Ten minutes with Alex Ely, founder and director of Mae, one of London’s leading public housing architects, on why the Thames is crucial to the city’s transport challenges and why he designs homes with ‘exo-skeletons’

This week, my five year old daughter asked: “Daddy, do people take photos and put them online?” When I said, yes, she asked, “Why?” and, well, I didn’t know what to say.

A trip to the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht uncovers two approaches to architectural design: one to serve our needs, another to put us in our place writes Rory Olcayto. Photography by Anthony Coleman. 

On the same day images of Norman Foster’s Tulip – a viewing tower for the Square Mile – made London the centre of the great global skyscraper debate the fate of five trespassing urban explorers tells a more vital story of the city’s tall building fixation writes Rory Olcayto

Pictured: Norman Foster's award winning Bloomberg HQ is Britain's greenest building (Nigel Young/Foster + Partners)

A battle over data privacy in Toronto could shape the future of cities for decades, even centuries, to come writes Rory Olcayto

A review of our annual debate featuring an expert panel discussing the ‘peak garbage’ threat

Women have played a key role in shaping London’s skyline and streets for years and today’s generation of female architects are at the forefront of city-thinking

A Green Sky Thinking panel discussion at White Arkitekter (London), 16 May 2018

Over the last two years, NHS England has been developing their Healthy New Towns programme.  Green Sky Thinking sponsor, IBI Group  are consultants involved with this ground-breaking project, and it has proved...