Architecture
Where ideas have room to breathe: Ten creatives on the personal spaces that shape their work
We meet outstanding architects, artists and designers in spaces that have influenced them, from dance floors to museum halls, to find out how these places have informed their approach to their own practice.
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Pillar of the community: Inside Finca Roja, a Valencia housing complex with a timeless allure
Completed in the 1930s, the iconic housing block continues to evolve to meet the needs of its residents. We meet the people living inside the city’s red-brick landmark.
Jeanne Autran-Edorh is making the case for a West African architecture rooted in craft, not imports
The co-founder of Studio Neida on celebrating non-Western design roots, working with local artisans and why craft is at risk of disappearing.
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.
