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Play with your food

Architect and caricaturist Gustav Peichl finds many similarities between what he does and what he eats – but the main one is pleasure.

  • Issue #119
  • 4 min read
An elderly man in round glasses and a red puffer vest sits at an outdoor café table with an orange cap beside him.
Design

Baltic beauty

Finland’s capital boasts magnificent architecture, quirky drinking venues and dashing design.

  • Issue #118
  • 4 min read
Baltic beauty
Culture

Clean canvas

A Victorian bath house in south London has been reborn as an inviting – and very timely – new gallery space serving Goldsmiths’ art college and the community beyond.

  • Issue #118
  • 8 min read
Clean canvas
Design

My house is your house

On an area of parkland in central Warsaw stands a small settlement of wooden Finnish homes. A legacy of postwar hardship, these days they stand as a striking symbol of peace and friendship.

  • Issue #118
  • 3 min read
My house is your house
Design

Singular visions

Five decades after rejecting architecture's conventions, Elizabeth Diller remains stubbornly curious — the counterculture nonconformist who accidentally built New York's most beloved public space.

  • Issue #118
  • 16 min read
Singular visions
Design

Prickly clients

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

  • Issue #118
  • 6 min read
Prickly clients
Design

Day and night

To celebrate the launch of A. Lange & Söhne's limited-edition timepiece Datograph Up/Down Lumen, we speak to architect Joe Morris and photographer Polly Tootal about their creative processes – and how light informs their…

  • Film
  • 4 min watch
Architecture creative processes
Architecture

Back to the future

There's more to the City of Angels than dive joints and cocktail clubs. The 1933 Group is safeguarding the future of Los Angeles' bar scene by preserving its past.

  • Issue #117
  • 5 min read
Elegant chandelier hanging over seating area at Highland Park Bowl
Architecture

Brave new world

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 is finally getting attention.

  • Issue #117
  • 7 min read
Symmetrical sand-colored stone colonnade with arched openings flanking a geometric paved courtyard under pale sky
Design

Smarter homes

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

  • Issue #117
  • 15 min read
Smarter homes

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