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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Paint the town: RIBA’s new hub is an architectural beacon in the North
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Midcentury modernist Maxwell Starkman’s LA studio converted into an office by 1100 Architect
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CHART Architecture announces pavilion competition finalists
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Escape route: React Architects align architecture and environment in Paros
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The Mies Crown Hall Americas prize finalists for 2018 are announced
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A minimalist concrete extension unfolds behind a heritage façade in Melbourne
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Noiascape’s refined co-living digs for generation rent in London
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Designed for life: West Architecture transforms a former Methodist church
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Studio Arthur Casas designs a contemporary wine cave in São Paulo for Mistral
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Studio Saxe designs a lightweight house in Costa Rica
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Scandinavia’s new sustainable stations recharge mind, body and electric cars
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A monolithic Portuguese residence forms the striking backdrop to our men’s tailoring story
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Magic circle: Arjaan De Feyter casts a spell over a silo in Antwerp
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Artist David Hartt captures a portrait of a forgotten Puerto Rican housing project
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Büro Ole Scheeren’s Guardian Art Center completes in Beijing
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Stanton Williams designs extension to John Outram building in Cambridge
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Minimalist cabin in Canada designed by Nature Humaine to bring us closer to nature
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High flyer: Herzog & de Meuron’s first residential building in UK launches
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Green house: AGi Architects design a home for outdoor living in Kuwait
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A Patagonian sheep farm gets a sophisticated remastering
Bringing a balance of Swiss practicality and South American cultural knowledge, Lausanne- and Buenos Aires-based architects Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés has renovated a Patagonian sheep farm and created a unique casa at its heart – as featured in the
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NASA brings a twist to the West Coast with shell-shaped pavilion
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Calming interiors characterise a 1950s mid century modern house in Mexico City
HEMAA Arquitectura celebrates the mid century architecture of a family house – designed by Mexican architect Augusto H. Álvarez – with a respectful renovation, plus a new material palette of light oak and grey stucco
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Join a 1960s celebration of desert modern residential design
For Palm Springs Modernism Week the residents of Park Imperial South, a modernist community with zig-zag roofs designed by architect Barry berkus in 1960, are throwing a party to celebrate the architecture and the era
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Crowd pleaser: LOT’s Flatiron Plaza installation opens to the public
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