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.
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.
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.
A new circular aesthetic
Optima Systems highlights practical steps for the reuse of office partitions.
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.
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.
Beyond carbon: Methods, materials and measures for sustainable and regenerative practice
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics and Vectorworks, exploring how architects can move beyond carbon metrics to deliver projects that are genuinely sustainable and regenerative.
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.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Dublin City Dialogue: an exchange of ideas for sustainable growth
An AT event, supported by Schüco and hosted by the Royal Irish Academy of Music, explored the challenges and opportunities facing Irish cities, and what can they learn from each other and from best practice abroad.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Hopkins Architects have designed the University of Oxford's largest single building project, opening to students in October 2025, and to the public in April 2026.
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.
