Brick architecture
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This Mexico City home is designed around its internal courtyards
Casa Mika, a modern Mexico City house by ASP Arquitectura Sergio Portillo, combines privacy and outdoor living thanks to its internal courtyards
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Max Dudler bridges past and present in his railway museum visitor centre in Bochum
A visitor centre for the Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum, the German city's private railway museum, this minimalist brick volume is the work of Swiss architect Max Dudler
By Nick Leech Last updated
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House envy: Studio KO’s latest monograph is a page turner
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Toronto's High Park Residence reinvents the traditional suburban house
A new project by Batay-Csorba Architects, High Park Residence, radically reimagines the suburban house archetype in Toronto
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Manuel Herz’s Tambacounda Hospital in Senegal is rooted in community
A brick extension to the Tambacounda hospital in Senegal by Switzerland-based architect Manuel Herz is a true project of collaboration, rooted to the local community
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Saving the IIM Ahmedabad dormitories by Louis Kahn
We discuss the threat to the Indian Institute of Management's Ahmedabad dormitories by Louis Kahn with Noor Dasmesh Singh (architect, urbanist and principal of award-winning NOOR Architects Consultants based in Chandigarh, India)
By Noor Dasmesh Singh Last updated
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Buckle Street Studios brings a touch of New York to London
Buckle Street Studios in east London by New York City architecture studio Grzywinski+Pons offers a blend of functions wrapped in an elegant grey brick and glass block
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Borough Yards revives industrial part of south London as retail hub
We tour the newly launched Borough Yards by SPPARC, south London’s latest shopping and dining destination
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Mews house in Battersea gets facelift by Groves Natcheva Architects
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Anupama Kundoo and the architecture of happiness
From craft-inspired baked kiln homes to comforting jali-walled classrooms, architect Anupama Kundoo explores groundbreaking techniques to design happiness-inducing buildings for every context. She talks with writer and trained architect Shumi Bose about design for contented living
By Shumi Bose Last updated
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Stanton Williams’ Fleet House draws upon its Hampstead context
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The life lessons of Swedish modernist architect Sigurd Lewerentz
Stockholm’s ArkDes museum celebrates Sigurd Lewerentz’s architecture for body and soul with a publication and exhibition, ‘Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life’
By Natasha Levy Last updated
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Harty and Harty design the perfect artist’s studio in Norfolk
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Brick jaali screens soften Collective Project's Bengaluru house
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Stay tuned to discover who we featured this year, including Indian practice Collective Project
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Satish Jassal's Southwark house is rooted in craft
We visit Southwark Brick House, an exploration in volume, light and materiality by London-based architect Satish Jassal
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Old North London timber yard transformed into little ‘village'
Emerging architecture studio kennedytwaddle completes a cluster of five houses in North London, guided by a sensitive approach to context and the environment
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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IF_DO’s Thorpeness Beach House adds contemporary charm to UK seaside village
IF_DO’s resolutely contemporary coastal retreat swims against the tide in the quaint seaside village of Thorpeness, Suffolk
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Adam Richards designs a new education facility for a 16th century castle by the sea
While working from home in London, we've been plotting places to visit in the UK when the lockdown lifts. Adam Richards' new education facility for Walmer Castle in Kent is a new reason to visit this historical treasure, once the residence of the HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and set within eight acres of gardens
By Harriet Thorpe Published