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 ...

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

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

Readers were drawn to accounts of a mint ice-cream-coloured extension to a Hampstead house and the upcycling of a dilapidated Victorian house into a modern brick villa Minty House by Peter Morris ...

Thin-frame aluminium sliding doors were used in the rear extension of Elemental House, a 1970s home in Hackney. The design employs a simple palette of materials inspired by the original house, ...

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 ...

Facing the ruins of Museum Gardens with York Minster beyond, the ceramic wall is the outward sign of the reworking. Credit: Peter Heaton Tucked into the top floor of York Art Gallery is a living room, ...

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 ...