John Pardey reflects on the life and work of architect Peter Aldington, whose modest but deeply influential body of houses fused modern design with the English picturesque, creating an architecture rooted in place, craft and landscape.
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.
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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.
Housing and Planning minister at UKREiiF sets out key milestones in game plan to boost development
Housing and Planning Minister Matthew Pennycook used his UKREiiF address to defend the government’s record on housing and planning, set out the next stages of reform, and call for greater collaboration between government and the construction sector.
Dispatches from UKREiiF: Density and design
At UKREiiF, a panel chaired by Euan Mills explored whether dwellings per hectare remains a useful measure of density, or whether the industry needs more sophisticated ways of understanding how places function, evolve and support everyday life.
Building Brabazon
Jon McDiarmid and Seb Loyn from YTL Developments talk to Isabel Allen about transforming the 142-hectare former Filton Airfield, just outside Bristol, into the 'least new' of the latest batch of New Towns – and identifying the right architect for the job.
Dispatches from UKREiiF: Jon Di Stefano from Greencore Homes
AT chats to Jon Di Stefano, CEO of Greencore Homes, about climate-positive housing, natural-material construction, and how better-than-net-zero homes can move from niche proposition to mainstream development model.
Dispatches from UKREiiF: Humanising the city
Abigail Scott Paul, Global Head of the Humanise Campaign, talks to AT Editor Isabel Allen about waging war on mediocrity and giving Mayors the tools they need to set an awesome long-term vision for the communities they serve.
The RAI at Futurebuild 2026
Three practices involved in the Regenerative Architecture Index joined Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare at Futurebuild 2026 to explore what regenerative architecture looks like in practice today.
RAI deadline extended to Friday 29 May
The deadline for entries to the Regenerative Architecture Index 2026 has been extended to 11.59pm on Friday 29 May 2026.
Tipping Point East
Bringing together Yes Make, Resolve Collective and Material Cultures under a single operational site in Silvertown, east London, Tipping Point East combines material storage, fabrication, education and construction in a shared attempt to address the systemic waste embedded within the built environment and cultural sectors.
Opportunity for RAI members: Regenerative Design 2026
Participants in the 2026 Regenerative Architecture Index are invited to showcase their work at Regenerative Design 2026, a new month-long event that will take place at the Building Centre in central London throughout October 2026.
Free-to-attend workshops for RAI members to hone their photography skills
Timothy Soar's series of free-to-attend photography workshops for Regenerative Architecture Index members extends its programme – and gets off to a flying start.
The Hummingbird Learning Lab Site Visit
A site visit in Bruton, Somerset, brought together the longlisted architects for the Hummingbird Learning Lab with Architecture Today and Hummingbird founders Beau Lotto and Dave Strudwick – offering a first-hand encounter with an ambitious, neuroscience-led vision for regenerative education and the landscape that will shape it.
How do you design a regenerative masterplan?
Liz Liddell-Grainger from JTP argues that we need to look backward as well as forward to understand how to design masterplans that restore, renew or revitalise natural and social systems.
Jay Morton outlines her plans if she stands for the RIBA Presidency
Bell Phillips director, housing expert and seasoned political dynamo Jay Morton unveils her agenda – and her plan of action – if she stands as a candidate to be the next RIBA President.
Why some buildings stay with us
Steve Melvin of Atelier Architecture & Design reflects on the elusive qualities that make certain works of architecture capture the imagination and make a lasting impression on our collective consciousness.
The RAI on stage: Futurebuild 2026
Join RAI members Tonkin Liu, Purcell and Jan Kattein Architects at Futurebuild 2026 for a series of presentations exploring what regenerative architecture looks like in practice hosted by Architects Declare and Architecture Today.
Reinventing practice
Representatives of RAI member organisations are invited to take part in Reinventing Practice, an ongoing series of portraits of RAI members accompanied by insights into their efforts to transition towards regenerative practice.