A garden of succulents near Madrid uses architecture and good design to support its plants, quietly showing them off to their full potential.

Being a risk-taker yet remaining part of the mainstream is a tricky thing to pull off. Three proponents of the art, Elizabeth Diller, David Chipperfield and Ellen van Loon, explain how they balance architectural innovation…

Meet the architects and businesses who are creating housing that’s affordable, sustainable and a pleasure to live in.

For decades the Belice Valley was a byword for bureaucratic bungling in the face of disaster. Now, 50 years after a devastating earthquake struck the region, the bold aesthetic legacy that bloomed in its wake is finally…

Poul Kjaerholm was one of the greats of Danish design. Here we visit his former home – a testing ground for many of his best-loved classics.

The US firm moving beyond desert modernism, plus an artistic spot in the English countryside and a starkly dramatic Algarve capital.

The co-operative apartment block in Valencia that’s a brutalist triumph, casting a spiritual spell on its devoted residents.

We help Sydney improve the quality of after-life, meet the Vietnamese designers looking to the past for new solutions and venture into the dapper new showroom of an Italian design giant.

21 May 2018

This week we hear the story of one of London’s Victorian wonders: Alexandra Palace. It has long served as a centre for entertainment in north London, despite its tumultuous past.

New York’s lauded High Line is inspiring cities worldwide to get their own elevated-pathway projects off the ground. Enjoy the view.

The labyrinthine San Jerónimo home of Ernesto Gómez Gallardo Argüelles is a study in Mexican modernism – and a treasure trove of the polymath’s many designs.

From a Swiss school putting good architecture on its curriculum to a fix for a Warsaw eyesore.