Sustainability

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.

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.

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.

The Tiny Farm Fort is a cob-built, community-driven home where volunteers and locals shape every stone and beam. Using bioregional materials and sustainable techniques, Raghav and Ansh Kumar create a space that teaches, inspires and celebrates connection.

ORCA is an Oregon and California based landscape design and outdoor product studio working to bring a deeper connection between nature and the people that inhabit a space.

The Living Bridge at Green School Bali is a hands-on learning space where students, teachers and local craftsmen built together.

From demolition rubble to olive pits and coffee grounds, designers are turning waste into beautiful, useful materials. Circular design celebrates local resources and sustainability, giving discarded items new life while telling the story of their past.

Thick stone walls, dense timber frames filled with straw, and packed-earth structures held in warmth through winter and repelled heat in the summer. These materials, raw, organic and local, were not chosen for their insulating properties alone but for their abundance and endurance.

Challenging current linear practices from extraction, to construction, to waste, Scottish startup Kenoteq is reimagining the brick by creating a climate conscious circular ecosystem.

Building sustainably at scale is still viewed as problematic, with concrete and steel seen as a default for larger developments by a risk averse construction industry but the 19th century builders of Brighton had totally nailed it with bungaroosh.

Nikolay Shahpazov is a man on a mission to change our preconceptions that sustainable materials are challenging to use at scale.