Architecture & Design Community
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 […]
May 9, 2025
APD Architecture’s new teaching centre and specialised workshop on Oxford Bookes Headington Hill Campus are welcome developments in the Universities pledge to reach Net Zero by 2040. Photos Mark Excell APD Architecture have delivered two welcome additions to Headington Hill conservation site; an Oxford Brookes campus that surrounds the Grade II listed Headington Hill Hall. […]
May 7, 2025
AT talks to… Owen Hopkins, director of the Farrell Centre and co-curator the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, about how the pavilion reimagines architecture as an earth-bound, reparative practice confronting the intertwined legacies of colonialism and climate crisis. Photos Chris Lane © British Council What position is the British Pavilion, GBR – […]
May 2, 2025
The historic Procuratie, Venice, is set to open its doors to the public for the first time amidst the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Housing the new arts institute San Marco Art Centre AT speaks to its co-founders Anna Bursaux, David Gramazio and David Hrankovic ahead of the launch. Photos Mike Merkenschlager San Marco Art Centre (SMAC) will […]
May 2, 2025
Verdant Fletcher Priest Architects has completed a major retrofit of 150 Aldersgate, London, retaining 81 per cent of the existing structure and providing 140,000 square foot of workspace for TikTok’s UK offices. Photos Dirk Lindner Forming the wester boundary of the Barbican Estate, 150 Aldersgate Street from the outset demanded careful consideration from the architects […]
April 30, 2025
Soho Theatre Walthamstow A sensitive refurbishment breathes new life into The Grade II* listed Granada Cinema Walthamstow, opening its doors as Soho Theatre’s latest incarnation. Photos David Levene The Granada Cinema in Walthamstow, north London has long served as a cultural and community landmark in north east London. Originally opened in 1929 as a grand […]
April 29, 2025
Carmody Groarke has completed a distinctive duplex apartment and rooftop pavilion within a Grade II listed merchant’s house in Covent Garden, London. Photos Johan Dehlin & James Retief As if a piece from Richard Serra has landed on a rooftop in Central London, a home in Covent Garden boasts an elegant, silver Mansard-like pavilion that […]
April 24, 2025
Tom Bennett, Director at Studio Bark, speaks to AT about their bespoke carbon analysis tools and U-Build’s new acoustic interior partition, ‘U-What’. Tom Bennett photographed at Studio Bark in East London. I feel most productive in calm, quiet moments. Sometimes on a Monday or a Friday I might be the only person in the studio for example. […]
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