Enclave: Acton
Jason Sayer2026-02-09T11:22:10+00:00HTA Design’s 32-storey co-living tower in North Acton employs volumetric modular construction to deliver 462 compact homes above a reinstated neighbourhood pub.
Melfield Gardens intergenerational living
Jason Sayer2026-02-03T17:13:14+00:00A pair of Passivhaus buildings in Lewisham by Levitt Bernstein brings older residents and students into close proximity, using shared routes, gardens and flexible homes to test a new, fully affordable model of intergenerational living.
Dispatches from Mexico: Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo
Jason Sayer2026-01-26T15:23:14+00:00Selected to design the 25th Serpentine Pavilion, LANZA atelier founders Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo discuss their serpentine-inspired proposal, the intelligence of modest forms, and how movement, materiality and collective experience shape their approach to architecture.
Reinventing one of the City’s last grand townhouses
Jason Sayer2026-01-21T09:53:07+00:00Chris Dyson Architects’ restoration of a five-storey Georgian townhouse in the City of London transforms a Grade II-listed building into a distinctive contemporary headquarters, balancing domestic grandeur with the demands of a modern workplace.
Muswell Hill Terrace
Jason Sayer2026-01-16T13:19:00+00:00Zminkowska De Boise Architects’ crafted rear extension to an Edwardian terrace in Muswell Hill replaces a poorly performing side return with a calm, split-level sequence of spaces shaped by material clarity, light and everyday family life.
Runda
Jason Sayer2026-01-19T16:03:02+00:00NIKJOO’s timber-framed house for developer Flawk transforms a tight, curved corner plot in Gospel Oak into a sculptural, low-carbon home shaped by craft, material care and the site’s industrial past.
London Fields West
Nelly Greig2026-01-13T15:12:02+00:00For more than two decades, London based practice Chance de Silva has pursued the question of what happens when art and architecture evolve simultaneously. With a design method shaped through collaboration with musicians, performance artists, painters and filmmakers, their recently completed project continues this enquiry, but this time, the collaborator is the city itself.
Designing for play in the city
Jason Sayer2026-01-09T17:17:50+00:00Susanne Tutsch, founding director of Root And Erect, reflects on the making of a woodland playscape at Chilton Square in King’s Cross, where non-prescriptive play, dense urban constraints and circular construction come together in a space designed to work for all ages, all day.
Meet the client: Tom Badger
Nelly Greig2026-01-06T13:34:11+00:00AT chats to Tom Badger about how Newham Council is steering Canning Town’s major regeneration, balancing industrial intensification, housing growth, green infrastructure, and inclusive, community-led development.
Woolwich Market Pavilion and Gardens
Nelly Greig2026-01-07T09:27:21+00:00Studio Weave’s Woolwich Market Pavilion and Gardens on Beresford Square in south-east London sensitively stitches together a mixed-use setting through accessible, communal spaces.
Looking back at Battersea Power Station
Jason Sayer2025-12-17T07:53:48+00:00WilkinsonEyre director Sébastien Ricard reflects on the long and complex journey to restore Battersea Power Station, exploring how flexibility, mixed use and deep respect for heritage were essential to transforming a near-derelict industrial monument into a resilient piece of city.
68 Erith Hub
Jason Sayer2025-12-16T10:23:50+00:00alma-nac’s transformation of a long-vacant high-street unit in Erith creates a flexible, low-carbon community hub, organised around a generous threshold space that links between street and interior.