Dispatches from the Serpentine Pavilion: Marina Tabassum

2025-06-04T09:55:19+01:00

AT chats to Marina Tabassum, the Bangladeshi architect behind the 25th Serpentine Pavilion which has opened in West London. We learn about what informed her design for A Capsule in Time, and the challenges of building a temporary structure on the Hyde Park site.

Dispatches from the Serpentine Pavilion: Marina Tabassum2025-06-04T09:55:19+01:00

Learning from Cedric Price

2025-06-04T09:55:35+01:00

In the 1990s, Cedric Price’s radical approach to architectural practice – prioritising processes over buildings – was seen as visionary and eccentric. Today, as the Regenerative Architecture Index reveals, his ideas about systems, adaptability, and the intelligence of practice itself are central to an evolving, more sustainable profession.

Learning from Cedric Price2025-06-04T09:55:35+01:00

2025 Serpentine Pavilion

2025-06-04T16:20:16+01:00

Marina Tabassum Architects’ 2025 Serpentine Pavilion, ‘A Capsule in Time’ brings a poetic, ephemeral structure to Kensington Gardens, drawing on the dynamic heritage of the Bengal Delta to create a versatile, light-filled gathering space.

2025 Serpentine Pavilion2025-06-04T16:20:16+01:00

Anthony Grimshaw Associates

2025-06-04T09:58:39+01:00

Three years after the practice's 60th anniversary, AT hears from Anthony Grimshaw Associates: the sister-run practice at the forefront of the North-West's conservation battle with crumbling churches and lack of public funding.

Anthony Grimshaw Associates2025-06-04T09:58:39+01:00

Red Cow Terrace

2025-05-30T17:25:39+01:00

Bold in ambition, but compromised in delivery, Office S&M’s terrace of three family homes in a Hertfordshire village shows how commercial reality can dilute good ideas. Ellen Peirson applauds the bravery of a riposte to standard developer housing that has survived against the odds.

Red Cow Terrace2025-05-30T17:25:39+01:00

V&A East Storehouse

2025-06-04T09:55:59+01:00

From a section of Robin Hood Gardens, to the only Frank Lloyd Wright interior found outside of the US and a pair of Zaha Hadid-designed shoes: the new V&A East Storehouse by Diller Scofidio + Renfro offers gallery-goers a new museum experience.

V&A East Storehouse2025-06-04T09:55:59+01:00

113 & 115 Redchurch Street

2025-05-29T11:54:03+01:00

No.113 and No.115 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, have been restored by Chris Dyson Architects after an in-depth analysis of the original weavers cottages influenced a restoration plan that paired a historic appreciation with contemporary living. 

113 & 115 Redchurch Street2025-05-29T11:54:03+01:00

Meanwhile Space

2025-05-23T09:08:58+01:00

Curated by Clare Dowdy and Helen Parton, Roca London Gallery’s latest exhibition explores the transformative potential of ‘meanwhile use’, a growing field in which architects and designers activate underused buildings during moments of urban flux.

Meanwhile Space2025-05-23T09:08:58+01:00

A Week at the Knees

2025-05-21T16:53:35+01:00

British artist Alex Chinneck’s latest surreal intervention, unveiled this week at Clerkenwell Design Week, reimagines a typical brick façade as a playful, freestanding arched structure.

A Week at the Knees2025-05-21T16:53:35+01:00

AT Business Breakfast: Shaping low-carbon practice from the inside out

2025-05-13T13:00:38+01:00

Architecture Today’s latest Business Breakfast brought together practice leaders to discuss the urgent need to decarbonise architecture’s operational models — and how internal infrastructure, shared values and new technologies are transforming the way we work.

AT Business Breakfast: Shaping low-carbon practice from the inside out2025-05-13T13:00:38+01:00

Pine Heath

2025-05-06T14:48:20+01:00

Studio Hagen Hall’s transformation of a Hampstead townhouse carefully restores its modernist character while sensitively upgrading its energy performance for contemporary family life.

Pine Heath2025-05-06T14:48:20+01:00
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