Set within a late 19th-century Parisian building, this apartment by Viviane Chil-Hagopian is designed for a client whose love of reading and music shapes his daily life. By combining two…
In Edinburgh’s New Town, architect Richard Murphy built himself a house that behaves like a three-dimensional puzzle. Nine levels stack into a tiny plot. Rooms borrow space from each other.…
Reading over these examples on the message board rattled the employees who spoke with me. “By the time I got to ‘This isn’t even our first detention center,’ that’s when…
We continue our Portland series with the Cottrell House (1949-51), designed by renowned Oregon architect John Yeon. A visionary of the Pacific Northwest, Yeon was known for his deep respect…
There is a widely held theory that our British honey bee couldn’t exist without being domesticated by beekeepers. However, for bee conservationists like Matt Somerville, this theory is ludicrous. He…
Designed by Knox Bhavan Architects as their family home, this 19th-century townhouse in Camberwell, south-east London, has been creatively reimagined with thoughtfully integrated materials, colours, and joyful details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPiqknV6Iyw
Built in the 1950s as a post-war infill block, this once vacant top floor flat in the Maltese city of Cospicua is now home to architect Lucia Calleja. Original character…
In 1895, when the National Trust was founded, homosexual acts of ‘gross indecency’ were still illegal in Britain. And yet, as Michael Hall reveals in his new book, A Queer…
Join AD just north of Barcelona to tour Semienterrada with architect Javier Barba and current owner Ezequiel Pini. Designed in the 1980s by Barba, this home’s name translates to ‘half-buried’…