Mike Russum of Birds Portchmouth Russum and his wife Sally Cox share the joys of a home that is inspired by fighter planes, boat-building and the Arizona desert, and which won the Individual House Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025.
Can using ultra-modern building techniques improve viability of PBSA schemes?
“The Future of Student Living”, a panel discussion hosted by Walsh on 19 March, looked at two recent PBSA projects whose viability has been positively impacted by engineering design.
Planning regime and ‘armchair generals’ to blame for plummeting housing delivery
The recent Planning Update conference offered a stinging critique of the 'armchair generals' shaping planning policy and Sadiq Khan's misguided assumption that house-builders will deliver London's social housing programme.
UKREiiF 2026
As UKREiiF returns to Leeds from 19-21 May, the UK’s flagship property and infrastructure event expands its programme, footprint and ambitions, bringing together industry leaders to explore the future of regeneration, investment and development.
Secure Sanand, India by Studio Saar
Jonny Buckland of Studio Saar and Ananya Singhal of Secure Metres and Studio Saar explain how the Secure Sanand campus – winner of the International Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025 – has shaped its company culture and allowed employees and ecology to thrive.
Hindsight: Photographing David Lea
Timothy Soar reflects on the experience of photographing Welsh architect David Lea at Ogoronry in Gwynedd, Wales, shortly before his death in 2022.
AT Webinar: How should you be using AI?
Join us on Wednesday 22nd April at 10.00 for an AT Webinar exploring how AI and digital tools are reshaping architectural practice – from working with heritage, to design workflows, collaboration, carbon analysis and decision-making – and what this means for the future of the built environment.
Striking the balance with heritage assets
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Selectaglaze and Velux, exploring how architects, clients, and conservation specialists are improving the performance of historic buildings while safeguarding their heritage value.
Jevany Villa
Located on a steeply sloping site in Jevany, Czech Republic, Architektura has completed a visually-striking house that employs sectional design and a robust material palette to frame views and connect domestic life with the surrounding forest.
Standing the test of time: Stratford Town Centre Link
Martin Knight from Knight Architects explains how Stratford Town Centre Link – winner of the Infrastructure & Public Realm Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025 – was designed as a connection and catalyst for an emerging neighbourhood but has since evolved into an enduring and enjoyable civic space.
Meet the client: Chloe Oades, Mount Anvil
Head of design Chloe Oades outlines Mount Anvil’s resident-first approach to the regeneration of Friary Park in Acton, where a tenure-blind housing strategy, extensive community engagement and a partnership with Peabody are delivering over 1,300 homes alongside new green spaces, amenities and long-term biodiversity gains.
Reimagining Oxford Street
Darryl Chen, Partner, Urban Design Sector Lead at Hawkins\Brown and Julian Lewis, Director at East on pedestrianisation, public life and the long-term transformation of Oxford Street.
Vault Youth Zone
John Puttick Associates’ multi-storey youth centre for OnSide draws on Preston’s brutalist heritage to deliver a new civic landmark that treats its young members with ambition and respect.
Box Library
U-Build has launched the Box Library, a pioneering initiative based at BLOQS in northeast London, that enables modular timber components to be borrowed, reused and returned for temporary construction.
Folgate Building
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has reworked and extended a 1980s office building in London’s Spitalfields, retaining 88 per cent of its structure to deliver a low-carbon, contextually-responsive workplace.
Designing play spaces for all seasons
USA SHADE discusses how shade structures and climate-responsive design can support safer, more resilient playgrounds throughout the year.
School of Specification – Specifying Colour
Dawn Scott, Senior Colour Designer & Inclusive Design Lead at Dulux, has produced a School of Specification module on specifying colour. Here she discusses colour theory and perception, as well as the benefits of using the Dulux colour notation system.
Standing the test of time: Regent High School
Cindy Walters from Walters & Cohen Architects and Wan Fan, Vice Chair of the Governors at Regent High School, discuss the reworked Camden school, which won the Education Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025, and was a ‘labour of love’ that transformed the community it serves.
In conversation with Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban on his new concert hall in Switzerland which takes the form of a piggy bank, paper tube architecture, and why architects should stop talking about sustainability and start reducing waste.
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
West London House
Goldstein Heather has skilfully reworked a narrow, end-of-terrace Victorian house in Stamford Brook, creating a light-filled, interconnected family home, designed to support multigenerational living.
Standing the test of time: Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre
Cindy Walters from Walters & Cohen Architects and Maitreyabandhu from the London Buddhist Centre discuss the challenge of communicating the Buddhist vision to the modern world through the Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre – winner of the Religion & Culture Award at the Test of Time Awards 2025.
Reflections: The Bauhaus
John Pardey on Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus in Dessau – a crystalline composition of glass, concrete and functionally ordered forms that transformed a new school of design into the built manifesto of a revolution in modern architecture, industry and education.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
Dispatches from MIPIM: Jude Barber and Gerry Hogan from Collective Architecture
Collective Architecture's Jude Barber and Gerry Hogan on championing Scotland as a great place to invest and living by the mantra that a rising tide lifts all boats.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Duncan Cox from Cundall
Duncan Cox from Cundall discusses the role of the consultant in initiating important conversations and not walking away from clients because they don't act on good advice.
Smiljan Radić Clarke wins the 2026 Pritzker Prize
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has been awarded the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize for work that explores fragility, cultural memory and material experimentation, creating buildings that are at once elemental, enigmatic and deeply human.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Marion Baeli and Chris Jones of 10 Design
Marion Baeli and Chris Jones of 10 Design on what the UK government could learn from Oman – and from Sheffield – and the challenge of embedding a rigorous approach to sustainability across a global practice.
Dispatches from MIPIM: Piia Elo, Mayor of Turku
Piia Elo, Mayor of Turku, Finland discusses the city's plans to become neutral by 2029 and its competition for feasible ideas to strengthen the appeal of the Aura River waterfront.
Strážné Cottage
Mimosa Architects’ mountain cottage in the Krkonoše village of Strážné reinterprets the spatial principles and material character of traditional alpine dwellings, creating a contemporary family retreat rooted in the landscape and craft traditions of the region.
