As well as providing Parisians with housing, LAN Architecture’s 16-storey tower has also served as an experimental research ...

Patrick McEvoy on the trials and tribulations of winning a fun architectural seating competition, and how it all ended ...

There’s no clutter to be seen in Prewett Bizley’s serene, airy The Orchards in Somerset – the stuff of life is all stowed ...

A built-environment reboot will bring opportunities, threats and frustrations as the wider construction community adjusts to ...

Sustainable construction practices are essential on new commercial and residential building projects. Unlike many building ...

In an era dominated by technology, this selection of drawings of Hong Kong demonstrates how the art of sketching remains a ...

This new hostel for the homeless takes the colours of the long rear garden of an existing hostel as inspiration and camouflage. The overgrown garden, its outbuildings and a substandard hostel ...

Regeneration of the east wing of Alexandra Palace involved much-needed conservation work on the building envelope. It also opened up a vast newly glazed top-lit space originally conceived as an ...

Who do you call to make a cooling, self-cleaning ceramic facade? A toilet manufacturer, of course The NBF Osaki building in Tokyo – its east facade a network of fine ceramic pipes with rain water ...

Johan Hybschmann, co-founder of architect Archmongers, reveals how the firm used sliding doors, Staffordshire red quarry ...

Readers were drawn to accounts of a mint ice-cream-coloured extension to a Hampstead house and the upcycling of a dilapidated ...