Alison Brooks Architects' residential development in King's Cross draws inspiration from the Victorian exuberance of St Pancras Station, while embracing offsite manufacturing to deliver a wholly contemporary building. We spoke to Alison Brooks about arches, architectural expression and the building’s modern methods of construction.
Zaha Hadid Foundation’s new home
Studio KA has refurbished Zaha Hadid’s former Clerkenwell studio, transforming the Grade II-listed Victorian schoolhouse into a public centre for architecture and design, with galleries, exhibition spaces and facilities for education and research.
Holborn Viaduct
PLP Architecture’s 13-storey office building in the City of London combines flexible workspaces with new public connections, responding to the neighbouring Grade II-listed gatehouse and the site’s complex archaeological history.
Streatham & Marlborough Cricket Club
Andy Matthews Studio has completed a cricket pavilion in south London, reinventing the traditional clubhouse as a compact, year-round community building rooted in its parkland setting.
Bringing light from above
VELUX explores how carefully considered roof window design can bring daylight deeper into open-plan residential extensions, creating brighter and more comfortable and adaptable living spaces.
Altyre Street
Page\Park’s affordable housing development for Tollcross Housing Association transforms a vacant brownfield site in Glasgow’s East End into a new residential neighbourhood, with 42 homes arranged around a pedestrian-friendly street and shared green spaces.
Kidbrooke Park Road
HTA Design has completed Kidbrooke Park Road in south London, delivering 452 homes for social rent across a landscape-led neighbourhood of brick buildings, gardens and community spaces.
Ask the expert: Managing moisture in retrofit projects
Pamela Howatt, Senior Technical Advisor at A Proctor Group, answers readers' questions on balancing insulation, airtightness and moisture management when upgrading existing buildings.
Specifying better buildings with aerogel insulation
Proctor Group's Technical Director, Iain Fairnington, explains how advancements in materials and construction technology have made it easier to address building envelope heat losses with thinner, better-performing insulation products.
Performance by design
Kingfisher Louvres explores the role of aluminium louvre systems in delivering ventilation, screening and architectural consistency across different building types.
Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts
Foster + Partners’ extension to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in Spain introduces a dramatic elevated structure that spans the existing buildings, creating new exhibition spaces and a public atrium while bringing together more than 80 years of architectural history.
The Ambitious Client: Beyond business as usual
At Regenerative Design 2026, six speakers explored how architects, clients and consultants can challenge conventional approaches to collaboration, procurement and project delivery to realise ambitious projects that deliver lasting environmental, social and economic value.
Bringing colour to industry
Euroclad's Vieo standing seam roofing and cladding systems combine bold architectural expression with energy-efficient performance at AHR Architects’ Whitchurch Enterprise Park in Bristol.
Sociophilic design: creating places that connect people
Forming part of Regenerative Design 2026, Architecture Today and HKS hosted a round table discussion exploring how sociophilic design can strengthen social connections, tackle loneliness and create more inclusive places.
Delivering carbon reduction in concrete
Heidelberg Materials explores how advances in carbon capture technology and lower-carbon concrete are helping architects and specifiers reduce embodied carbon without compromising structural performance.
Why bamboo? A UK Bamboo Summit Spotlight Event
Architects, engineers, designers and researchers came together at Regenerative Design 2026 to explore bamboo’s potential as a mainstream low-carbon construction material, and the challenges of bringing it into wider use in the UK.
Tree Stories (and some grass): Neil Thomas on learning from nature
At Regenerative Design 2026, Atelier One founder Neil Thomas explored how trees, bamboo and the natural world can transform our approach to structural engineering, materials and design, with contributions from artist Barnaby Steel, pianist Sarah Nicolls and Atelier One’s Ralf Saade.
Circularity and closed loop design
As part of Regenerative Design 2026, Architecture Today, in partnership with Heidelberg Materials, hosted a round table discussion exploring the barriers to closed loop design and the opportunities for systemic change.
Join Julia Barfield – and learn how to work with ambitious clients to get pioneering projects off the ground – at Regenerative Design 2026
Julia Barfield will share insights and experience from a career spent designing, delivering – and helping to secure funding for – pioneering projects for ambitious clients at a free-to-attend seminar on the morning of Tuesday 27th October at the Building Centre in central London as part of RD26.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
AT Webinar: Submitting smarter planning applications
Join us on Wednesday 18th November to discover how Planning Portal's new AI-powered Application Check tool can help architects identify potential issues with planning applications before submission, reducing avoidable validation issues and the need for further rework.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Anna Hollyman on driving systemic change at RD26
Anna Hollyman, Co-Director of Policy and Industry Intelligence at UKGBC, sets out why scaling the use of natural and sustainable materials demands a coordinated approach to policy, procurement, skills and supply chains. Watch Anna's talk in full here.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Rowland Keable on the potential of earth at RD26
Rowland Keable, Director of Rammed Earth Consulting, makes the case for earth as an overlooked construction material, demonstrating how locally-sourced clay and soil can create durable, adaptable and genuinely circular buildings. Find out more by watching Rowland's talk here.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Jordan Panayi on building with structural stone
Jordan Panayi, Part II Architectural Assistant at Groupwork, explores how structural stone and timber can replace carbon-intensive construction systems, drawing on the practice's experience of designing and delivering buildings with natural materials. Watch Jordan's talk here.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Eleonora Regni on engineering with stone at RD26
Eleonora Regni, Associate at Webb Yates Engineers, examines the structural potential of natural stone, explaining how innovative engineering can reduce embodied carbon without compromising performance. Find out more by watching Eleonora's talk here.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Siri Zanelli on making natural materials work in practice
Siri Zanelli, Founding Partner of Collective Works, shares practical lessons from specifying natural materials, exploring how architects can overcome barriers relating to cost, regulation, construction methods and client expectations. Watch Siri's talk in full here.
Specifying natural and sustainable materials: Lee Fox on putting circular construction into practice
Lee Fox, project architect at BakerBrown Studio, shares lessons from the Bradbury Den project, showing how material reuse, straw bales, and locally-sourced earth can be incorporated into a modestly funded education building. Watch Lee's talk here.
Mary Duggan and Paul Ruff reflect on Stirling Prize win
Following Lion Green Road's 2026 RIBA Stirling Prize win, Mary Duggan and Paul Ruff reflect on the importance of generous, affordable housing and the wider lessons the project offers for the profession.
Circularity and intelligent specification
Forming part of Regenerative Design 2026, Architecture Today, in partnership with Interface, hosted a round table discussion exploring how circular design, material reuse and more intelligent specification can become standard practice across the construction industry.