In the aftermath of catastrophe, architecture is tested not by how it photographs but by what it restores: privacy, warmth, agency. Shigeru Ban’s work insists that the “temporary” is not
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Creative Architects (CTA) develops a floating prefab house that rethinks flood resilience in Vietnam, combining lightweight 5G construction, cultural insight, and autonomous systems for year-round living.
Jean-Louis Chanéac pioneered parasitic cells and organic architecture. Iconic works: Bulle Pirate, Villa Chanéac, and archorégion.
For more than a century, Old Trafford has stood as one of football’s most recognisable arenas, but also as a layered architectural record of Manchester’s industrial past, wartime reconstruction, and global sporting culture. As plans emerge for a new 100,000-seat stadium designed by Foster + Partners, the future of the Theatre of Dreams raises a deeper question: what happens when an architecture built from collective memory is asked to reinvent itself.
In this interview, French ceramic artist Manon Benoit discusses her stoneware sculptures, where clay becomes a vessel for memory, gesture, fragility and transformation.
An interview with Rogelio Vallejo Bores on how voids, movement and perception shape a deeper relationship between architecture, landscape and human experience.
Rediscovering African vernacular architecture: Timeless lessons in sustainability from Built By Hand
Rediscover African vernacular architecture through *Built by Hand*: earthen mosques, kasbahs, rondavels and rock-hewn churches reveal climate-smart, low-carbon building intelligence. From Djenné to Lalibela, and from Kéré to Kamara, this essay traces how community-led traditions can inform Africa’s fast-growing cities and a regenerative architectural future.
In the rolling fields of a Devon farm, where a young David Chipperfield once imagined a life mending animals as a veterinarian, the foundations of a disciplined temperament took root.
Munich based Studio von Schoenebeck has translated the charged romance and metaphysical tension of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita into a minimalist chair duo that only fully “reads” when
Vietnamese artist TIA Thủy Nguyễn discusses Resurrection and Unity, exploring transformation, craft traditions, and public art in Hanoi.
- The timeless elegance of domestic appliances: From the Iconic Braun KF 20 aromaster to the German design ethos
- Emilio Ferro on the light, sound and memory of a place
- At Maniwa, an architect’s family home opens to the neighbourhood
- What bronze remembers of the hand
- Caught in light: Moradavaga’s suspended shoal
- The making of Alex Chinneck’s impossible Dior windows
