Architecture Today

The January-February issue of Architecture Today is here! Use the link below to read the digital edition in which you can catch: - Specially commissioned, up-to-date photography of the winners in the Architecture Today Awards! Timothy Soar travels up and down the country to capture the winning projects in the test of time awards as they are today.   - Glenn Howells, Sasha Bhavan and Ian Ritchie CBE RA Hon FRAM Hon FREng are just some of the architects who discuss their award-winning projects with collaborators and clients, and discuss the way the buildings have stood the test of time.   - Tom Bloxham looks back on 30 years of Urban Splash – Tom Bloxham explains how Urban Splash defied the naysayers to create a successful business out of breathing new life into buildings that had been written off as having passed their sell-by date - My kind of town – Fernando Sordo Madaleno explains how Mexico City’s melodramatic, multi-layered city has been shaped by a history of cataclysmic events. Read AT 335 here: https://lnkd.in/eXqvy9tn

As well as exhibiting the #RegenerativeArchitectureIndex at #Futurebuild next week with Architecture Today, AD Steering Group members and signatories will also be taking part in a panel discussion as part of Futurebuild’s ‘Knowledge Programme’. Isabel Allen, Editor of Architecture Today, will chair a discussion to explore how architecture can actively restore and regenerate ecosystems and communities using the core principles of the RAI: 🧓 Being a Good Ancestor – Julia Barfield from MarksBarfield Architects will explore how long-term thinking and adaptability can create enduring architectural legacies. 🌱 Co-evolving with Nature – Thomas Bennett from Studio Bark will discuss how design can work within, rather than against, natural systems to regenerate ecosystems. 🌍 Creating a Just Space for People – Sophie Crocker, ARB, EDAC, WELL AP from White Arkitekter will share how architecture can foster equity, resilience, and community empowerment. 💡 Anna Pamphilon from within planetary boundaries and UK Architects Declare will further expand the conversation, offering insights on regenerative architecture’s role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. 🤝 Join us at 5pm on at the Arena Stage on 4th March. Book your free Futurebuild exhibition tickets and register for the talk here: https://lnkd.in/e5WwW4xy #RAI #UKArchitectsDeclare #RegenerativeFuture #ClimateAction

In the London Borough of Sutton, South London, a new place for #coworking and #wellness from Oru Space paves the way for Sutton High Street’s #regeneration and serves as an example of #circulardesign principles in practice. Use the link below to hear from Oru co-founder Paul Hepworth Nelmes, architects Sam Chisholm and Takero Shimazaki – plus Xavier De Kestelier and Jonathan Irawan from Hassell who are working on Oru Sutton's next stage. https://lnkd.in/e5E55mdA

Designed by local practice Buttress for This City (the Manchester Council-owned housing development company), No. 1 Ancoats Green comprises 128 new-build, low-carbon homes on a brownfield site in Ancoats, north #Manchester. Use the link below to hear from learn about how the #specification and delivery of the project’s flat roofing helped it meet #Passivhaus standards from AccuRoof Technical Director Daniel Bosworth:   https://lnkd.in/euvyC9Ff #roofing #flatroofs

Missed our recent #heritage and #conservation webinar? You can catch it here (see link below!) Watch presentations from Julia Feix (Feix&Merlin Architects) with Jonathan Flint (Heyne Tillett Steel), Colin Bignell (Selectaglaze Retrofit Secondary Glazing); Daisy Narayanan MBE (The Crown Estate), Richard Williams (VELUX) and James Manning (Grosvenor and Building Better Partnership) on exploring strategies for balancing architectural heritage with modern performance demands. https://lnkd.in/ghU_A6RC

⏰ It’s just over a week until the opening of Futurebuild on 4th March at the Excel, where AD will be hanging out with Architecture Today to chat to all you lovely visitors about regenerative design and entering for this year’s Regenerative Architecture Index. 💚 You can catch us at our dedicated #RAI exhibition stand (E75) between 4-6th March, where AD steering group members and AT representatives will be on hand to answer any questions and to chat about all things climate-positive! 📧 Register for your FREE ticket here: https://lnkd.in/e5WwW4xy #Futurebuild #RAI #Chat #RegenerativeArchitectureIndex #RegenerativeFuture #FreeTicket #ArchitectureToday Pictured below: 2024 Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) #Futurebuild stand featuring our #BuildingBlocks manifesto

How can we rethink urban housing by integrating key family-friendly elements within residential developments? We talked to Emily Newton, Associate Director at Assael Architecture, about the practice’s Urban Family Housing concept, and how being an architect and working mother influences her design and leadership approach. Read on in the link below ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eCtCPZK9

What is the Urban Green Factor (UGF)? How is it calculated and why is it important? On hand to answer these questions and more is Rob Beswick, founder and director of BD landscape architects, who has produced a School of Specification module exploring the #UrbanGreeningFactor. Use the link below to read in Architecture Today what he considers the main #UGF principles and factor values. ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/es-KKDVc

Dispatches from Barcelona: We talk to Lilian Ho, Senior BIM Manager & Digital Lead at AECOM, architect and expert in #generativedesign, about the world’s first online master’s in Artificial Intelligence in construction and architecture for ZIGURAT Institute of Technology. Read the full Q&A in the link below! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eAyrBY7q

The Avicii Arena in Stockholm has been renovated and brought up to speed by HOK, C.F. Møller Architects, and schlaich bergermann partner sbp, adding more capacity and a new acoustic system to what is the world’s largest spherical building. Learn more about the project and hear from Kirsty Mitchell, senior project manager at HOK, Mårten Leringe, partner at C.F. Møller Architects and Knut Stockhusen, board member at sbp in the link below! https://lnkd.in/eRd_KDVB