The brief was direct: transform an ancient farmhouse outbuilding into a family home in Chamboirat, a small hamlet in Auvergne’s countryside. From the outside, the structure reads as familiar rural
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A textile-led château stay near Montpellier, where circular design is built into maintenance, repair, and re-dyeing.
A historic harbor structure reimagined as a public cultural landscape on the Le Havre waterfront
An essay drawn from Renzo Piano’s reflections on Centre Pompidou, tracing how it resisted museum intimidation, made emptiness an urban icon, and treated renovation as a cycle of care.
In the rugged foothills of Corsica’s Alta Rocca region, Amelia Tavella Architectes has breathed new life into the Convent Saint-François, a historic monument dating to 1480 in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano. Long abandoned
Armand Nouvet completes two social housing residences on Orteaux and Pajol streets in Paris, using timber detailing, verandas, and a double envelope facade with a Trombe wall strategy to improve comfort through low tech design.
A timber stable by f+g Architectes in France integrates into its landscape through passive design and a restrained material palette.
SoftPower begins with a recognisable wartime object: the sandbag. A tool of emergency and defence, it carries the visual weight of conflict zones and climate disasters, where protection is improvised
In the former service quarters of the Château of the Domaine d’Ors, architect Leo Berellini has completed a new multipurpose hall for the town of Châteaufort, bringing a contemporary civic
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