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
Philipp Broinger
In a world of change - demographic, digital and climatic - certainties we once took for granted are falling away. This makes places where people come together more important than ever. Such spaces must
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