Located in Tokyo’s leafy Ogikubo neighbourhood, this 40sqm/431sqft space within a multi-generational family home has been reimagined as a bright, open retreat for a daughter returning to live alongside her…
HOME visits craft artists whose environments are filled with meaning and metaphor
High on a Wellington, New Zealand ridgeline, architect Micah Rickards transformed a friend’s crumbling garage into a flexible, light-filled home for him and his partner Ivan. Organised vertically, the home…
Mira Nakashima has spent a lifetime honoring her father’s craft. For Harper’s BAZAAR’s Legacy Issue, the architect and master furniture maker reflects on growing up in the Nakashima workshop, where…
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