A wall of timber louvres references traditional wooden beach shacks at this house in Byron Bay, Australia, completed by local architecture practice Son Studio. Named Bangalow Road House after the road that connects the town… Read More »Son Studio draws on “sun-bleached” shacks for Bangalow Road House
Humanitarian architect and post-disaster reconstruction expert Cameron Sinclair, who lost his house in the ongoing wildfires in LA, shares practical advice for people in a similar position. The week before last, I was in London… Read More »Practical advice for victims of the LA wildfires
The next instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series looks at Stefano Boeri‘s Bosco Verticale, the first “vertical forest“. Greenwashing gimmick or much-needed urban vegetation? Plants and trees on buildings evoke strong… Read More »Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale was the most significant building of 2014
Design studio OMI Collective has created an archive documenting tropical modernist architecture in Lagos, Nigeria. Here, its founder Olorufemi Adewuyi spotlights seven stand-out buildings featured in it. The archive has been created by OMI Collective… Read More »Seven tropical modernist buildings in Lagos with “a lot of intelligence to unpack”
Industrial design duo SF-SO has developed a range of modular bent-metal storage that is only 1.6 millimetres thick but can support the equivalent of a baby elephant in weight. The Thin furniture series is the… Read More »SF-SO folds steel sheets to create “paper-like” shelving system
Promotion: a project spanning several European countries has explored how it can empower small and remote places by transforming underutilised public spaces. The research project, called Smoties, sought to create a useable framework for creatives… Read More »Europe-wide initiative sets out to revitalise small and remote spaces