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June 17, 2025
Bindloss Dawes has restored a rural hamlet in south-west France – and remodelled a 300-year-old barn – to create a tranquil wellness destination. Photos Ellen Christine Hancock Bindloss Dawes has completed the transformation of a remote cluster of agricultural buildings into Amassa – a yoga and wellness retreat set in the rolling hills of south-west […]
February 4, 2025
AT chats to… John Darlington, director at the World Monuments Fund (WMF) about how under threat sites can get support, how architects can engage with such sites and why the moon has been nominated on the 2025 WMF Watch list. The AGO Cinema Studio in Namibe, Angola, which was never finished, is on the 2025 […]
December 10, 2024
Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, on why the M&S demolition decision exposes a broken planning system and how we need urgent reform to safeguard heritage assets and reduce embodied carbon emissions. Designed by Trehearne & Norman with WA Lewis, Orchard House was completed in 1930 and has been Marks & Spencer’s flagship Oxford […]
August 7, 2024
Lauma Balina, Principal Engineer, Partner at Max Fordham, answers readers’ questions on Heritage buildings and Part L compliance. The deep retrofit of Grade I listed New Court at Trinity College, Cambridge, by 5th Studio and Max Fordham included the use of internal wall insulation, and reduced window heat loss by 80 per cent (photo: Timothy […]
May 17, 2024
In a remarkable case of a building’s original tenants coming back, Sanderson Design Group has returned to the CFA Voysey designed wallpaper factory in west London, restored by dMFK. Photos Jack Hobhouse Mostly known for his houses, CFA Voysey didn’t do many commercial buildings. In fact, the champion of the Arts and Crafts architect did […]
November 17, 2023
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has transformed the former Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel into Tower Hamlets Town Hall. Chris Dyson admires a project that combines conservation, retrofit and new build to create a complex, vibrant building that plays a vital role in civic life. The decision to locate the new Tower Hamlets Town Hall on […]
September 13, 2022
For Martine Hamilton Knight, contributing to a revision of Pevsner’s ‘Buildings of England’ prompted a re-evaluation of the notion of ‘timelessness’ in architectural photography. Clipston Colliery Headstocks and Powerhouse (1953) To an architect, and by proxy, an architectural photographer, ‘Pevsner’ represents a very particular style of documenting buildings: rigid, precise and devoid of physical or […]
August 22, 2022
Henrietta Billings, director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, says the planning inquiry into controversial plans to raze and rebuild Marks & Spencer’s flagship Oxford Street store could change the future of construction. Designed by Trehearne & Norman with WA Lewis, Orchard House was completed in 1930 and has been Marks & Spencer’s flagship Oxford Street store […]
July 25, 2022
The new National Model Design Code is being trialled across the UK. Gail Mayhew, managing director of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole’s new placemaking company FuturePlaces, looks at the lessons that can be learnt from previous attempts to codify urban design. Nansledan, an extension to Newquay, Cornwall, on Duchy of Cornwall land implemented a design code that […]
June 8, 2022
An AT Schüco webinar exploring ways of evaluating, upgrading and repurposing our historic building stock is taking place on Wednesday 29th June. Lambeth Palace Library, London, by Wright & Wright Architects (ph: Hufton + Crow) Heritage matters. But how do we quantify its worth in cultural and environmental terms? How can we unlock its value […]
May 23, 2022
A new publication from the Twentieth Century Society by historian Geraint Franklin charts John Outram’s extraordinary career. Charles Holland enjoys the first major study of a highly idiosyncratic architect who remains impossible to categorise. Isle of Dogs Pumping Station by John Outram John Outram gave one of the strangest lectures I have ever attended. It […]
April 1, 2022
Historic buildings need to be adapted to become energy efficient. Robert Adam urges heritage bodies and architects to embrace an approach that evolves, rather than contrasts with, the architectural language of our listed building stock. Daniel Libeskind’s Royal Ontario Museum can be viewed as an extreme expression of the UNESCO Venice Charter principle, which states […]
13 November 2026
