Set on a steep triangular site above the Shimna river in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, McGonigle McGrath's Tollymore house steps six separate volumes down towards the water, trading the conventional continuity of a family home for a domestic landscape that rests in the spaces between nature and dwelling.
Tullie Museum
De Matos Ryan has reworked Carlisle’s Tullie Museum, creating a new entrance, gallery, community spaces and shop aimed at strengthening the building’s relationship with the city.
Brooke House
GRID architects has completed 102 affordable homes for Women’s Pioneer Housing in west London, combining increased density with dual-aspect living and a landscape designed around mature trees.
Harrow on the Hill
Inglis Badrashi Loddo has transformed a Grade II-listed former council building in north-west London into five apartments.
Čebín Primary School
Knesl Kynčl Architekti has transformed a 1970s village shop near Brno into a compact primary school, reusing its existing structure while preparing the building for future expansion and local energy sharing.
6 The Square, Liphook
Stedman Blower has restored a 450-year-old former post office in Liphook, Hampshire. Architectural historian Kenneth Powell explains how a characterful new home has been created for the practice as it secures the building’s future.
A Memorial Forest
Studio Wignall & Moore has created a memorial landscape at Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey, commemorating more than 400 First World War service personnel whose graves were never formally identified.
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Crystal Palace Park
HTA Design, Bromley Council and Crystal Palace Park Trust have delivered the first major phase of Crystal Palace Park’s regeneration, restoring its celebrated dinosaur sculptures and Italian Terraces while introducing new landscapes, visitor facilities and routes through the Grade-II* listed park.
Crystal Palace Park Visitor Centre
Tate + Co and HTA Design have completed a timber-framed visitor centre for London’s Crystal Palace Park, combining adaptable community and exhibition spaces with the reuse of the previous building’s foundations.
Greenheys
BDP has completed a major laboratory and research building at Manchester Science Park, providing a new HQ for UK Biobank and flexible specialist facilities for the city’s growing life sciences sector.
New Story Garden
Jan Kattein Architects and Global Generation have transformed a former railway storage site at London’s King’s Cross into a permanent ecology garden, built from natural and reclaimed materials with the help of more than 3,000 volunteers.
Tournesol swimming pool
Studio Arcos B has reworked one of France’s distinctive 1970s Tournesol swimming pools, preserving Bernard Schoeller’s prefabricated domed structure as the centrepiece of a more sustainable and accessible leisure complex.
All change at Bank
Studio Weave’s transformation of one of the City of London’s oldest and busiest interchanges creates a more generous pedestrian environment while enhancing the setting of the Bank of England, Mansion House and Royal Exchange.
RD26: Why Regenerative Design? Why this conversation matters now
The future of the built environment demands more than sustainability. For years, those in the built environment have focused on reducing harm by lowering carbon, improving energy performance and cutting waste. Those ambitions remain vital, but today's environmental and social challenges demand something more.
Materials library: BakerBrown
Duncan Baker-Brown, Tom Cuthbert, and Hannah Foreman discuss the practice’s circular approach to materiality, from urban mining and harvest mapping to designing buildings as future material stores.
Feltham Green Cabin
A trio of conical timber roofs crowns Burgess Architects' compact community cabin in Feltham, creating a distinctive civic landmark from a modest footprint.
Benedictine Monastery Education & Retreat Centre, Kylemore Abbey
Axo Architects has designed a Benedictine monastery on the edge of Pollacappul Lough in Connemara, County Galway – the first female monastery to be built in Ireland for over 400 years. Cormac Murray enjoys the understated confidence of a contemplative building informed by a nuanced response to context and a long-standing relationship between architect and client.
Shenzhen Natural History Museum
Rising from the landscape beside Yanzi Lake, Shenzhen Natural History Museum by 3XN, B+H Architects and Zhubo Design establishes a new cultural landmark for South China while blurring the boundaries between museum, landscape and public space.
House in a clearing
TaylorHare’s low-lying family home in East Sussex brings together a series of corrugated metal volumes and sheltered courtyards, embedding the building within its woodland setting.
Cork Loft
Office S&M has transformed a neglected Victorian house in east London with a loft extension built almost entirely from cork, demonstrating the material's architectural, environmental and aesthetic potential.
Braemar Mountain Rescue Centre
Moxon Architects has renovated Scotland's first dedicated mountain rescue base in the Cairngorms National Park, extending and refurbishing the facility to create a robust operational hub that improves welfare, training and emergency response while respecting the character of its rural surroundings.
De Beauvoir Townhouse
Mosley Thorold’s transformation of a Victorian townhouse in east London reshapes the home around light, movement and materiality, employing carefully reconfigured interiors with reclaimed craftwork to create a calm retreat for everyday living and entertaining.
Lifeline Community Centre
Assemble has transformed a pair of former United Dairies warehouses on the Becontree Estate in Dagenham into a flexible community hub for LifeLine Church and Community Resources.
Moon House
Office S&M has turned a dark Victorian townhouse in Kensington into a light-filled home for two art collectors. A three-storey rear extension, bespoke architectural interventions and commissioned artworks combine to create a house that functions equally as a family home and a carefully curated gallery.
Free photography workshop at Art Deco Marine Court and architectural walking tour of Burton’s St Leonard’s for RAI members
RAI members are invited to join Timothy Soar's free-to-attend photography workshop at one of the UK's most iconic Art Deco seaside buildings – and enjoy a bespoke walking tour of the architectural highlights of St Leonard's-on-Sea.
White Breakers
Unknown Works has retrofitted a modest coastal bungalow in Pembrokeshire, transforming it into a low-energy family home that responds sensitively to its National Park setting.
Fishermen’s Rest
Italian practice gosplan has revitalised a historic stretch of Camogli Harbour in Liguria, creating a carefully crafted public realm that celebrates the enduring relationship between the fishing village, its working waterfront and everyday civic life.
100 Fetter Lane
Fletcher Priest Architects’ new London headquarters is a low-impact workplace that prioritises reuse, adaptability and wellbeing, while also showcasing the practice’s circular design principles.
Moof Fitness Studio
A demountable gym concept by Madrid-based practice Canobardin uses a simple kit of parts to create a calm adaptable environment that can be replicated across multiple locations.
Pall Mall
Sheppard Robson has transformed Manchester’s Grade II-listed Pall Mall from an ageing post-war office block into a high-performance workplace, carefully reconstructing its Modernist façade while introducing new public spaces, flexible interiors and a fabric-first retrofit strategy.
Sawtooth House
Francesco Pierazzi Architects has transformed an ageing extension to a Victorian house in Kingston upon Thames into a light-filled, low-energy family home. Drawing on the area's industrial heritage, the project combines a distinctive sawtooth roof profile with deep retrofit measures to create a playful yet highly sustainable domestic environment.