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Architecture

Hope floats

On the waters of the North Sea is Floating Office Rotterdam, an carbon-neutral structure that embodies the need to build better.

  • Issue #160
  • 5 min read
Modern open-plan office interior with exposed timber beams, floor-to-ceiling windows, and city skyline views
Residences

Remote chance

Amid the harsh landscape near Australia’s Bass Strait, a farmhouse offers intimacy and true escape.

  • Issue #158
  • 5 min read
Open-plan kitchen with timber cabinetry, white island, green shelving and vaulted wood ceiling
Design

Community centre

Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré sees his projects as hubs for nearby residents, even enlisting their help to build them.

  • Issue #158
  • 7 min read
Diébédo Francis Kéré seated at his desk in his Berlin studio with a woven basket structure
Manufacturing

Who’s keeping the lights on?

Denmark's wind-power pioneers Vestas and Ørsted are racing to transform Europe's energy landscape, but the current crisis demands immediate solutions alongside long-term renewable innovation.

  • Issue #158
  • 23 min read
Wind turbines in German countryside landscape
Architecture

Design

Canberra’s new public installation and Nolan Giles on the joy of low-impact second homes.

  • Issue #157
  • 4 min read
Tall concrete columns arranged in a grid formation surrounded by native plantings in Canberra's Dairy Road neighbourhood
Architecture

Active elements

The Indian architect explains why he considers air, water and light to be as important to his creative process as bricks and mortar.

  • Issue #157
  • 4 min read
Bijoy Jain stands with arms crossed in his converted warehouse studio surrounded by stone blocks and materials
Urbanism

Cities, slicker

Neglected industrial parts of cities, from Rome to Istanbul, are in the throes of thrilling regeneration.

  • Issue #155
  • 10 min read
Illustration showing people viewing a futuristic mixed-use development through large windows from inside a transit vehicle
Design

Keep cool

In the island sun sits an innovative new apartment block that could reshape the city’s design ambitions.

  • Issue #155
  • 8 min read
Keep cool
Travel and restaurants

Overnight successes

Catch the Northern Lights in a small Swedish city or sample wine on a Portuguese island, where you stay matters. Here are three boltholes that are destinations in themselves.

  • Issue #150
  • 6 min read
Overnight successes

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