An exhibition of photographic portraits and interviews focusing on members of the Regenerative Architecture Index offers an insight into practices and organisations working to accelerate the transition to regenerative design.
Tournesol swimming pool
Studio Arcos B has reworked one of France’s distinctive 1970s Tournesol swimming pools, preserving Bernard Schoeller’s prefabricated domed structure as the centrepiece of a more sustainable and accessible leisure complex.
The death of the architectural ego
Laura Baron, Head of Sustainability at Purcell, calls for architects to set aside ego and embrace their role as custodians, working collaboratively to preserve, adapt and enrich the places and communities entrusted to their care.
All change at Bank
Studio Weave’s transformation of one of the City of London’s oldest and busiest interchanges creates a more generous pedestrian environment while enhancing the setting of the Bank of England, Mansion House and Royal Exchange.
Tollymore
Set on a steep triangular site above the Shimna river in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, McGonigle McGrath's Tollymore house steps six separate volumes down towards the water, trading the conventional continuity of a family home for a domestic landscape that rests in the spaces between nature and dwelling.
AT Webinar: Passive fire protection
Join us on 23 September for an AT webinar, in partnership with Promat, looking how we can retrofit safety and implement passive fire protection strategies for change of use and renovations.
Neil Thomas announced as keynote speaker at Regenerative Design 2026
The founder of the world's most innovative structural engineering firm Neil Thomas of Atelier One will share his research and thinking about the lessons trees can teach us about structural design at an evening talk on Wednesday 21st October.
Michael Pawlyn announced as keynote speaker at Regenerative Design 2026
The founder of Exploration Architecture, co-founder of UK Architects Declare and globally recognised thought leader on regenerative design will set out his thinking on pathways for a regenerative future at an evening event on Wednesday 14th October.
Timothy Soar explains the ambition – and the significance – of Regenerative Design 2026
Photographer Timothy Soar is giving a talk on the relationship between the way we document architecture and the transition to regenerative design on the morning of Tuesday October 6th at Regenerative Design 2026. Here he explains why he's getting involved.
Exploration Architecture appoints nature and future generations to its board
A new governance initiative by Exploration Architecture gives nature and future generations a formal voice in the practice's decision-making, extending a movement that is reshaping how organisations define corporate responsibility.
Drumhalla
At Drumhalla House in County Donegal, Pasparakis Friel has reconfigured a traditional venue, reconnecting three formerly separate houses and introducing a sequence of new thresholds, views and rooms that recast the country house as a contemporary setting.
RD26: Why Regenerative Design? Why this conversation matters now
The future of the built environment demands more than sustainability. For years, those in the built environment have focused on reducing harm by lowering carbon, improving energy performance and cutting waste. Those ambitions remain vital, but today's environmental and social challenges demand something more.
Materials library: BakerBrown
Duncan Baker-Brown, Tom Cuthbert, and Hannah Foreman discuss the practice’s circular approach to materiality, from urban mining and harvest mapping to designing buildings as future material stores.
The life of the City
Peter Smith, Architect at Collective Architecture, considers how architects and planners can create cities that give children greater freedom to explore, play and make use of the spaces around them.
School of Specification – Zinc as a building envelope
Jonathan Lowy, Operational Marketing Manager at VM Building Solutions, has produced a School of Specification module exploring the use of zinc in roofing and façade applications. Here, he discusses the material’s performance and aesthetic qualities, as well as key specification considerations.
Enzo Favro
For Enzo Favro, regenerative design is about looking beyond a building's immediate impact to the legacy it leaves behind. The Director of In Opera Group explains why natural stone, terrazzo and a long-term approach to material value are central to creating places that last.
The Drift
Marcus Lee and Corinna Dean have converted a Hopper-esque cluster of farm buildings in the Suffolk countryside into a maker space and home. Yuki Sumner applauds an 'architecture of empathy' that finds poetry in the awkwardness and rawness in agricultural infrastructure and opts for minimum intervention for maximum effect.
Reflections: Bait ur Rouf Mosque
John Pardey explores Marina Tabassum's Bait Ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, a modest brick building where primary geometry, natural ventilation and shifting patterns of light create a profound place of worship and community.
AT Workplace Webinar: Designing for people and planet
Join us on 10 September for an AT webinar, in partnership with Oscar Acoustics, exploring how architects and designers are creating workplaces that support people, organisational needs and environmental responsibility.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
Ask the expert: Passive fire protection and the BSA
Darren Brennan, Specification Director at Siderise, answers readers’ questions on passive fire protection under the Building Safety Act.
Still standing: Sagrada Família, Barcelona, 1882-2026
Under the ninth generation of architectural leadership Antoni Gaudí’s Gothic masterpiece was finally inaugurated by Pope Leo XIV in June. So why does the world’s best-known construction project still seem curiously incomplete?
Designing for ageing well: specifying colour and paint in elderly care environments
Dulux Trade's Dawn Scott and Andrew Cleaver, in conversation with Architecture Today's Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discuss how informed colour specification and durable coating solutions can support independence, dignity and long-term performance across elderly care projects.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
School of Specification – Forensic fire safety
Sam Morley, Senior Associate at Hawkins, has produced a School of Specification module exploring forensic fire safety. Here, he discusses how fire investigations reveal building defects and the lessons architects can learn from them.
Feltham Green Cabin
A trio of conical timber roofs crowns Burgess Architects' compact community cabin in Feltham, creating a distinctive civic landmark from a modest footprint.
Benedictine Monastery Education & Retreat Centre, Kylemore Abbey
Axo Architects has designed a Benedictine monastery on the edge of Pollacappul Lough in Connemara, County Galway – the first female monastery to be built in Ireland for over 400 years. Cormac Murray enjoys the understated confidence of a contemplative building informed by a nuanced response to context and a long-standing relationship between architect and client.
Regenerative Design 2026: Moving from ambition to action
Regenerative Design 2026 brings the built environment together to turn ambition into action at The Building Centre in London from 1–30 October.
RAI members photograph St Leonards-on-Sea
A free photography workshop at Marine Court combined practical guidance from Timothy Soar with an architectural tour of St Leonards-on-Sea led by Ian Macready.
Introducing the July-August 2026 issue of Architecture Today
In this issue: the Test of Time Awards finalists, Lahdelma & Mahlamäki’s Lost Shtetl Museum, Ian Volner on Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família, Marcus Lee of LEEP Architects in Reinventing Practice, The Drift in Suffolk, Axo Architects’ Benedictine Monastery at Kylemore Abbey, Materials Library with BakerBrown, and Farid Esmaeil’s Dubai in My Kind of Town – and much more.