In this issue: O’Donnell + Tuomey’s V&A East Museum, Stanton Williams’ SEVEN Southbank Place, DSDHA’s Sheep Field Barn at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Ian Volner on Hilyard Robinson’s Langston Terrace Dwellings, Carol Costello of Cullinan Studio in Reinventing Practice, Materials Library with Tuckey Design Studio, and Gavin Hale-Brown’s Yonago, Japan in My Kind of Town. And much more.
Carol Costello, Cullinan Studio
From pioneering employee ownership and collaborative procurement to championing low-energy design, retrofit and nature-led architecture, Carol Costello explains how Cullinan Studio is evolving its founding ideals to meet the challenges of a changing world.
a serpentine, by LANZA Atelier
Mexican practice LANZA Atelier’s 2026 Serpentine Pavilion uses a winding brick wall, passive cooling strategies and a commitment to reuse to create a playful and porous intervention in Hyde Park.
Still standing: Langston Terrace Dwellings, Washington, D.C., 1938
Conceived as an attempt to translate lessons from European modernist housing into a distinctly American – and more specifically African American – idiom, Washington, D.C.’s first public housing development survives as a vital refuge from the city’s spiralling housing costs.
A canvas for bathroom design
Villeroy & Boch discusses how its Skyla bathroom collection enables architects to balance individuality, functionality and visual coherence through a coordinated palette of forms, finishes and fittings.
Designing for living: Rethinking colour in social housing
Dulux Trade’s Dawn Scott and Andrew Roser in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discuss how colour strategies and high-performance coatings can support wellbeing, durability and long-term value across social housing projects.
My Kind of Town: Gavin Hale-Brown
Gavin Hale-Brown explains how living and working in the Japanese city of Yonago shaped his development as an architect.
RAI members tour Tipping Point East
Architecture Today, UK Architects Declare and Zetteler recently welcomed Regenerative Architecture Index members to Tipping Point East in Stratford, east London, for a tour exploring circular construction, material reuse and community-led infrastructure.
Museum Friedland Phase 2
Designed by dichter Architekturgesellschaft, Museum Friedland Phase 2 extends one of Germany’s most significant migration museums with a new visitor and documentation centre that links the historic railway station to the active transit camp beyond.
School of Specification – Introduction to the ARB professional conduct process
Ben Hall, Partner at JMW Solicitors, has produced a School of Specification module on the ARB professional conduct process. Here, he outlines how complaints are assessed and what architects can expect during an investigation.
Materials library: Tuckey Design Studio
Jonathan Tuckey, Catarina Kohut, Emma Carroll and Fraser Biggins discuss how the practice’s approach to materiality is shaped by reuse, site-derived materials, and close collaboration with craftspeople and makers.
AT Webinar: Delivering safer buildings – embedding fire, health and life safety into design practice
Join us on 17 June to explore 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.
Custodians versus corporations
The Architectural The New Towns Taskforce is entrusting the delivery of new settlements to development corporations. Architect-turned-developer Russ Edwards explains why housing associations’ culture of stewardship and resilience makes them a better fit for the role.
School of Specification – Compliance for architects
Chloe Wynne, Solicitor in the Business Crime and Regulation team at JMW Solicitors, has produced a School of Specification module exploring compliance for architects. Here, she outlines the key legal obligations underpinning practice and how to reduce risk.
Sheep Field Barn
DSDHA has reworked Sheep Field Barn at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens at the Hertfordshire hamlet of Perry Green, doubling its footprint and setting a new benchmark for low carbon gallery design.
SEVEN
Stanton Williams has completed the last piece of the puzzle in a decade-long project to turn London's Shell Tower site into a mixed-use neighbourhood that reconnects Waterloo Station with the River Thames.
Skylark
House Of EM’s debut project is a contemporary family home in Mid Wales that combines carefully choreographed living spaces with a restrained material palette rooted in its landscape setting.
RIBA presidential elections 2026: live hustings
Hear all four candidates for the RIBA Presidency debate the relationship between architecture and the climate emergency at a live hustings on Tuesday 2nd June.
Future homes – delivering new housing, retrofit and performance at scale
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with VELUX, exploring how the UK housing sector is responding to increasing demand, tightening regulations, and the urgent need to decarbonise.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Last chance to book free photography workshop at dMFK’s ‘living sample library’ in Fitzrovia
There are two spaces left for Timothy Soar's free-to-attend photography workshop on Wednesday June 3rd designed to help RAI members to hone their photography skills.
Maida Hill public toilets
Studio Weave has completed a public toilet pavilion in Maida Hill, London, constructed using reclaimed stone salvaged from a demolished office building and reassembled as a durable piece of civic infrastructure.
Olympia Central
A fully-integrated roofing solution from Radmat combines performance and sustainability on a landmark redevelopment project in west London.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
University of Limerick Student Centre
Cotter & Naessens' long awaited Student Centre at The University of Limerick opens as a place of conversation, community and exchange, operating somewhere between public forum and student living room.
From green to regenerative: building public value for future generations
Regenerative Futures: A panel discussion at UKREiiF from Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare focused on delivering enduring value through heritage, low-carbon interventions, and inclusive governance.
Jia Art
Foster + Partners has completed Jia Art in Shanghai, a gallery and cultural hub organised around a petal-like atrium that brings daylight into a sequence of flexible exhibition and event spaces.
From Shetland to Halifax: a personal case for refurbishment
Barr Gazetas associate Magnus Wills reflects on how growing up in Shetland and encountering pioneering refurbishment projects shaped his belief in reuse, regenerative design and the future of sustainable housing.
Tomorrow’s Clients at UKREiiF: Stuart Newton-Tyers, Wild Capital
Stuart Newton-Tyers from Wild Capital talks to AT about how Biodiversity Net Gain is reshaping the sequencing of development and where architects are still being caught out.
Dispatches from UKREiiF: Mairi Laverty, Collective Architecture
Mairi Laverty, Director at Glasgow-based Collective Architecture, reflects on an unexpectedly optimistic UKREiiF, the growing momentum behind housing investment in Scotland, and the importance of socially conscious collaboration in shaping the next generation of retrofit and new-build projects.
