Sarah Featherstone explains how a modest community building in Grangetown, Cardiff, challenges the way we define and measure value and shows how universities can partner with local residents to facilitate community-led projects.
Jonathan Spratt from Bennetts Associates argues that, for ‘young’ buildings from the 1990s and early 2000s architects should steer clients away from a comprehensive retrofit approach towards a strategy of ‘keyhole surgery’ – minimal interventions that have a transformative effect.
BDP’s skilful reworking of Leighton House has breathed new life into one of London’s forgotten museums, the former home of artist Frederic Leighton.
Watch the AT CPD webinar, in partnership with Sto Ltd, exploring how to correctly design and specify glass rainscreen facades for public spaces.
Max Fordham’s north London house has become the first residential building in the UK to be verified as net zero carbon, making it a fitting tribute to the late great sustainable design pioneer.
Erbar Mattes Architects has skilfully remodelled a former pub in north London to create a home for an expanding family.
Murado & Elvira Arquitectos has designed a long and narrow house in Madrid, with a footprint that is just 4 metres wide to accommodate a pool and garden on the narrow site.
Kingston University London – Town House by Grafton Architects has won the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize.
Grafton Architects’ Kingston University Town House fosters connections between students, the institution and the city, finds Louis Mayes.
Page\Park Architects has sensitively refurbished and extended a post-war church designed by Gillespie Kidd & Coia near Glasgow.
Wright & Wright Architects has skilfully reworked London’s Museum of the Home, revitalising and extending the assemblage of 300-year-old almshouses the interiors museum occupies.
HTA Design has completed the world’s tallest modular residential building in Croydon, south London.
