Harriet Thorpe
Harriet Thorpe is a writer, journalist and editor covering architecture, design and culture, with particular interest in sustainability, 20th-century architecture and community. After studying History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and Journalism at City University in London, she developed her interest in architecture working at Wallpaper* magazine and today contributes to Wallpaper*, The World of Interiors and Icon magazine, amongst other titles. She is author of The Sustainable City (2022, Hoxton Mini Press), a book about sustainable architecture in London, and the Modern Cambridge Map (2023, Blue Crow Media), a map of 20th-century architecture in Cambridge, the city where she grew up.
Latest articles by Harriet Thorpe
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wHY designs Frieze Los Angeles tent at Paramount Studios location
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V&A pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale to explore the legacy of Robin Hood Gardens
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Uphill from here: Robert Dye Architects creates a lofty, larch-clad home in Hampstead
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The four faces of WTARCH’s Echo Park live/work apartment building
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Chance de Silva’s curved concrete volume shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year
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Liddicoat & Goldhill’s Makers House shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year
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Tonkin Liu’s Yorkshire house inspired by a shed joins the RIBA House of the Year shortlist
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Tikari Works’ subterranean city escape shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2019
Commended by the judges for its warm interiors, concise material palette and refined joinery, the Pocket House shows how intelligent planning and commitment to quality can combat any restriction
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DDG launches townhouse inside a Beaux Arts building in Brooklyn
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Rest assured: LOT’s Flatiron installation encourages New Yorkers to relax
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Johnston Marklee orchestrates a smooth redesign of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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The Kai Art Center opens in a renovated submarine factory in Tallinn
Tallinn-based KAOS Architects leads a sensitive restoration of an avant garde industrial building by the sea for the new Kai Art Center. Once a submarine-making warehouse for the Russian Tsar, the concrete building with 6m ceiling heights and gracefully arching roof was an ideal spot for the previously nomadic contemporary arts organisation.
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Concrete plans: inside KAAN Architecten’s Rotterdam offices
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KAAN Architecten injects new life into a historic building in The Hague
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Bucolic block: Herzog & de Meuron reveals designs for a Swiss lakeside office
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Graham Baba Architects designs Seattle gallery for glass artist Lino Tagliapietra
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ELLA designs Chicago Architecture Biennial graphic identity
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Diébédo Francis Kéré to design the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion
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Creative benches pop up in the city for the London Festival of Architecture
The London Festival of Architecture reveals five new public benches in London designed by young architects and designers to encourage creativity, conversation and contemplation
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Chicago Architecture Biennial announces curatorial theme for 2019 edition
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Di Gregorio Associati's cinematic pergola frames a rural Italian home
A concrete pergola becomes a frame for the landscape, and a sculptural transition between interior and exterior, at a house in the Emilian countryside
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A concrete family compound in Basel by Buchner Bründler creates a family microcosm
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Bacatete House in Mexico City carves a pathway into an urban escape
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Chart Architecture shines the spotlight on the hottest young Nordic talents
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