Architecture
Civic architecture done right: Nine exciting new public spaces, from Brisbane to Geneva
Theatres, schools, arenas, a lighthouse and a city hall – here are some of the world’s newest buildings and landscapes that are reshaping how communities gather.
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Rotor is on a mission to rescue the building industry from its throwaway habit
Why demolish and discard when you can dismantle and reuse? We meet the team behind the Brussels firm salvaging materials from old buildings and giving them a second life.
The beige-toned winner of the Stirling Prize is proof that architecture needs a new pop of colour
The world of architecture was once brimming with radical ideas and cutting-edge design. Are the homogeneous projects that now win awards a sign of the times?
What makes a healthy workspace? At Novolife’s Bangkok HQ, blurring the line between office and outdoors goes a long way
When creating the new concrete HQ for the natural pharmaceutical company, Thai design firm Studio Krubka chose to look beyond the office walls and embrace the country’s tropical climate.
From tea house to research organisation: Nice Projects reimagines a Kyoto relic into a laboratory
How do you design for scientists who talk to pickles? The new Kyoto head quarters of Artificial Life Institute is the answer.
This new Bjarke Ingels Group-designed HQ in Denmark combines workplace and showroom
A look inside the doughnut-shaped, low-carbon structure for Danish horticultural logistics company, Dymak.
How Vienna’s Jugendstil revolution built a design legacy that endures
The Austrian capital’s vibrant creative identity is all thanks to an artistic movement that flourished more than a century ago.
For Lina Ghotmeh, museums aren’t mausoleums but stages for debate and repair
A series of new commissions has confirmed Lina Ghotmeh as one of the world’s great architects. Here, she tells us about culture, craft and the poetics of building for the future.
After an extensive renovation, the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris is back to spread the word about Switzerland’s creative prowess
Housed in a 17th-century mansion in the Marais, the newly reopened cultural centre is Switzerland’s most ambitious cultural export to date.
Reborn from a historic 1930s art deco bathhouse, the Rockaway Ocean Club is reclaiming the Big Apple’s beach cred
As the summers grow hotter and heatwaves persist, city administrators have turned to real-estate developer CBSK to create more spaces where New Yorkers can cool off and reconnect with the water.
‘Buildings affect our health’: Thomas Heatherwick on how dull architecture is just as harmful as fast food
The world-renowned English designer behind Azabudai Hills and Olympia is on a mission to make buildings that better serve our wellbeing.
