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Boršov Rye Mill
The conversion of a historic rye mill in Boršov nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, by mar.s architects brings together restored silos, new residential buildings and a redefined public square to create a distinctive, mixed-use riverside community.
Low-carbon craftsmanship
A long-held commitment to environmental responsibility, underpinned by rigorous quality control, informs Optima’s manufacture of glazed partitions and door systems.
Reflections: Fallingwater
John Pardey on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Bear Run, Philadelphia – a contextual and formal masterpiece that revived the architect’s career at age 67 and made him a household name across the world.
Reframing colour as a tool for architecture
Crown Paints discusses Colour Insights 2025/26, its latest research into the evolving role of colour in the built environment.
Collaborative practice: Delivering landmark projects
At an Architecture Today event at the Schüco showroom in London, architects, engineers and façade specialists behind two major projects – 76 Southbank and Belfast Grand Central Station – discussed what successful collaboration looks like when delivering large, complex buildings in demanding urban contexts.
Muse House
Rodić Davidson Architects’ Chelsea mews house unites domestic life with museum-grade conservation for a treasured couture collection.
Horizon Youth Zone
John Puttick Associates has completed a bold and ambitious youth hub in Grimsby, skilfully blending heritage retrofit with new-build construction.
Delivering regenerative masterplans
As pressures around climate, biodiversity, viability and governance intensify, a roundtable convened by Architecture Today and Max Fordham explored how early masterplanning choices can enable – or quietly foreclose – regenerative outcomes over decades.
Nederlands Fotomuseum
Renner Hainke Wirth Zirn Architekten and WDJArchitecten have transformed a listed early-20th-century coffee warehouse in Rotterdam into a spectacular new home for the Nederlands Fotomuseum.
Can wood be used in healthcare environments?
How can timber contribute to healing environments in hospitals? Jens Axelsson, architect at White Arkitekter, and Cristiana Caira, healthcare architect at White Arkitekter, discuss salutogenic design, the evidence behind wood and wellbeing, and the technical, cultural and regulatory barriers that still shape its use in healthcare buildings.
Florentia Village
Turner.Works has transformed a former textile manufacturing site in north London into a sustainable makers’ campus that combines refurbished industrial buildings with new creative workspaces.
Enclave: Acton
HTA Design’s 32-storey co-living tower in North Acton employs volumetric modular construction to deliver 462 compact homes above a reinstated neighbourhood pub.
Chris Williamson proposes ‘The Loop’
The President of the Royal Institute of British Architects sets out a proposal for a high-speed rail and energy infrastructure linking nine cities across the north of the British Isles to support long-term collaboration, economic development and regional connectivity.
VIDA Elementary School
OVA’s new school in Chýně, near Prague, combines formal and informal learning spaces with sports and community facilities, creating a flexible, courtyard-based campus that welcomes people of all ages.
Thinking beyond the façade
Schüco Sales Director Dan Gleeson talks to AT Technical Editor John Ramshaw about how the façade systems manufacturer is continuing to evolve its approach to regenerative design, long-term stewardship and being a good ancestor.
Melfield Gardens intergenerational living
A pair of Passivhaus buildings in Lewisham by Levitt Bernstein brings older residents and students into close proximity, using shared routes, gardens and flexible homes to test a new, fully affordable model of intergenerational living.
Hartdene Barns
Nissen Richards Studio’s transformation of a former dairy farm reinterprets agricultural forms to create a small collection of low-carbon homes on the Kent–East Sussex border.
Paving the way for success for England’s new towns
The announcement of the locations of the next generation of New Towns is a crucial milestone in tackling the UK's housing crisis. Arup's Vicky Evans identifies the steps that need to be taken for these projects to succeed.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Sownd Certification
Oscar Acoustics explores Sownd Certification, a world-first framework that enables architects to specify, evidence and communicate inclusive acoustic performance.
South Staffordshire College
Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt’s new town-centre campus for South Staffordshire College replaces a redundant department store with a civic-minded building that reconnects further education to the Tamworth historic centre.
Prayers and polymers: Níall McLaughlin on working with nuns
From invisible timber junctions to Newton spectra on chapel walls, Níall McLaughlin recalls a series of encounters with a community of nuns that quietly upend assumptions about faith, expertise and architectural value.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
Níall McLaughlin awarded 2026 Royal Gold Medal
The Irish architect, educator and writer has been recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects for a body of work defined by clarity, craft and a sustained commitment to the human experience of space.
Dispatches from Donegal: Pasparakis Friel
Based in rural Donegal, but shaped by decades of life and work across Europe, Sosie Pasparakis and Ronan Friel reflect on listening as a design tool, the quiet intelligence of a rural practice, and how memory, landscape and craft meet in projects that sit lightly and thoughtfully in their landscape.
Africa Hall restored
Architectus’ conservation and renewal of the United Nations’ Historic Africa Hall in Addis Ababa reasserts one of the defining works of African modernism as a functioning civic and diplomatic space.
Legal advice: Navigating the ARB’s new code
The ARB’s refreshed Architects’ Code identifies six overarching standards of professional behaviour. Regulatory solicitors Ben Hall and Chloe Wynne advise architects on how to protect themselves against accusations of breaching professional standards.
Michael Pawlyn’s Biomimicry in Architecture: essential reading for 2026
The latest iteration of Michael Pawlyn's Biomimicry in Architecture combines technical expertise and analysis with the emotional narratives required to imagine and precipitate more life-affirming futures.
AT Webinar: Sound, light and air
Join us on Wednesday 25th February to explore how architects and specialists are balancing sound, light and air to create healthier, more comfortable buildings, examining daylighting, ventilation and acoustic strategies that support wellbeing, inclusivity and environmental performance without compromising energy and carbon goals.
