Fishermen’s Rest
Fishermen’s Rest

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.

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.

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.

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.

Timber inspiration and knowledge in partnership with James Latham

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.

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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.

Reinventing practice

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.

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.

Colour Specification series in association with Dulux Trade

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.

Roofing inspiration and knowledge
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)

VMZINC Gallery 2025

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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.

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.

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’.

Wade House

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.

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