his thoughts on MIPIM. As well as calling for a bolder UK presence, he discusses key projects, including work in Ireland and London, and describes what "monsters" keep him up at night.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Kimberly Tryba of LILA Landscape Architecture
Kimberly Tryba, managing principal of LILA Landscape Architecture in New York reflects on the whirlwind of MIPIM, calls for landscape architecture to take centre stage at future events, and discusses the rewarding challenge of growing her practice’s international presence.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Agnieszka Glowacka of Haptic
Agnieszka Glowacka, COO at Haptic Architects, shares her insights on MIPIM’s value for networking, the challenge of follow-ups, and the importance of diverse representation.
Dispatches from the Women’s Safety Audit: Holly Lewis
AT talks to… Holly Lewis, co-founding partner at We Made That, about the outcomes of the Women’s Safety Audit’s pilot projects and what moves architects can make based on its findings.
Rachel Hoolahan
For Rachel Hoolahan of Orms the transition to regenerative design involves systems thinking coupled with a willingness to try different things, learn from mistakes, remain optimistic and celebrate the wins.
My Kind of Town: James Traynor
James Traynor, managing director at ECD Architects, is rooting for Preston to realise its potential to become the perfect 15-minute compact city.
School of Specification – Introduction to the Urban Greening Factor
Rob Beswick, founder and director of BD landscape architects, has produced a School of Specification module exploring the Urban Greening Factor. Here, he considers the main UGF principles and factor values.
Dispatches: Emily Newton
AT talks to Emily Newton, Associate Director at Assael, about the practice’s Urban Family Housing concept, and how being an architect and working mother influences her design and leadership approach.
Jerry Tate
Jerry Tate is on a mission to deliver projects that allow people living and working in crowded urban conditions to enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship with the natural world.
Territoriality and temporality in architecture
The International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) invites researchers, academics, and professionals to submit abstracts for its 2025 conference on the evolving relationships between buildings, time, and place.
Dispatches from Barcelona: Lilian Ho
AT chats to… Lilian Ho, architect and expert in generative design, about the world's first online master's in AI in construction and architecture.
Schüco Excellence Awards 2025
Entry is now open for the 2025 Schüco Excellence Awards, for buildings that feature Schüco facades, window and door systems.
Dispatches from Lviv and Kentucky: Shigeru Ban
AT chats to… Japanese Pritzker Prize-winning architect, Shigeru Ban about his work in Ukraine, the USA, how he ended up in Paris, and the architects and engineers that inspire him today.
The Regenerative Architecture Index at Futurebuild
Catch Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare at this year's Futurebuild exhibition where you can learn about the Regenerative Architecture Index at our innovative stand and through a series of talks.
Introducing the January-February 2025 issue of Architecture Today
In this issue: Timothy Soar revisits winners of the 2024 AT Awards documenting them as they are now, having stood the test of time; we hear from architects and clients on what made their projects so successful; Tom Bloxham reflects on 30 years of Urban Splash and Fernando Sordo Madaleno on Mexico City.
SANAA awarded 2025 Royal Gold Medal
The Japanese practice led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa has been recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects for its balance of simplicity and depth, crafting spaces that prioritise light, inclusivity, and a profound connection to place.
Cabin Crew
A new book from The Modernist tells the story of Welsh architectural practice Hird & Brooks and explores its obsession ith crafting the perfect holiday home.
My Kind of Town: Fernando Sordo Madaleno
Fernando Sordo Madaleno explains how a series of cataclysmic events have made their mark Mexico City, resulting in a multi-layered cityscape that is melodramatic, memorable and even a little crazy.
Dispatches from the World Monuments Fund: John Darlington
AT chats to… John Darlington, director at the World Monuments Fund (WMF) about how under threat sites can get support, how architects can engage with such sites and why the moon has been nominated on the 2025 WMF Watch list.
Ways of seeing: re-framing familiar buildings
Timothy Soar talks to AT Editor Isabel Allen about his approach to taking up-to-date photography of the winning buildings in the Architecture Today Awards for buildings that stand the test of time.
Reflections: Neue Nationalgalerie
John Pardey reflects on Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie (1968) in Berlin – a temple to glass and steel that was the German architect's realisation of 'universal space' and his swan song.
Dispatches from the British Embassy in Paris
AT reports back from the UK Architecture Showcase: a two-day event which was hosted this week at the British Embassy in Paris.
5th Studio partner with Barclays to produce retrofit pattern book
Grace Fletcher from 5th Studio discusses the battle to retrofit our historic housing stock and how the practice has teamed up with Barclays bank on a pilot retrofit pattern book.