Architecture
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2025 winners highlight bold visions and optimistic outlooks
This year’s top projects, which include bamboo flood shelters and desert domes, prove that architecture isn’t just about buildings but about survival, identity and belonging.
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New Line House: A carefully rethought modernist home in the Sydney suburbs
The smart renovation in a Sydney suburb breathes new life into the work of a pioneering home-builder.
The Lee Ungno residence: A traditional-style dwelling built to champion Korean art
A Korean ‘hanok’ in the French countryside is a keeper of an artistic legacy and a link between continents.
Spaces that inspire: Exploring seven architecturally unique places around the world
There is no such thing as neutral architecture. Every part of a building’s design has a profound effect on us. Here we travel across the globe to celebrate some of our favourite buildings.
The new net-zero fire station carrying the flame for considered civic architecture
Edmonton Canada’s new fire hall is proof that good urbanism can make even the most functional buildings feel fresh.
Limburg’s velodrome puts its users’ needs front and centre
The Belgian sports complex shows why, sometimes, getting your ideas on track takes a nudge rather than a revolution.
Plunge into history at Istanbul’s Zeyrek Cinili Hamam
Visit a 16th-century hammam that has been sensitively revived for the modern age.
Architect Yuichi Kodai brings glimmers of Japan to a Swiss lakeside home
The recently completed residential project on Lake Zürich is the perfect example of a home designed with its occupants in mind.
Meet the budding urban planners at a Venice institute tackling climate-change issues
An architecture school in the City of Bridges aims to arm the next generation of urbanists and designers with hands-on skills needed to combat climate change.
Design tours: The world’s best public housing?
The world is urbanising fast. But how do you accommodate people in cities in a way that offers dignity, affordability and a sense of community? Vienna may have a solution.
Design tours: Lithuania’s modernist city
As Lithuania’s second city, it’s not often Kaunas gets much international attention. This, however, could be about to change. Kaunas has been named one of Europe’s Capitals of Culture for 2022; a title it’s…
