AT330 features Kenneth Frampton's take on Europe's seminal 20th Century housing, a reflection on Paul Rudolph in Boston, new learning content covering fire safety, healthy materials, earth building and EnerPHit on School of Specification, Simon Allford on BDP's Oak Cancer Centre, Knox Bhavan's materials library, urban life in Ho Chi Minh City and much more.
Ask the expert: Masonry support systems
Jeff Edwards, Engineering Manager for Leviat’s masonry division, answers readers’ questions on masonry support systems.
Oak Cancer Centre
BDP has completed the Oak Cancer Centre for the Royal Marsden in Sutton. Simon Allford applauds a bold response to the challenges of delivering high-quality large-scale buildings within the NHS.
Still standing: Boston Government Service Center, 1971
While many of Paul Rudolph’s high-maintenance public buildings have faced demolition, one of his most confounding architectural statements stands as an enduring testament to his confrontational style.
Forest School Camps
Mole Architects and Invisible Studio have built a big barn in the Cambridgeshire Fens to be used as the national base for Forest School Camps.
Dispatches: Alex Ely
AT talks to Alex Ely, founding director of Mæ, about the challenges and benefits of B Corp certification, and what the practice is doing to further expand its environmental knowledge base.
Enjoying architecture – and making sense of Lutyens
In this extract from his new book How to Enjoy Architecture: A Guide for Everyone Charles Holland reframes Homewood, built by Lutyens for his mother-in-law in 1903, as a barbed commentary on the aspirations of its owner.
Introducing AccuRoof
Trading Director Robert Edwards discusses why SIG Design & Technology is rebranding itself as AccuRoof, and what this means for its specifier-led customer base and the wider construction industry.
Your planet needs you: a new kind of national service for a carbon-conscious age
Architects Declare's manifesto to transform the built environment highlights the urgent need for climate literacy across the board. Isabel Allen asks if it's time to introduce compulsory training in the knowledge and skills required.
Fit out for the future: White Arkitekter’s new home
Laura Davies talks to Madeleine Jacob about repurposing old furniture and making a studio that's visually coherent and designed to last.
Cast Corbel House
The first project from Walthamstow- and Norwich-based studio, Grafted, sees the renovation and extension of a Victorian house in East Anglia.
Materials library: Knox Bhavan Architects
Sasha Bhavan and Ben Hair reflect on how issues relating to sustainability, reuse, and modern methods of construction, are reshaping the practice’s approach to materiality.
Love Walk II
London studio Knox Bhavan has retrofitted and extended an early Victorian villa on Love Walk in Camberwell, south London.
Free access to Unit 1 of SOS’s new fire safety learning module
Simón Santamaria has produced a learning module on fire safety for School of Specification. He explains why the early and continuous involvement of a fire safety engineer is crucial to achieving sustainability targets without compromising safety.
AT Webinar: Digital transformations – Tools for smart working
Join our webinar on 2 May to learn how practitioners are using the latest digital tools as a means of smart working and watch built environment professionals demonstrate the tactics and systems they use to better engage internal and external teams when working on projects of increasing complexity.
What some of the biggest industry names have been saying about the AT Awards
Take a look at what Farshid Moussavi, Paul Monaghan, Peter Bishop and others have had to say about the Architecture Today Awards for buildings that stand the test of time.
Meet the client: Ben Cross on the retrofit market
Development director at General Projects, Ben Cross talks to AT about retrofitting two major buildings in London and what the market for retrofit is like at the moment and moving forward.
Schüco Excellence Awards 2024 – Deadline extended
Entry is now open for the 2024 Schüco Excellence Awards, for buildings that feature Schüco facades, window and door systems.
Gateway West/Gateway Central
A pair of high-quality civic-minded office buildings by Gort Scott and Allies and Morrison mediates between a fragmented past and a more connected future at London’s White City.
Roofing inspiration and knowledge
in partnership with AccuRoof (formerly SIG Design and Technology)
A primer for regenerative design
UK Architects Declare has published a 43-page guide, the Regenerative Design Primer, to help architects and other designers lead the transition towards regenerative design.
Know your worth
Félicie Krikler, director at Assael Architecture, and RIBA Council member, outlines a strategy for boosting profitability, diversity and job satisfaction, and explains why underselling is selling out.
Expanding the parameters of acoustic ceiling design
Zentia has launched the Sonify Wall Absorbers Grid System, enhancing sound absorption, echo reduction, and design creativity.
Spotlight on products in use
in partnership with manufacturers
Perth Museum
In the Scottish city of Perth, Dutch studio Mecanoo has given its former city hall a new lease of life as a museum that hosts the Stone of Destiny.
Dover Court
Pollard Thomas Edwards has revitalised a tired 1960s housing estate in north London, adding sustainable dwellings and much improved public realm for residents.
Projekt CEO Nick Hartwright on Studio Smithfield
As Smithfield Market gears itself for radical transformation, social entrepreneur and chief executive of Projekt, Nick Hartwright, talks to AT about Studio Smithfield, a new creative hub found above the Meat Market in Smithfield’s Northwest Quadrant.
Combining real-world rainscreen performance with simpler specifications
Luke Davies, Rock Mineral Wool Product Manager for Knauf Insulation, explains how to streamline the specification process for rainscreen façades, while prioritising real-world performance.
Dispatches: Mojan Kavosh
AT chats to Mojan Kavosh about winning the British School at Rome's 2024 Scholarship in Architecture and plans to walk an eight-day itinerary devised in 1763 for visitors on the Grand Tour.
Leading the way on façade safety
Knauf Insulation has launched a range of high-performance ‘gateway-ready’ rainscreen cavity systems.
