Wadhal has completed Wade House, a compact infill home in west London that demonstrates how careful design and detailing can turn restrictive planning requirements into opportunities for architectural invention.
Redlynch Farm
Bindloss Dawes has restored and extended a Grade II-listed farmhouse near Bruton in Somerset, pairing a carefully conserved historic building with a striking charred-timber addition designed for family life and the display of contemporary art.
Studio Bark unveils ‘Planning Appeal Intelligence’ AI tool for beta testing
Studio Bark and tech consultant David Sinclair have developed ‘PAI’ (Planning Appeal Intelligence), an AI-powered planning research tool designed to help architects and planning professionals navigate the planning system more efficiently. Rather than searching planning precedents using keywords, it uses semantic search to identify relevant planning appeal decisions based on the specific constraints and characteristics of a project.
The next president of the RIBA needs to Make the Environment Great Again
Will Arnold explains why now, more than ever, the built environment needs a figurehead who can cut through the noise of short-term politics to convince both government and the public that environmental action is both positive and practical.
Closing the loop
TECHNAL explores how circular thinking is reshaping façade design, enabling architects to specify low-carbon aluminium systems that retain value, minimise waste and support long-term environmental performance.
Futurebuild’s Big Innovation Pitch delivers real results
Madaster has been named winner of Futurebuild’s 2026 Big Innovation Pitch, with a ‘Vinted-style’ digital platform that connects construction projects with reusable materials.
V&A East Museum
O’Donnell + Tuomey has completed V&A East Museum at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. John Tuomey and Sheila O’Donnell tell Nelly Greig about the chance encounters and musings that inspired the building, and their hopes about how it might evolve
RAI members hone their photography skills
RAI members explored new approaches to photography at a workshop held by Timothy Soar at dMFK's Fitzrovia studio.
RIBA Presidential Elections 2026: Live Hustings
The four candidates for the RIBA Presidency thrashed out the relationship between architecture and the climate emergency at a live hustings.
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.
Introducing the May-June 2026 issue of Architecture Today
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.
RAI members tour Tipping Point East
Architecture Today, UK Architects Declare and Zetteler recently welcomed Regenerative Architecture Index members to Tipping Point East in Newham, 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.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
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 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.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
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.
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.
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.
