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November 29, 2025
Office of Displaced Designers (ODD) is calling on UK construction professionals to support She Repairs, an initiative to help women in Izmir’s displaced communities to provide their households with a safe and comfortable home. What’s the thinking behind the ‘She Repairs’ project? It’s an initiative to equip women in Izmir’s displaced communities with the skills, […]
September 30, 2025
Skip to content Dispatches from Folkestone AT chats to Duarte Lobo Antunes and Jack Taylor from A is for Architecture about their Folkestone ‘Harbourplan’ which has recently been granted planning permission. Photos A is for Architecture Can you start by giving us some background on A is For Architecture? We’ve all come from fairly international […]
August 28, 2025
AT chats to Dan Meis, a specialist in sports stadia and architect behind Everton FC’s new Hill Dickinson Stadium as he reveals why fans hug him in the street and why he has a club tattoo. Meis in his LA studio. (Credit: AECOM) When Everton engaged you — what did those initial conversations look like? […]
August 11, 2025
Skip to content Dispatches: Simon Reid, Lungfish Architects Lungfish Managing Director Simon Reid tells AT about the trouble with corridors and dragonflies, the secret of successful Forest Schools and the importance of swapping school shoes for wellington boots. What is Lungfish? We’re an interdisciplinary design team that started out as the design arm of the […]
May 23, 2025
AT chats to Seth Rutt from Studio Multi about dreaming up a new practice during Lockdown and the difference between a pirate ship and a Navy. What prompted you and your partner Nicola to leave HawkinsBrown and set up your own company? It was a kitchen table discussion during Covid. We started in 2021 so […]
May 21, 2025
AT chats to Mairi Laverty and Nicola McLachlan from Collective Architecture about the upsides and downsides of operating as a collective. What brings you to UKREIIF/what do you hope to achieve? We are looking to expand our conversations and networks outwith Scotland. We are also taking part in panels (Women in Architecture – How Women […]
May 18, 2025
AT talks to… Michael Pawlyn, Director of Exploration Architecture, about the vision behind their ‘Biorock Pavilion’ at this years Venice Biennale. Photos Kelly Hill What has the atmosphere been like leading up to the opening? The Biennale has been amazing, as always! Yes, there’s always an element of last-minuteness, but this time, things were reasonably […]
May 16, 2025
Michelle Sanchez, Sustainability Lead at RSHP, shares insights from this year’s FOOTPRINT+ conference, reflecting on circularity, climate resilience, and RSHP’s efforts to integrate reuse and regenerative practice into mainstream design. What are the issues that everyone’s talking about? The most important challenges that I heard people talking about at Footprint + this year revolved around […]
May 14, 2025
David Partridge, Chair of the Governance Board for the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, shares insights from Footprint+ on embedding the standard into everyday practice and the growing seriousness with which the industry is tackling carbon and circularity. What are the issues that everyone’s talking about? I’m the Chair of the Governance Board of […]
May 13, 2025
AT talks to… Elisabeth Endres, director of the Institute for Building Climatology and Energy of Architecture (IBEA) at the Technical University of Braunschweig and a co-curator of the German pavilion ‘STRESSTEST’ at this year’s Venice Biennale. Photos Josef Grillmeier, Patricia Parinejad What is your pavilion about and how does it respond to the title of Intelligens: […]
May 9, 2025
AT talks to… Kaisa Karvine and Teo Ala-Ruona; the curator and exhibitor behind “Industry Muscle: Five Scores for Architecture”, the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. Photos Ugo Carmeni What is your pavilion about and how does it respond to the title of Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective? Kaisa Karvinen, curator: Carlo Ratti commented in […]
April 15, 2025
Watch: Footprint founders Tim Pyne and Emily Day talk to AT Editor Isabel Allen about striking a balance between producing an influential conference and throwing the best party in town. Now in its fourth year, FOOTPRINT+ 2025 takes place on 14-15 May at Old Billingsgate in the heart of London. The UK’s leading conference for […]
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