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June 3, 2025
AT chats to Marina Tabassum, the Bangladeshi architect behind the 25th Serpentine Pavilion which has opened in West London. We learn about what informed her design for A Capsule in Time, and the challenges of building a temporary structure on the Hyde Park site. Read about the 2025 Serpentine Pavilion here. Could you elaborate on the […]
June 3, 2025
In the 1990s, Cedric Price’s radical approach to architectural practice – prioritising processes over buildings – was seen as visionary and eccentric. Today, as the Regenerative Architecture Index reveals, his ideas about systems, adaptability, and the intelligence of practice itself are central to an evolving, more sustainable profession. Back in 1996 my then editor, Paul […]
June 2, 2025
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May 30, 2025
Red Cow Terrace Bold in ambition, but compromised in delivery, Office S&M’s terrace of three family homes in a Hertfordshire village shows how commercial reality can dilute good ideas. Ellen Peirson applauds the bravery of a riposte to standard developer housing that has survived against the odds. Words Ellen Peirson Photos James Retief London has […]
May 30, 2025
Natural light pours across stone, wood, and ceramic in this modern Mediterranean home, where simplicity is anything but empty. On Spain’s Costa Blanca, interior designer Maria Jose Aunon Cabrera and architect Pasqual Giner explore how geometry, material, and atmosphere can shape emotion, and space. Stone, white, and warm wood cladding create a material rhythm that […]
May 29, 2025
Tucked into the sloping terrain of Ballybrew, a quiet townland in County Wicklow, Ireland, this contemporary home by DUA (Design Urbanism Architecture) doesn’t shout for attention, it listens. At first glance, it might pass for a simple farm structure. But look again. Beneath the familiar silhouette of a curved roof and green cladding lies a […]
May 28, 2025
AT chats to… Eric Parry about the uncertainty generated by political headwinds and looking forward to an exchange of views on critical urban issues in London and Milan. What brings you to BCO Conference/What do you hope to achieve? I was invited to speak on the subject ‘Beyond the Workplace’ which gives a nice opportunity […]
May 27, 2025
Nestled on a corner lot in Toronto’s leafy High Park neighborhood, Westminster Residence by Batay-Csorba Architects is a striking reinterpretation of the traditional Edwardian gable house. Blending old-world archetypes with sculptural form-making, the home’s steep terracotta roof is more than an homage, it’s a bold, spatial strategy. At first glance, the oversized triangular roofline feels […]
May 27, 2025
In an episode from find the Perfect Place, a YouTube channel focused on unique home tours, host Bronson visits a small but well-considered tiny house in Wanaka, a scenic town on New Zealand’s South Island. Set in a quiet residential neighborhood at the base of Mount Iron, the house is located within easy reach of […]
May 27, 2025
Chatillon Architectes’ reinvention of Beauvais’ 1970s tapestry gallery reimagines the cultural site as a layered, flexible destination that connects the Gallo-Roman past with a new civic future. Photos Antoine Mercusot Paris-based Chatillon Architectes has completed the transformation of the Quadrilatère in Beauvais. First built in 1976, the museum was designed by renowned French architect and […]
May 24, 2025
Helen Hare explains why the lessons to be learnt from Milan’s design and fashion industries make it the ideal location for this year’s British Council for Offices Annual Conference. As a long admirer of design, fashion and the built environment, it was perhaps inevitable that Milan loomed largely into view during my research to locate […]
May 24, 2025
Modify Homes has renovated a dated red brick house in Australia for a family that wanted more light, better flow and a layout that works for everyday life. The project keeps the original tiled roof but reworks almost everything below it, with curved forms, a new rear addition and a stronger link to the garden […]
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