Apartment Renovations in Old Buildings
An older apartment rarely arrives as a blank page. Decades of partitions, false ceilings and quick repairs tend to hide the floors, mouldings and structure that gave it character in the first place.
Galleries and Museums at Every Scale
A space for art has to hold the work and leave room for the people who come to see it. These eight galleries, museums and cultural houses, from a single room on Santorini to
Spaces for Care and Wellbeing
A visit to a clinic or a salon starts before any treatment: at the entrance, in the waiting area, in the light and the materials around the chair. These seven projects, from a hospital
Colour Accents That Give Houses Character
Colour does not need to dominate a house to define it. A painted frame, a door, a ceiling or a small added volume can be enough to change the way architecture is
Small Apartments
In a small apartment, every decision about a wall, a floor or a piece of furniture carries more weight. These nine homes, from a 26-square-metre holiday house in Naples to a reorganised family flat
Concrete Houses Between Mass and Openness
Concrete gives a house weight, permanence and a strong physical presence, yet some of its most compelling uses emerge when that solidity is interrupted. Openings, courtyards, cantilevers and glazing turn heavy walls
Black Houses in Green Landscapes
A black exterior does two apparently opposite things in a landscape: it sharpens the outline of a building against vegetation and, in shade, allows its volume to recede. Charred timber, stained wood
Material Facades in Contemporary Housing
The facade is where a building meets the city. In collective housing, it has to negotiate repetition and individuality, enclosure and openness, technical performance and public presence. Material plays a decisive role in how these
Sociable Office Design
The row of desks is no longer the only way to plan an office. In these nine interiors, lounges, shared tables, galleries and reception spaces do much of the organising. The shift
Old Houses, New Architecture
Renovation gives a house the possibility of accommodating new ways of living without erasing the architecture that preceded them. Existing walls, structures, materials and spatial sequences become a framework
Building Within the Existing City
Residential architecture within an established city is rarely an autonomous object. Its scale, façade order, material weight, entrances, courtyards and roofline are read against structures that were already there. The question is therefore not simply
Houses Beyond the Familiar
A house is usually recognised through a familiar set of elements: walls, roof, windows and an entrance arranged around domestic life. In these projects, that recognisable language is deliberately unsettled. Geometry, structure
Community Spaces Made for Gathering
A place to gather needs surprisingly little: shade, somewhere to sit, a reason to stop. These seven community spaces, from Accra to Suzhou, are built around those basics. None of them is
Brick Houses Between Tradition and Innovation
Brick carries an unusual continuity in architecture: one of its oldest building materials remains capable of producing distinctly new spatial and constructive solutions. Its basic unit is familiar and repetitive, but the
Museums Revived
A museum does not have to start from an empty site. In these six projects, a museum is made or remade from what was already there: a chapel, a warehouse, a row of medieval
Bathing, Heat and Public Life
Bathing architecture is defined by thresholds: between exposure and privacy, heat and cold, enclosure and landscape, individual retreat and collective use. In the projects gathered here, these conditions are not treated as secondary aspects of
Contemporary Learning Environments as Social Infrastructure
Educational institutions are commonly defined by programme: kindergarten, primary school, secondary school, vocational school or university. Yet the architecture of learning increasingly has to accommodate much more than instruction. These buildings are also places of
Facades: How Buildings Face the Street
A façade is the part of a building that belongs to everyone who walks past it. These ten projects, from a small commercial building in Seoul to a residential tower in Le Havre, show
The Visual Presence of Wood in Houses
Wood becomes architecturally significant when it extends beyond individual elements and begins to operate as a continuous surface. Across façades, ceilings, walls, screens and built-in elements, its grain, colour and directional pattern
Textures in Interior Design
In these eight interiors, colour and material do more than finish a room. They set its mood, help organise its plan and tie it to the place outside. Interior design is easily
Rethinking Familiar Furniture
Few furniture typologies have been interpreted as persistently as the stool, chair, sofa and table. Their functions are established, their proportions familiar, and their design histories already contain countless variations. Yet this familiarity also makes
Curved Accents in Contemporary Houses
A single curve can change the character of an entire house. Set against straight walls, grids and planar roofs, one rounded element introduces softness, movement and a clear point of architectural emphasis.
New Layers in Old Rural Houses
Renovating rural architecture does not have to mean returning it to an imagined past. These projects preserve the material, spatial and constructive character of existing buildings while introducing contemporary ways of living.
How Architecture Creates Public Space
Public space is not made public simply by being accessible. It becomes public when people have reasons to enter, stay, meet and return. The projects in this selection start from specific conditions
When Timber Structure Shapes the House
When timber carries a building, it can also give architecture its order. Columns, beams, frames and joints become more than technical necessities: left visible, they establish the rhythm, scale and character of domestic space.
Industrial Architecture Beyond Utility
Sheds, halls, car parks and tunnels are rarely where architecture expects to be noticed. These six working buildings suggest that utility, handled with care, can shape a place as much as any civic landmark.
Warmth, Made Material
Warmth in architecture is not always a question of temperature. It can begin with colour, texture and matter: with materials whose tones seem to carry something of the earth, vegetation and built traditions around
The Long Way Across
The shortest route is rarely the point. In these nine projects, a bridge, a boardwalk or a path is designed to be walked slowly, as a place in its own right rather than a
Placed in the Landscape
To build a house in an open landscape is to change that landscape. The question is not how architecture can disappear, but how precisely it can establish its presence while allowing the place around
How Space Shapes the Meal
A dining space begins to shape an experience before the food arrives. Scale, light, material, enclosure and movement determine whether a meal feels private or collective, ceremonial or informal, removed from its surroundings or