Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind wins the Architecture category of the Praemium Imperiale Awards – the 'Nobel Prize of the Arts', established to fulfil the wish of the late Prince Takamatsu of Japan "to contribute to the enhancement and promotion of the cultures and arts of the world."
Dulux announces Soulful Sage™ as its colour of the year
At a School of Specification webinar, Dulux has named Soulful Sage™ its Colour of the Year for 2027. Dawn Scott, Dulux Trade Senior Colour Designer at AkzoNobel explains how this soft, silvery green sits at the heart of three carefully developed colour palettes.
The Hummingbird Learning Lab: the winners
Invisible Studio and Studio 8FOLD have been selected as joint winners of the Hummingbird Learning Lab competition to design a learning environment that reflects a new approach to education.
Exploring sector-specific roofing solutions with IKO Town
David Coldham, Technical Director at IKO, discusses how roofing and waterproofing requirements vary across residential, industrial and education sectors, and explains how IKO Town is helping architects explore systems, specifications and technical guidance in a more interactive way.
Gary Clark, HKS
For Gary Clark of HKS using regenerative principles as a design driver yields long-term benefits, not just for communities and the environment, but for business too.
Designing for leisure: colour and paint specification in hotels and restaurants
Dulux Trade's Dawn Scott and Lee Crossland, in conversation with Architecture Today's Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discuss how considered colour specification and high-performance coating systems can help create memorable hospitality environments that combine strong visual identity with long-term durability.
Mandy Franz, MICA
Mandy Franz's approach to architecture has been shaped by the romantic castles and brutalist architecture of her East German childhood, Santiago Calatrava and a focus on striking a balance between respect for heritage and a hunger for progress.
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.
Dulux to reveal its Colour of the Year 2027
Join Dulux Senior Colour Designer Dawn Scott for an exclusive webinar revealing the Colour of the Year 2027 and the trends and palettes set to shape commercial interiors.
AT Workplace Webinar: Designing for people and planet
Join us on 10 September for an AT webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics, exploring how architects and designers are creating workplaces that support people, organisational needs and environmental responsibility.
Reserve your place for the launch of UK Architects Declare’s updated Regenerative Design Primer
As UK Architects Declare prepares to launch its updated Regenerative Design Primer at Regenerative Design 2026, Anna Pamphilon of Within Planetary Boundaries Studio explains why – if we are to bring people with us – regenerative practice must be collaborative and ambitious, but also hopeful and fun.
Dulux Colour of the Year
Dulux Senior Designer Dawn Scott will unveil the 2027 Colour of the Year on September 8th at an exclusive webinar and reveal the trends and supporting palettes set to influence commercial interiors.
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.
Pardini Hall
Elisa Pardini and Robert Hall's approach to architecture is shaped by a mix of English and Italian influences including the countryside around Lucca in Pardini's native Italy.
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.
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.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
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.
How Should We Innovate?
RIBA London Ethical Practice Special Interest Group to host a seminar entitled 'How Should We Innovate?' on the afternoon of Wednesday 7th October at the Building Centre in central London as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
Future Build: How Construction Can Heal Our Planet
Environmentalist and engineer Will Arnold launches the first public-facing non-fiction book on regenerative design at Regenerative Design 2026.
Yukta Chegu wins 2026 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
University of Bath student Yukta Chegu has won the 2026 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship for research exploring what global construction can learn from India’s informal material salvage economies.
Help the client: beyond business as usual
Beau Lotto of Hummingbird Learning Lab, Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio and Julia Barfield of Marks Barfield Architects are hosting an interactive brainstorm at Regenerative Design 2026, exploring how to help clients get radical projects off the ground and challenge the conventions that hinder collaborative, regenerative design.
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.
My Kind of Town: Farid Esmaeil
For X Architects founding partner Farid Esmaeil, Dubai is an extraordinary laboratory with a climate that demands a careful approach to materiality and passive design and a confidence that invites you to test ideas, challenge conventions and imagine architecture in new ways.
Watch the People’s Emergency Briefing at Regenerative Design 2026
Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare are hosting a screening of The People's Emergency Briefing on the evening of Wednesday 28th October at the Building Centre in central London as part of Regenerative Design 2026.