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September 22, 2022
As both resident and curator at Walmer’s Yard, Laura Mark is acutely aware of the boundaries between dwelling and gallery, public and private, home and work. The term Keeper refers to someone who looks after and cares for a collection within a gallery or museum space. At Walmer Yard my collection is the four houses […]
September 21, 2022
We love bakeries. And we especially love bakeries with a true sense of design and style. We have written about bakeries for almost two decades and we continue to look for fresh ideas. In the Mi Pan Bakery project, we love the candid admission of the designers that they recognized they could not create a […]
September 20, 2022
Lars Knöner, Head of Sustainability Projects at Schüco International, in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discusses the importance of targeting zero carbon and what the manufacturer is doing to achieve this goal. The construction industry is thought to be responsible for around 50 per cent of all material consumption worldwide. It is […]
September 20, 2022
Photography by Benjamin Benschneider Kor Architects has designed a new lakeside home in Washington State that uses materials like wood, stone, concrete, and steel, as well as a series of water features. Photography by Aaron Leitz The design of the home includes various water features. The first water feature can be seen at the front […]
September 19, 2022
Architecture and interior design studio WE Architects, has transformed an apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel, that includes a glass-enclosed home office. Partially visible from the kitchen, the home office (or study room) was once part of a bathroom. Using the window from the previous bathroom, the new home office is filled with natural light. The […]
September 16, 2022
September 16, 2022 Designed and built by two brothers from Repère Boréal, along with the help of an architect, the UHU is a small cabin that sits on stilts allowing for a view of the Saint-Laurence River in Canada. The cabin, which sits 40 feet (12m) from the ground, is accessed via an enclosed spiral […]
September 15, 2022
Ben Brocklesby, Director at Origin, discusses the benefits of internal glass doors in relation to the Future Homes Standard. In association with The introduction of the highly anticipated Future Homes Standard, which aims to make all new homes carbon neutral by 2025, will signify considerable changes for the entire housebuilding industry. Once this comes into […]
September 14, 2022
Once the epicentre of Hollywood’s nascent artistic and architectural scene, Rudolph Schindler’s extraordinary home was a stepping stone to Los Angeles’ great leap into modernity. Garden courtyards with outdoor fireplaces penetrate inwards towards the central node of the pinwheel plan. A snapshot scene of 835 Kings Road in Hollywood, California, in the late 1920s, shortly […]
September 13, 2022
For Martine Hamilton Knight, contributing to a revision of Pevsner’s ‘Buildings of England’ prompted a re-evaluation of the notion of ‘timelessness’ in architectural photography. Clipston Colliery Headstocks and Powerhouse (1953) To an architect, and by proxy, an architectural photographer, ‘Pevsner’ represents a very particular style of documenting buildings: rigid, precise and devoid of physical or […]
September 8, 2022
Market forces and conservatism are driving queer spaces from urban centres. Tom Wilkinson welcomes a new compendium of LGBTQIA+ places around the world as a timely celebration of the spaces that survive. Comparsa Drag’s performative parties in Buenos Aires, an example of the temporary transformation of spaces through performances, parties and parades. Photograph by Julian […]
September 8, 2022
For Shahed Saleem migration, identity, heritage and narrative are the common threads that weave together practice, curation, teaching and research. Over many years of what has felt like being pulled in different directions, it now seems that the various strands of my work are starting to come together. I founded my architectural practice in Bethnal […]
September 5, 2022
Mae has designed a community building that provides well-being and recreational facilities for the later living residents of London’s Morden College in Blackheath. Mary Duggan appreciates a sophisticated, humane design that reflects and anticipates social change. Established in 1695 by philanthropist Sir John Morden to provide support and accommodation to retired widowed merchants, Morden College […]
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