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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Sam Jacob Studio to design the new Cartoon Museum in London
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Silver lining: Guard Tillman Pollock trace 25 residential projects over 25 years
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Corner lot: Young Projects breathe new life into a Brooklyn townhouse
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Coffey Architects redesigns an apartment in a former school house in London
Timber tricks and decluttering techniques characterise this clever Clerkenwell conversion
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New art galleries opening internationally this autumn
As well as a healthy crop of art fairs, and general back to business behaviour associated with the season, autumn offers up a veritable harvest of new art galleries opening internationally in the hubs of Paris, London and New York
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Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian architecture uncovered
Jason Oddy’s photographic study of Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian buildings, set alongside research and archival documents, explores the architecture’s inseparable relationship to revolutionary politics in a new book from Columbia University Press, titled The revolution will be stopped halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
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McGonigle McGrath’s County Down compound named RIBA House of the Year
In Northern Ireland, Belfast-based McGonigle McGrath has refined a former farmstead into a family home through a series of edits and additions made with restraint and clarity
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Bjarke Ingels joins WeWork as chief architect
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Crisa Santos designs spiritual landmarks in São Paulo park
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Parallel universe: tracing New York’s unbuilt history
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London Festival of Architecture 2017: the top 20 exhibitions and events
this year centred on the theme of ‘memory’. From starchitects to fledgling studios, housing estates to derelict buildings, the festival will take you somewhere in the city you’ve never ventured before. Here, we whittle down the impressive schedule of over 450 events to our pick of the top 20 highlights from across the British capital...
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Canadian studio ACDF designs a family house overlooking Lake Ouareau
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Carmody Groarke propose an innovative plan to preserve a historic house in Scotland
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Centre stage: Hollywood’s iconic John Anson Ford Theatres reopens after renovation
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Kipseli Architects builds a family home inspired by the Rubik’s Cube
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BuckleyGrayYeoman adds new layers to a 1920s building in east London
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Community values: Colombo Art Biennale’s collaborative architecture programme
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Office of Architecture’s unconventional Hamptons house raises the bar
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Elizabeth de Portzamparc embeds a museum into the historic centre of Nîmes
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Estudio Galera builds concrete garden pavilion for a growing family
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Simonett & Baer indexes the work of Herzog & de Meuron
Inspired by the many Herzog & de Meuron works of architecture in his home city of Basel, publisher Dino Simonett has created a technicolour tome as an index, a tribute and a celebration of the international work of the architects
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Make Architects’ London Wall high walk weaves through layers of architectural history
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Silicon skyscraper: MAKE’s Atlas Building to be highest in London’s Tech City
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Architecture Club designs a new atelier for artist Monika Sosnowska in Warsaw
An architectural exercise in purity and restraint, Polish sculptor Monika Sosnowska’s new atelier is a simple concrete volume, and the first-built project of Basel-based architects Karolina Slawecka and Pawel Krzeminski under their new studio. Photographed by Hélène Binet, the radically simple atelier was featured in the Smart Art-themed November issue of Wallpaper* magazine (W*248)
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