Appleby Blue Almshouse wins the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize
Appleby Blue Almshouse wins the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize

Appleby Blue Almshouse in Southwark, by Witherford Watson Mann Architects for United St Saviour’s Charity, has won the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize.

Quiet confidence

As offices adapt to hybrid working, acoustic control has become essential for comfort and certification. Optima outlines why independently verified data is critical for specifying glass partitions and doors that perform as designed.

Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture

Exploration Architecture's founder Michael Pawlyn talks about biologically-inspired design approaches, moving beyond PassivHaus to an ideal of  ActiveHaus and discussing company policy while making hedgerow jam.

Customised roof glazing for architects

Whitesales explains how its made-to-measure roof glazing systems enable architects to realise distinctive daylighting designs – from contemporary roofscapes to sensitive heritage settings – with assured performance and reliable delivery.

Take A Bow Opportunity Centre

O’DonnellBrown has reimagined a 1970s community building as a performing arts and youth centre in Kilmarnock, Scotland.

Broadfields Estate

RCKa has completed 28 affordable rented apartments for Barnet Council within the Broadfields Estate in Edgware.

Bauder expands its UK presence

Bauder’s new 4,100-square-metre distribution centre near Ipswich has strengthened its national distribution and sustainability efforts.

Timber inspiration and knowledge in partnership with James Latham

Reflections: The Crystal Palace

John Pardey on how Joseph Paxton’s pioneering Crystal Palace for Great Exhibition of 1851 marked the end of millennia of masonry and timber construction, ushering in a new era of light, span and prefabrication that would redefine architecture in the age of industry.

Power Hall

Carmody Groarke has completed the refurbishment of the Power Hall at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum, combining heritage restoration with decarbonisation measures to create a more accessible and environmentally efficient museum.

Two systems, one VEKA standard

VEKA discusses how its M70 and OMNIA PVCu window and door systems combine contemporary aesthetics with outstanding thermal performance and sustainable manufacturing.

Architecture Today September-October 2025

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Dispatches from Shanghai: Rachaporn Choochuey

Bangkok-based architect Rachaporn Choochuey, co-founder of all(zone), discusses her curatorial approach for the Rockbund Art Museum’s biennial festival of architectural thinking, RAM Assembles 2025. Titled Shanghai Picnic, the biennial explores how informal, spontaneous public life can be rekindled in one of Shanghai’s most meticulously restored and highly regulated urban environments.

Introducing the September-October 2025 issue of Architecture Today

In this issue: The Regenerative Architecture Index 2025 unveiled; Material Cultures, Purcell, and Marks Barfield on regenerative practice; Collective Works and Jan Kattein Architects on creating a just space for people; and Beau Lotto on why Bruton is his kind of town.

Reinventing practice

Remembering Terry Farrell

Sir Terry Farrell's son, Max, along with current and former senior staff at the practice Peter Barbalov, Stefan Krummeck and Nigel Bidwell look back on life with the late Terry Farrell, a "titan of design" and a man of "intellect, instinct, humility and heart."

My Kind of Town: Beau Lotto

Beau Lotto on how Bruton's unique mix of culture and community fosters discovery and connection – and why this small Somerset town provides the perfect setting for a new kind of school rooted in interaction, meaning and curiosity.

Regenerative Architecture Index 2025

An event celebrating the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI), hosted by UK Architects Declare and Architecture Today in partnership with Schüco, took place on 2 October at Broadway Malyan’s London office.

ISoRaRA: the shortlist

The Wildheart Trust has selected a shortlist of three practices from the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index to design the International School of Rewilding and Regenerative Agriculture at Sandown on the Isle of Wight: Marks Barfield Architects, BakerBrown Studio and Unknown Works. CEO Lawrence Bates explains what made the practices stand out.

Dispatches from Folkestone

AT chats to Duarte Lobo Antunes and Jack Taylor from A is for Architecture about their Folkestone Harbour plan which has recently been granted planning permission.

Roofing inspiration and knowledge
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)

VMZINC Gallery 2025

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The Court Theatre

Haworth Tompkins and Athfield Architects’ theatre in central Christchurch brings New Zealand’s largest producing company back to the city centre, combining craft, performance, and community under one roof.

Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers

Design smarter, build faster

James Hardie explains how its fermacell® fibre gypsum boards streamline installation without compromising performance.

The Spencer Building

Wright & Wright Architects has completed a pioneering Passivhaus library for Corpus Christi College, Oxford, balancing contemporary environmental standards with contextual sensitivity.

In pictures: The AT Awards Live Finals

The Architecture Today Awards Live Finals saw 30 projects presented in front of a live audience including the jury. Here's how the day panned out and what those involved had to say.

Remembering Nick Grimshaw

Grimshaw Partners Andrew Whalley and Neven Sidor reflect on Nick Grimshaw’s pragmatism and quirks, and recall conversations after “several hours and several rounds of scotch and dry ginger.”

Shoemakers Museum

Purcell completes the Shoemakers Museum: a new home for Clarks’ 200-year legacy and a civic anchor for the Somerset town of Street. 

Little Star Kindergarten

A compact two-classroom building by ČTYŘSTĚN brings sheltered gardens, rooftop play space and vibrant interiors to a tight residential site in Šlapanice.

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