Eleanor Young

Invisible Studio and Mole Architects have designed a simple but flexible ‘big roof’ that makes an affordable work and storage space for charity Forest School Camps

What architects need to know about the Labour government’s expected changes on housing and planning

Architect-trained Alex Thomas explains how he discovered making, why he set his heart on switching to it, and how he finally set up Timber Workshop

How do architects set about consulting the public, particularly young people? Can they go further and engage with them? Can architects work alongside them, so they are part of the doing rather than having something done to them?

Mat Barnes, who enjoys the richness that references and reminiscences bring to architectural design, explains his approach. Plus Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio on the way stories make sense of buildings

Angharad Palmer on seaweed, being a change maker and embedding a culture of regenerative design at Hawkins\Brown. The podcast also features regenerative-design thinkers Ben Bridgens of Newcastle University and Michael Pawlyn of Exploration Architects

Stories concerning the Building Safety Act and other repercussions of the Grenfell Tower fire were among the most read this year

From Somerset to Rajasthan, ‘global, hyperlocal’ is how distinctive practice Studio Saar operates – thanks to its industrial backing and the impetus of its founders

The parade of temporary interventions on our streets injects them with joy, colour and life – and has lessons for architects, argues Eleanor Young

What do psychology and neuroscience tell us about what architects should promote or avoid in facade design? Eleanor Young speaks to two experts