Architecture is at a fertile inflection point. But while housebuilding goals, sustainability and retrofitting are dominating the agenda, why does accessibility too often remain an afterthought?
Storage becomes the star as the London institution’s eastern outpost brings its vast holdings into the light
At the foot of the Andes, the Unesco World Heritage site is becoming home to some of the world’s most adventurous skyscrapers — introducing a flashier, more exhibitionist style to the still subdued skyline
Ma Yansong’s spectacular stainless steel structure celebrates the art and stories of people who moved to the city
Curator Carlo Ratti has created a laboratory cum exhibition with a focus on repairing and remaking the world
In this series we look at how wellbeing priorities are impacting our homes and how we live — from switching up the home gym for a “longevity room” with life-lengthening tech, to the second-home resorts upping their offerings for teens. Is the pivot to a wellness agenda a canny move for country estates hoping to entrench a new revenue model? Should we all be installing water filters, and painting our rooms white? And we step inside the home of the biotech investor behind the Enhanced Games.
From Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater to Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye: Owen Hopkins reflects on the home as catalyst for progress
The former Design Museum director has the best seats – in his house
In the age of America First, this year’s US pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is a good reminder of American principles of generosity
A new show at the Fondazione Prada in Venice hopes to shed light on ways of seeing far and wide
In New York, amid the perpetual construction, it can take a while to realise a boarded-up building is not actually being worked on. So too, a stop gap can sneak up on you as home
Her provocative buildings emerged from the experimentation of the downtown arts scene — and this year, the architect is back in the global spotlight
Curator Carlo Ratti promises an exhibition which looks at how architecture can adapt to an age of climate crisis. Plus: interviews with Liz Diller and Bas Smets — and the politics of the porch
From the ‘emotional’ impact of defence architecture to lava as building material, don’t miss these shows
The Belgian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, led by Bas Smets, will be occupied by a miniature forest
The British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale has assembled an international team — including a visionary Kenyan studio
The curator promises an exhibition on how architecture can offer solutions by adapting itself to extreme conditions
In 2023, the designer and his partner arrived in Higashiyoshino, Nara for a holiday. They’ve since put down permanent roots
In the world capital of high design, an architect has transformed a sooty labyrinth of vaults into a vibrant cultural nexus and innovative workshop open to makers, designers DIYers and families
The self-taught Kyushu creative is playing with past and present to create a new design language in Japan
The final work of the great American architect Louis Kahn has been beautifully restored
Two architects have built a sustainable family ‘housestead’ in Suffolk that updates the historic patterns of rural life. It’s a collage of contemporary, agricultural, military and even spacecraft influences
Once a niche interest, the top end of the market is embracing the greener home
A palazzo in Puglia, a Jean Prouvé paradise in the Marais and off-grid living for the jet set
Meet the architects building on the islands’ unique culture, climate and coordinates
