Architecture Today has launched Regenerative Design 2026, a month-long programme of exhibitions and events at the Building Centre in central London.
Regenerative Architecture Index 2026: front-runners announced
The front-runners in this year's Regenerative Architecture Index were announced on Thursday 1st October at the launch party for Regenerative Design 2026.
Introducing the September-October 2026 issue of Architecture Today
In this issue: The Regenerative Architecture Index 2026 is unveiled; Collective Architecture's Gerry Hogan and Studio Saar on being good ancestors; Ian Poole from Elliott Wood and Neil Thomas from Atelier One on co-evolving with nature, Birds Portchmouth Russum and DSDHA's Tom Greenall and Nicole Abernethy on creating just spaces for people; and Stephen O'Malley on why Dublin is his kind of town.
Prague Fire Rescue Service
Architektura has completed a new headquarters for Prague’s Fire Rescue Service, combining robust civic infrastructure with a slender red tower that anchors the organisation’s Holešovice campus.
Design Museum Gent
Carmody Groarke, ATAMA and RE-ST have skilfully reworked Design Museum Gent, adding a five-storey wing that completes its historic courtyard and opens the institution more directly to the city.
Learning from what works
AHMM Associate Director and Head of Sustainability Craig Robertson talks to AT about supporting the Regenerative Design 2026 Case Studies exhibition, sharing knowledge across the profession, and the practice’s journey towards regenerative design.
AT CPD Webinar: Sustainable Roofing Initiatives
Join us on Wednesday 21st October at 10am to learn with Sika how green, blue, solar and BioSolar roof systems can support biodiversity, rainwater management and renewable energy generation, while meeting key design, maintenance and fire safety requirements.
Your best acoustic work is sitting in a PDF
Energy performance gets a certificate. Acoustic performance gets a report in a project folder. A new independent standard, already being used by the likes of dMFK and Tyréns Hilson Moran, aims to change that, starting with buildings that are already finished.
More than 100 regenerative case studies to go on show at RD26
At Regenerative Design 2026 you can see a major free exhibition bringing together work from more than 100 practices in this year’s Regenerative Architecture Index.
Designing as nature
Ahead of his keynote talk for Regenerative Design 2026, Michael Pawlyn, founder of Exploration Architecture, explores how rethinking our relationship with nature could help unlock the systemic change needed for regenerative design.
Mike Russum
For Mike Russum of Birds Portchmouth Russum, regeneration starts with joy: bringing together climate, water, planting and biomimicry to create adaptable places that work more like healthy ecosystems than isolated buildings.
Passive fire protection
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Promat, exploring how architects, engineers, manufacturers and legal specialists are addressing the challenges of integrating passive fire protection into retrofit, renovation and change-of-use projects.
Ask the expert: Fenestration specification and balancing Part L and Part O
Tim James, National Specification Manager at VEKA, answers readers’ questions on balancing thermal performance and overheating when specifying windows and doors under Part L and Part O of the Building Regulations.
Gerry Hogan
Gerry Hogan of Collective Architecture asks what it means to be a steward rather than an owner, embedding social and environmental responsibility in the practice’s legal structure, succession and everyday culture.
Neil Thomas
Bamboo: vegetable carbon fibre, climate solution and a British crop. Neil Thomas of Atelier One asks what we can learn from nature’s 400-million-year head start in engineering.
Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has completed the University of Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, creating a new civic gateway that brings teaching, research and public life together beside Temple Meads station.
Ian Poole
What can a soap film teach us about concrete construction? Ian Poole of Elliott Wood discusses biomimicry, material reuse in a push to make structural engineering less extractive and more regenerative.
Free RD26 seminar: Specifying natural and sustainable construction materials
BakerBrown Studio, Collective Works, Groupwork, Webb Yates, UKGBC and Rowland Keable of Rammed Earth join the line-up at a seminar on whole life carbon and adaptive reuse delivered in partnership with HG Matthews on the morning of Tuesday 20th October as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent
Studio KO has transformed a 1912 tram depot and diesel station in Old Tashkent into Uzbekistan’s first permanent institution for contemporary art, retaining the character of the industrial complex while introducing new galleries, public spaces and facilities for research and cultural exchange.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
DSDHA
From Broadgate to the studio garden and experimental earth construction, Tom Greenall and Nicole Abernethy of DSDHA explore how testing ideas at different scales can turn landscape, biodiversity and material innovation into everyday practice.
Evermore
Nimtim architects has refurbished and extended a Suffolk bungalow, creating an accessible and adaptable home designed around the long-term needs of its owners.
How Should We Innovate? – speakers announced
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
Dispatches: Cooke Fawcett
Oliver Cooke and Francis Fawcett, founders of Cooke Fawcett, discuss leaving Herzog & de Meuron, building a practice from scratch, and their evolving approach to heritage, retrofit and cultural projects.
RDA Architects
Richard Dudzicki tells AT how cinema, Passivhaus principles and London’s constraints shape a practice focused on retaining what exists, using fewer resources and finding inventive ways to make lasting homes.
Designing workplaces for people and planet
Watch the AT Workplace webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics, exploring how retrofit, reuse, adaptability, acoustic comfort and long-term thinking are shaping workplaces that work better for people and the planet.
Free RD26 seminar: Whole life carbon and adaptive reuse
Max Fordham, HLM Architects, Grimshaw, Elliott Wood, PDP and Esther Robinson Wild join the line-up at a seminar on whole life carbon and adaptive reuse that takes place on the morning of Thursday 15th October as part of Regenerative Design 2026.
Elora Hardy to give opening talk at Regenerative Design 2026
TED Talk speaker, founder of radical design studio IBUKU and the designer behind some of the most extraordinary structures in the world, will kick off the events programme at Regenerative Design 2026 with a keynote talk on the morning of Monday 5th October.
Corinna Dean
Corinna Dean of ARCA considers how architecture can foster care for human and non-human life, drawing on collaborative projects from floating reed beds on the River Lea to bio-receptive bricks that expose the environmental costs of making.