Sandy Rendel has designed an intergenerational family home in the leafy village of Cuckfield, West Sussex. John Pardey locates the project within a history of one-off houses that are meaningful, modest, and very much of their time.
Kosmalt
A former 1960s workers’ dormitory in Košice, Slovakia, has been reimagined by local practice Atrium Architekti as a model for the adaptive reuse of socialist-era housing.
University of Limerick Student Centre
Cotter & Naessens' long awaited Student Centre at The University of Limerick opens as a place of conversation, community and exchange, operating somewhere between public forum and student living room.
On the Bay
Set between a traditional shoreline cottage and the Atlantic edge of Galway Bay, ALWA’s low-slung pavilion extension balances exposure and shelter through a restrained architecture that carefully recalibrates the relationship between house, landscape and sea.
Resurrection of the Sudetenland
Prague-based No Architects transform a derelict homestead in the Ora Mountains into a robust and playful retreat, proposing a contemporary model for resistant and environmental design in challenging climates.
Žďár Wooden Housing
Kuba & Pilař architekti’s multi-storey timber housing in Žďár nad Sázavou reinterprets the traditional urban block to deliver affordable rental homes organised around a layered sequence of public and private spaces.
Royal Dornoch Golf Clubhouse
Keppie Design’s new clubhouse for Royal Dornoch Golf Club responds to one of golf’s most historic settings with a building that draws on local materials, landscape and civic tradition to create a contemporary home for the club.
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Muzeul Ivan Patzaichin
An extraordinary museum and community centre in Romania’s Danube Delta locks into the sustainable networks of one of Europe’s last great wildernesses to support the culture and the future of the Lipovan people
VELUX LKR Innovation House
Praksis Arkitekter’s transformation of a 30-year-old timber warehouse in Østbirk, Denmark, into a research and development hub for the VELUX Group demonstrates how daylight, material reuse and deep retrofit can deliver a flexible, low-carbon workplace.
Millport Town Hall
O’Donnell Brown has worked with local campaigners to transform a neglected 19th-century town hall on the Scottish island of Cumbrae into a thriving centre for community life.
Agrosemillas Offices
Impepinable Studio’s workplace for a seed production company in rural Cuenca, Spain, uses repurposed shipping containers and locally sourced construction methods to create a flexible, light-filled environment that bridges agricultural production and technological innovation.
Tipping Point East – free study trip for RAI members
Architecture Today has teamed up with the UK’s first circular construction hub to organise an opportunity for members of the Regenerative Architecture Index to visit its site in London’s Royal Docks.
Kehai House
HW STUDIO’s Kehai House in Morelia, Mexico, places a Japanese-inspired garden at the heart of a compact plan, and uses spatial clarity and controlled light to shape a contemplative interior.
The Arts Theatre Cambridge
Ian Chalk Architects has refurbished Cambridge’s historic Arts Theatre, renewing the venue’s auditorium and backstage areas, balancing technical upgrade with the preservation of intimacy, craftsmanship and acoustic performance.
Dinosaur Playground, Crystal Palace Park
HTA Design’s new play landscape for Crystal Palace Park draws on the site’s 19th-century ‘journey through time’ concept to create an immersive environment that combines education, accessibility and imaginative play within a wider programme of park regeneration.
RAI: partner update
RAI partner Schüco UK introduces Schüco low carbon aluminium as standard across all aluminium profiles.
Curtidores 32
JOTAJOTA+ reimagines a Madrid mattress store as a sequence of domestic interiors, using spatial choreography, material contrast and layered thresholds to reinvent the retail experience.
Cabin Devín
Ark-Shelter and Archekta’s 20 m² off-grid retreat at the edge of the Zlatý Roh vineyards above Devín Castle compresses full domestic function into a single modular volume, operating year-round without connection to mains services while opening almost entirely to the surrounding landscape.
Gígur Visitor Centre
Nissen Richards Studio and SP(R)INT Studio's permanent exhibition and interior design for a visitor centre at Lake Mývatn uses Iceland's volcanic landscape as both subject and setting, creating an immersive environment that draws geology, ecology and culture into a single, coherent experience.
New Museum extension, New York
New York’s New Museum has a new extension. Designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) with executive architect Cooper Robertson, the expansion addresses the institution’s desire for increased capacity to host its growing public programme.
Theatr Clwyd
Haworth Tompkins’ comprehensive renewal of a Grade II-listed theatre in North Wales reimagines a 1970s arts complex as an open, accessible and low-carbon cultural hub rooted in its rural setting.
Can using ultra-modern building techniques improve the viability of PBSA schemes?
'The Future of Student Living', a panel discussion hosted by Walsh on 19 March, looked at two recent PBSA projects whose viability has been positively impacted by engineering design.
Jevany Villa
Located on a steeply sloping site in Jevany, Czech Republic, Architektura has completed a visually-striking house that employs sectional design and a robust material palette to frame views and connect domestic life with the surrounding forest.
Vault Youth Zone
John Puttick Associates’ multi-storey youth centre for OnSide draws on Preston’s brutalist heritage to deliver a new civic landmark that treats its young members with ambition and respect.
Box Library
U-Build has launched the Box Library, a pioneering initiative based at BLOQS in northeast London, that enables modular timber components to be borrowed, reused and returned for temporary construction.
Folgate Building
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has reworked and extended a 1980s office building in London’s Spitalfields, retaining 88 per cent of its structure to deliver a low-carbon, contextually-responsive workplace.
West London House
Goldstein Heather has skilfully reworked a narrow, end-of-terrace Victorian house in Stamford Brook, creating a light-filled, interconnected family home, designed to support multigenerational living.
Strážné Cottage
Mimosa Architects’ mountain cottage in the Krkonoše village of Strážné reinterprets the spatial principles and material character of traditional alpine dwellings, creating a contemporary family retreat rooted in the landscape and craft traditions of the region.
Kao La Amani Children’s Village
At the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro in Boma Ng’ombe, Tanzania, Article 25 has completed a climate-responsive off-grid settlement designed to provide long-term care, stability and a community for orphaned children.
Senior Citizens’ Home
Architektura’s brick-built retirement home for the Town of Nový Bydžov reinterprets the orchard, cemetery walls and open Central Bohemian landscape to create four courtyard households arranged around light-filled atriums.
Haberdashers’ Monmouth School Masterplan
Levitt Bernstein’s comprehensive retrofit and decarbonisation strategy for Haberdashers’ Monmouth School in Wales transforms six buildings across three town sites, unlocking the potential of existing assets to support a newly co-educational model and a clear path to Net Zero Carbon.