Peter Smith, Architect at Collective Architecture, considers how architects and planners can create cities that give children greater freedom to explore, play and make use of the spaces around them.
Holcim hosted a panel discussion to explore the challenges involved in delivering intelligent solutions to the housing shortage in the UK and worldwide at the Zaha Hadid Foundation on June 23rd as part of London Festival of Architecture.
Maccreanor Lavington’s Prisca Thielmann discusses the practice’s role in shaping the first completed residential buildings at Brent Cross Town, exploring density, community, thresholds and the creation of a new piece of London.
Dulux Trade’s Dawn Scott and Andrew Roser in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discuss how colour strategies and high-performance coatings can support wellbeing, durability and long-term value across social housing projects.
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.
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.
As the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) pushes suburban densification as a means of unlocking land for 1.8 million new homes, Neil Deely from Metropolitan Workshop shares the practice’s proposals for reinventing the suburbs to facilitate changing lifestyles and demographic.
The recent Planning Update conference offered a stinging critique of the 'armchair generals' shaping planning policy and Sadiq Khan's misguided assumption that house-builders will deliver London's social housing programme.
STEICO explores the environmental and performance benefits of specifying wood fibre insulation on large housing developments.
The conversion of a historic rye mill in Boršov nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, by mar.s architects brings together restored silos, new residential buildings and a redefined public square to create a distinctive, mixed-use riverside community.
HTA Design’s 32-storey co-living tower in North Acton employs volumetric modular construction to deliver 462 compact homes above a reinstated neighbourhood pub.
The announcement of the locations of the next generation of New Towns is a crucial milestone in tackling the UK's housing crisis. Arup's Vicky Evans identifies the steps that need to be taken for these projects to succeed.
