Materials library: Knox Bhavan Architects
AT Editor2024-12-18T13:24:05+00:00Sasha Bhavan and Ben Hair reflect on how issues relating to sustainability, reuse, and modern methods of construction, are reshaping the practice’s approach to materiality.
A primer for regenerative design
AT Editor2024-04-05T16:01:28+01:00UK Architects Declare has published a 43-page guide, the Regenerative Design Primer, to help architects and other designers lead the transition towards regenerative design.
Dispatches from the Buildings and Climate Global Forum: Anica Landreneau
AT Editor2024-03-27T11:46:42+00:00AT chats to Anica Landreneau, Director of Sustainable Design at HOK about the Buildings and Climate Global Forum which took place in Paris.
Can we trust in timber? What certification really means in material specification
AT Editor2024-04-16T13:44:39+01:00Dan Pope, architect at THISS Studio, discusses the importance of responsible timber specification, highlighting the complexities of certification systems, prompting a critical reevaluation of sourcing practices and verification methods.
Dispatches from UK Architects Declare: Michael Pawlyn
Isabel Allen2024-02-21T12:54:39+00:00Michael Pawlyn talks to Architecture Today about post-apocalyptic London, the Regenerative Architecture Index and encouraging clients to focus on their long-term legacy.
Dispatches from Lewes: Joanna Yarrow
Isabel Allen2024-02-20T11:43:08+00:00Joanna Yarrow talks to Architecture Today about getting planning consent for the 685-home Phoenix Project, and the challenges involved in delivering the biggest timber-structure neighbourhood in the UK.
Dispatches: Chris Williamson
Isabel Allen2024-02-12T11:58:11+00:00AT chats to... Chris Williamson – RIBA presidential candidate and the most optimistic man in architecture – about writing plays, public service and channelling his inner Madmen.
Dispatches from UK Architects Declare: Anna Lisa McSweeney
Isabel Allen2024-03-21T10:28:31+00:00Anna Lisa McSweeney talks to Architecture Today about educating politicians, the Regenerative Architecture Index and why every practice has a part to play.
Dispatches from Madrid: Norman Foster
Isabel Allen2024-02-06T15:34:18+00:00Norman Foster talks to Architecture Today about his mission to educate a new generation of urban innovators and city leaders.
Stewardship: an alternative route to popular and sustainable placemaking
Jason Sayer2024-01-31T10:09:39+00:00Hugh Petter, director at ADAM Architecture outlines how a stewardship-led approach to development can further socially integrated, resilient and sustainable communities.
Assessing the true cost of circular design
AT Editor2024-01-25T10:23:58+00:00Jonny Plant, director at Corstorphine & Wright, explores the circular design principles behind and ‘true cost’ of the practice’s Unusual Rigging headquarters building in Northamptonshire, which is due to complete in the summer.