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Adam Richards Architects reimagine school wellbeing design at Mayfield School, where St. Raphael’s Centre combines materials with historic sensitivity, setting a new benchmark for sustainable, student-focused architecture.

Armourcoat’s clay lime plasters give a wall presence. The material has body to it: softly chalky, gently uneven, with a depth that shifts as light moves across the surface. The resulting finishes are soft,…

Tipping Point East, the UK’s first Climate Futures Centre, unites RESOLVE Collective, Yes Make and Material Cultures and creates a space to store, process and redistribute reclaimed materials.

The Balearic Islands are driving an architecture revolution via IBAVI's low-impact housing. Alventosa Morell Arquitectes and Joan J. Fortuny's project is a model of this ethos. Using site-excavated stones and compacted-earth walls the building is an act of knowledge exchange for public building.

The Rammed Earth House in Wiltshire by Tuckey Design Studio reflects a slow, thoughtful approach to design. Commissioned by a couple, it’s shaped by how they live together, the sun’s arc, and the surrounding landscape.

Lebanese born and Paris based architect Lina Ghotmeh is rightly gaining a reputation for beautiful and considered architecture deeply rooted in the history, context and stories of place.

Hortus Collective is changing UK landscape design through nature, reuse of materials and close work with architects. In this interview, the studio talks about biodiversity, making places people feel good in and creating gardens that grow and change over time.

In a Birmingham house, Civic Square opens up the hidden layers of the housing crisis. Retrofit House uses natural materials and collective learning to link housing, health and climate, and to show how neighbourhoods might repair themselves.

In Portugal, a proverb says whoever cares about their grandchildren plants a cork oak. Harvested without felling, regrown on long cycles, cork offers a rare building material that renews itself - a slow, living alternative to extractive forestry and fast, fragile afforestation.

Groupwork’s Finchley Road project elevates stone construction with over 400 precision-engineered Larvikite beams and columns. A low-carbon alternative to steel and concrete, it combines structural innovation and sustainability building on lessons from Clerkenwell Close.

Community spotlight: Meet Sarah Amos, an Interior Designer and 3D Modelling Specialist based in Melbourne, Australia. Sarah has created over 700 custom textures using ARCHITEXTURES, building a rich, versatile library for her projects.

Interior design impacts the planet yet awareness is low. Chloe Bullock advocates for sustainable practices - using regenerative materials, avoiding toxic chemicals, and embracing circular design - while engaging clients, communities and nature to reduce harm and protect biodiversity.