Italian practice gosplan has revitalised a historic stretch of Camogli Harbour in Liguria, creating a carefully crafted public realm that celebrates the enduring relationship between the fishing village, its working waterfront and everyday civic life.
Reflections: Säynätsalo Town Hall
John Pardey revisits Alvar Aalto’s Säynätsalo Town Hall in Finland, a building founded in history, landscape and civic life, and one of the architect’s most consummate works.
Quality in numbers: why working with a stable of practices produces better outcomes on large regeneration schemes
Michael Clark, Design Director at Hadley Property Group, explains how working with Haworth Tompkins, Metropolitan Workshop, Studio Egret West and dRMM on 980 Great West Road in Brentford is producing richer outcomes than any single practice could achieve alone.
White Breakers
Unknown Works has retrofitted a modest coastal bungalow in Pembrokeshire, transforming it into a low-energy family home that responds sensitively to its National Park setting.
Digitising roofing specification: tools, data and detail
David Coldham, Technical Director at IKO, discusses how the company’s Information & Resource Hub provides architects with the technical advice, tools and support needed to develop coordinated, compliant and buildable roofing specifications.
Using data to unlock value
PropertyData discusses how data-driven insights can give architects a competitive edge when it comes to securing residential retrofit and refurbishment projects.
Designing for care: specifying colour and paint in healthcare environments
Dulux Trade’s Dawn Scott and Andrew Cleaver, in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discusses how evidence-based colour strategies and high-performance paint systems can support wellbeing, inclusivity and long-term performance across healthcare projects.
Meet the client: Attzaz Rashid, Barratt London
Barratt London’s Head of Design, Attzaz Rashid, discusses the challenges of delivering high-quality, low-energy housing at scale, the realities of large-scale urban regeneration, and why collaboration is essential to creating better places.
The language of light
Hillarys explores how designers use natural and artificial light, alongside blinds and window treatments, to shape atmosphere, define space and create more adaptable residential interiors.
100 Fetter Lane
Fletcher Priest Architects’ new London headquarters is a low-impact workplace that prioritises reuse, adaptability and wellbeing, while also showcasing the practice’s circular design principles.
Moof Fitness Studio
A demountable gym concept by Madrid-based practice Canobardin uses a simple kit of parts to create a calm adaptable environment that can be replicated across multiple locations.
Pall Mall
Sheppard Robson has transformed Manchester’s Grade II-listed Pall Mall from an ageing post-war office block into a high-performance workplace, carefully reconstructing its Modernist façade while introducing new public spaces, flexible interiors and a fabric-first retrofit strategy.
AT Webinar: Circularity in architecture – designing for a zero-waste future
Join us on 22 July to for an AT webinar in partnership with TECHNAL UK & Ireland to explore how circular design principles are being put into practice across the built environment.
AT Webinar: Tall buildings – balancing performance, safety and wellbeing
Join us on 8 July to for an AT webinar in partnership with Knauf UK to explore how tall buildings can be designed and adapted to balance safety, comfort, operational performance, regulatory compliance and environmental responsibility.
Studio SAAR
Studio SAAR reflect on designing across cultures and climates – combining vernacular wisdom, circular material strategies and ecological thinking to create places that strengthen communities and landscapes alike.
Bridging the housing gap for the sustainable cities of the future
Holcim hosted a panel discussion to explore the challenges involved in delivering intelligent solutions to the housing shortage in the UK and worldwide at the Zaha Hadid Foundation on June 23rd as part of London Festival of Architecture.
Sawtooth House
Francesco Pierazzi Architects has transformed an ageing extension to a Victorian house in Kingston upon Thames into a light-filled, low-energy family home. Drawing on the area's industrial heritage, the project combines a distinctive sawtooth roof profile with deep retrofit measures to create a playful yet highly sustainable domestic environment.
Regenerative Design – how can designers help clients take the lead?
Anna Pamphilon from Within Planetary Boundaries asks how designers can work with clients to factor long-term social and environmental implications into investment decisions and business plans.
Steel Window Association Awards 2026
The Cotswold Casement Company, West Leigh, and Associated Steel Window Services are among the companies that have triumphed at this year’s SWA Awards.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
The Hummingbird Learning Lab: the shortlist
The Hummingbird Learning Lab has announced a shortlist of four teams from the Regenerative Architecture Index 2026 for its competition to design a demountable learning space that reflects its neuroscience-grounded approach to education and community engagement.
2026 Regenerative Architecture Index
The 2026 Regenerative Architecture Index brings together 119 organisations demonstrating a commitment to regenerative design, delivery and practice.
Delivering safer buildings – embedding fire, health and life safety into design practice
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Siderise, exploring how architects, practitioners and fire specialists are responding to the Building Safety Act by embedding fire, health and life safety into every stage of design, specification and project delivery.
Olympia
Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC have unveiled the first phase of Olympia’s £1.3 billion transformation, reimagining the historic west London exhibition venue as a mixed-use cultural neighbourhood and opening up a site that has remained largely inaccessible for more than a century.
Slide into play
Little Tikes Commercial explores how durable materials, inclusive design and varied play experiences can help architects deliver playgrounds that are engaging, accessible and adaptable over time.
RAI Dublin Round Table: From Infrastructure to Place – Building a Better Ireland
Those leading housing, planning, architecture, placemaking, and local government across Ireland, sit down to discuss the disconnect between major infrastructure projects, housing delivery, and holistic placemaking in Ireland.
Cúl an Tí
DUA’s reworking of a modest rear extension in Enniskerry transforms an overlooked corner of a period terrace into a richly layered domestic landscape, where architecture, furniture, water and planting combine to reconnect the house with its gardens.
Dispatches: Cotter & Naessens’ ‘Assembly’ Pavilion Tours Ireland
Following its presentation at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Ireland’s national pavilion embarks on a nationwide tour, bringing its exploration of architecture, participation and collective listening to audiences across the country.
Video: Stephen O’Malley, Civic
Stephen O’Malley, Chief Executive of CIVIC, tells AT what surprised him most about our round table discussion, ‘From Infrastructure to Place’.
