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December 16, 2025
Open City CEO Manijeh Verghese marvels at Mumbai’s rapid transformation and asks how you can slow the pace of change to a rate that allows its people to shape its future. Marine Drive and the bay as seen from Nariman Point. Photograph by Manijeh Verghese. “On the Churchgate train, past Charni Road station as it […]
December 16, 2025
Skip to content 68 Erith Hub alma-nac’s transformation of a long-vacant high-street unit in Erith creates a flexible, low-carbon community hub, organised around a generous threshold space that links between street and interior. Photos Jim Stephenson London studio alma-nac has completed the refurbishment of a former commercial unit on Erith High Street in south-east London, […]
December 16, 2025
Skip to content Reflections: Chapel of Reconciliation John Pardey revisits de Blacam & Meagher’s Chapel of Reconciliation at Knock – a landmark of 20th century Irish Architecture – tracing its pilgrimage roots, profound materiality, and overarching influence on a new generation of Irish architects. Words John Pardey Photos Peter Cook This article is part of […]
December 16, 2025
Perched on a steep waterfront slope, this multi level home by Koichi Takada Architects brings together luxury, light and landscape. Designed to make the most of its dramatic setting, the house steps naturally toward the water, blending modern design with organic materials. From inside, views of the water dominate, while outside, terraces, cantilevered platforms, and […]
December 15, 2025
Skip to content Christmas Festival of Bad Habits Peer Collective and artist Kateřina Šedá reimagine the Christmas market as a public space for reflection, sobriety and shared experience in Brno, Czech Republic. Photos Matej Hakár In a quiet corner of Brno, a temporary installation is challenging the norms of seasonal consumerism. Architects Peer Collective and […]
December 13, 2025
In Amagansett, New York, a quiet stretch of land has been shaped into a home that reflects not just its setting, but the lifestyle of the family who lives there. Designed by Bates Masi + Architects, the house was created for owners whose days revolve around the ocean, the wind, and the subtle signals that […]
December 12, 2025
Photo by Renata Dominik Designed by CplusC Architects + Builders, Holocene House offers a daily immersion in nature. Plants canopy the walkways, water moves through the home like a rainforest creek, and every room opens to the outdoors. As Australia’s first certified carbon positive home under the global Active House Alliance, it balances the well-being […]
December 9, 2025
Gadi House in Talegaon Dhabade, India, is a powerful merging of tradition and innovation, built by PMA Madhushala for two brothers who wanted a home that honors their Maratha lineage. Inspired by the fortified Gadi houses of the region, it rises from its 1.2 acre site with thick stone walls, handcrafted brick bands, and a […]
December 9, 2025
Skip to content The Tractor Shed House Bindloss Dawes Architects has transformed a modest agricultural structure on the edge of Nether Compton, Dorset, into a zero-carbon home, drawing on the pragmatism of rural construction to deliver a warm, precise and light interior. Photos Dave Watts Bindloss Dawes Architects has completed the adaptive reuse of a […]
December 9, 2025
Louis Weir, Sustainability Manager at IKO, answers readers’ questions on how whole life carbon assessment is shaping the design and specification of flat roofing systems. The Dakota Hotel in Newcastle is the first project to use IKO Permatec LI hot melt waterproofing (photo: Daniel Crosbie/IKO). What is Whole Life Carbon Assessment, and why is it […]
December 8, 2025
Skip to content Third Space, Udaipur Photographer Timothy Soar shares his photographs – and his impressions – of Third Space in Udaipur by Studio SAAR, a vibrant cultural and educational hub born from the belief that communities deserve places of aspiration, not as a luxury, but as a birthright. There are buildings that stand in […]
December 7, 2025
On a peaceful stretch of rural Australia, a simple idea has reshaped the way one property connects with its sweeping countryside. With a modest timber addition, Solomon Troup Architects have taken an existing home and helped it finally turn to face the views that were always there but somehow overlooked. What could have been just […]
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