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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A Scottish home with Carlo Scarpa influences wins the RIBA House of the Year 2016
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The winners of the inaugural Africa Architecture Awards announced
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In Downtown Miami, Rafael Viñoly’s latest luxury development is on point
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OMA collaborate with local architect Anne Fougeron on San Francisco residential tower
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Ole Scheeren to transform a Frankfurt residential block in first European project
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Venice Architecture Biennale’s new crop of national pavilions for 2018
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Future perfect: a new era for Preston Bus Station
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Model citizen: a cathartic return to the Richard Meier Model Museum
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Wonder walls: a new book celebrates the modernist house as a cultural icon
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Tree of thought: Francis Kéré reflects on his design for the Serpentine Pavilion
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Art world: explore a minimalist home in Canada designed for an art collecting couple
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A timber house in a Japanese forest brings a couple closer to their family
A couple's new home in a forest in Okayama, next door to their family, has been designed by Osaka based architect Tsubasa Iwahashi with equal parts of togetherness and independence
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A Hamptons home by Bates Masi + Architects takes a nautical turn
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Corten protects a family house from the extreme environment of Chilean Patagonia
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Gensler designs a co-working space for the Stephen Lawrence Centre to empower young people and start-ups
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Type hype: Ben Adams Architects design new office for Monotype
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Mountain-top photography gallery the Lumen Museum opens in the Italian Dolomites
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London-based Tikari Works selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Nicola and Ty Tikari combine pragmatism and craft in a practice that fuses design, construction and property development. The studio acquires land, then designs and builds, rigorously taking control of each stage of production, as demonstrated with the construction of their own home, the semi-subterranean Pocket House (pictured) in East Dulwich, London.
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Lord Richard Rogers announces new fellowship scheme at Wimbledon House
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Barcelona-based Nomo Studio selected for Wallpaper* Architects' Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Founding partners Alicia Casals and Karl Nyqvist have collectively gained experience at the likes of OMA, Kengo Kuma and BIG. Driven by innovation and the pursuit of the unique, the Barcelona-based studio, whose projects include the Frame House (pictured) on Menorca’s northeast coast, is currently in the process of setting up a branch in Stockholm.
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Minimalist interiors inside Álvaro Siza’s New York residential building revealed
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Architects 6a reveal new MK Gallery design in Milton Keynes
MK Gallery's stainless steel extension and redesign by 6a reflects the modernist ideals of the town of Milton Keynes built in the 1970s, through its logical planning, colour scheme and references to the High Tech architecture movement
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Swiss architect Leopold Banchini selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Swiss architect Leopold Banchini founded his studio in 2016. His pre-fabricated timber house in Geneva, Casa CCFF (pictured) demonstrates his independent and playful approach to building.
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London’s brutalist Balfron Tower opens two eclectically designed show apartments
Ab Rogers Design and Studio Egret West have combined restoration, creativity and collaboration to design the interiors of two show apartments in one of London’s most iconic residential towers
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