The Pangolin Shield is one of the highlights of this year's London Design Festival: an installation that speaks poetically of colonial legacies and ecological exploitation, but also offers a positive message about the transformative power of creativity - not to mention some practical lessons about the structural possibilities of bamboo

Skinners' Hall has reopened after an eight-year refurbishment by 6a architects and Carter Owers Studio, which has turned one of the City's oldest livery halls into a beautiful contemporary events venue that is entirely respectful of the building's long and complex history

Adaptavate, a developer of low-carbon and carbon-negative construction materials, has seen its bio-based plasterboard alternative, Breathaboard, installed at Legal & General's new London headquarters 10 Coleman Street

Each year Tunstead quarry and cement works in Derbyshire quarries six million tonnes of limestone and can make up to a million tonnes of cement. When I went to look round the plant I found a team dedicated to decarbonising - but facing economic headwinds, Nimbyism, competition from cheap imports, ...

At One Triton Square in Euston, Arup has repurposed one of its own buildings, transforming an HQ designed for First National Bank of Chicago in 1998 into a science and innovation hub. Now Piercy & Company's treatment of the commual spaces centres flexibility and sustainability

For the University of Tasmania's new city-centre campus, Woods Bagot's biggest design decision was to avoid building at all where possible. The result is a five-building, century-spanning adaptive-reuse scheme that is the physical expression of the university's claim to be the world's most climate-conscious university

Wellness retreat meets period home in Mosley Thorold's renovation of a traditional Victorian home in De Beauvoir town

A new green paper from the Velux group says new build should be a last resort and that Europe could meet its housing needs by making better use of existing stock

Developed with material-research studio Matter at Hand, the tiles are the first product to use a "devitrified" ceramic. This is an innovative glass-ceramic material formed when waste glass is mixed with natural clays and minerals, extruded, then fired to 825°C rather than the 1200°C or more typically ...

The Tengyun Centre, or Tencent Cloudrise, is Chinese tech firm Tencent's new headquarters on Shenzhen's Da Chan Bay. Designed by MAD Architects, the biomorphic building is lifted to allow public access to the coastal site

We met the man with the best job in concrete to find out about the latest advances in the most promising decarbonisation technologies, from 3D-printed buildings to carbon-negative concrete

Wade House, by emerging London practice Wadhal, has embraced the planning constraints of west London commuter land to create a house that is completely of its place and completely contemporary; utterly familiar and strangely new. Welcome to the suburban uncanny

As upmarket buy-to-rent (BTR) tower Shard Place launches, we met Albert Giralt, partner/director at Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), to learn about the challenges of designing the luxury resi tower that completes the Shard grouping - and signals a new ambition for the capital's BTR sector

Missed Clerkenwell Design Week? Don't worry, London's design district is worth a visit all year round. Here's everything you need to know...

Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt's art and design engineering centre at Charterhouse brings together the school's art, design, engineering and technology departments to create a collaborative learning environment that promotes cross-disciplinary creativity

On all-women Smith College's campus in Northampton, Massachusetts, TenBerke has designed a new home for institutions that reflect the college's commitment to women's leadership

To mark the launch of a new audio-inclusive certification scheme for buildings, we talked to one of its backers, Ben Hancock, managing director of Oscar Acoustics, to learn more about how designers can make spaces more accessible to those who are noise sensitive

When I met French architect Thomas Coldefy I planned for us to discuss what the UK can learn from France about building with wood - and we did - but we also got distracted discussing some of his practice's rather wonderful imaginative and biophilic buildings

Geberit brings water-saving, more hygienic TurboFlush design to its mid-range toilet range for the first time

This year's Serpentine Pavillion by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo of LANZO Atelier is a low-key triumph that melds together Mexican and British references effortlessly and intelligently