Jonathan Falkingham, co-founder and creative director of Urban Splash and Jackie Gillespie of Gillespie Yunnie Architects discuss the challenges and joys of working with, rather than against, the 200-year-old Mills Bakery in Plymouth – winner of the Mixed Use Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025.
AT Webinar: Striking the balance with heritage assets
Join us on Wednesday 25th March to explore how heritage asset owners and designers can balance conservation requirements with modern expectations for comfort, energy performance and long-term stewardship in sensitive historic contexts.
Standing the test of time: Kentish Town Health Centre
Paul Monaghan from Allford Hall Monaghan Morris reflects on the enduring success of Kentish Town Health Centre – Healthcare Award winner at the Test of Time Awards 2025 – with David Ransley, practice manager during the project’s conception and delivery.
The colour of clay
Michelmersh explores how pastel, traditional and monochrome clay bricks shape architectural identity, helping designers balance context, character and contemporary expression.
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.
Westwind
Architect Madeleine Kivell’s reworking of her London home demonstrates how VELUX roof windows can create a ‘lightbox effect’, drawing daylight deep into the plan to support privacy, wellbeing and family life.
The Hummingbird Learning Lab: the longlist
The Hummingbird Learning Lab has selected a longlist of eight practices from the Regenerative Architecture Index for its competition to design a demountable learning space that reflects its neuroscience-grounded approach to education and community engagement.
Expanding the palette
HIMACS introduces 15 new colours to its solid surfaces portfolio for 2026, offering architects greater aesthetic freedom alongside proven performance and sustainability credentials.
Dispatches from Architects Declare: Anna Woodeson
Anna Woodeson, Sustainability Director at Buro Happold and a Trustee at Architects Declare, spells out what's wrong with the latest proposals for the National Planning Policy Framework NPPF, and explains how architects can engage with the process and make their voices heard.
Barr Gazetas
Having scored the highest of any UK-based architecture practice when receiving B-corp certification in 2024, Barr Gazetas is reinventing practice by proving commercial retrofit can be radically ethical, delivering lasting value for clients, communities and the public realm.
Sound, light and air
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics and The Rooflight Co, exploring how architects and construction specialists are balancing environmental comfort with performance and inclusivity.
Standing the test of time: Great Bow Yard
Rob Delius from Stride Treglown and long-standing resident Kristian Coleman explain how Great Bow Yard in Langport, Somerset – Residential Award winner at the Test of Time Awards 2025 – has settled into its landscape, and why its residents never want to leave.
Standing the test of time: Mills Bakery
Jonathan Falkingham, co-founder and creative director of Urban Splash and Jackie Gillespie of Gillespie Yunnie Architects discuss the challenges and joys of working with, rather than against, the 200-year-old Mills Bakery in Plymouth – winner of the Mixed Use Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025.
Orchard House
Studio Bark’s modest Paragraph 84 home in the Cheshire Green Belt re-establishes a historic orchard while delivering a low-impact family house rooted in landscape, memory and environmental rigour.
The cost of compliance
New research from wienerberger highlights the need for greater product transparency as architects navigate the careful balance between creativity and compliance.
Quayside Watersports Centre
On the banks of the River Liffey, Dublin's first public watersports centre by Urban Agency, transforms a stretch of the North Quay into an accessible and resilient public space, recasting the river as an active and usable asset to the city.
Dispatches from Malawi: John McAslan + Partners
Construction of Kamuzu University of Health Sciences’ dental school by John McAslan + Partners has begun, becoming Malawi’s first faculty of its kind.
The power of colour
wienerberger explores why colour remains the primary driver in brick selection, and how architects are balancing visual identity with durability and embodied carbon in today’s evolving specification landscape.
Entries open for the 2026 Test of Time Awards
Do you have a project that's continued to perform after completion? If so, the AT Test of Time Awards are for you. Start your entry today.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
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.
O House
Lawrence and Long Architects reimagine traditional approaches to constrained mew sites by carving an internal courtyard from a square, timber structure, creating a house nested around a garden: carefully balancing privacy and openness in a tight urban setting.
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.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
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.
