Architecture

Boutique mixed-use scheme in Japan combines music and living

A mixed-use scheme combining a music hall with residential units is completed in Japan, courtesy of Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 9 October 22

Crafted cottage becomes sustainable retreat in southern England

A timber and clay plaster retreat by Hampshire-based architects PAD is a perfect rural family home

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 7 October 22

Architecture news: Letter from Mexico

By Cathelijne Nuijsink • Last updated 25 October 22

Proper Snacks breaks the mould for workplace design

With meeting pods, phone booths, standing desks and breakout spaces – all in a palette of raw, authentic materials – this central London HQ for Proper is intent on luring its workforce back into the office in style

By Kate Jacobs • Last updated 6 October 22

Alcorn Middleton's Peakaboo House is a contemporary multigenerational home

Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Meet Alcorn Middleton from Australia and its Peakaboo House

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 3 September 22

Studio Contra’s Red Clay Villa in Lagos draws on its local conditions

Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Today, we announce Nigeria's Studio Contra joining our list

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 9 October 22

Tosin Oshinowo on Sharjah, adaptable architecture and reuse

Architect Tosin Oshinowo is curating the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial around beauty, impermanence and adaptability; we catch up with her to find out more

By Shawn Adams • Last updated 6 October 22

Sleek concrete meets sculptural, drooping walls in this Ecuadorian home

Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Meet Ecuador-based Estudio Felipe Escudero, and explore its Magnolia House

By Shukri Sultan • Last updated 6 September 22

At home with Sharon Johnston

American Architect Sharon Johnston talks to us about where and how she works best, plus solitary paddleboarding, meditative dog-walking, and life and design on her home turf in California

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 6 October 22

Take a dip in Iceland’s Forest Lagoon

A serene forest bathing retreat in the wilds of Akureyri, Iceland, Forest Lagoon by Basalt Architects offers an unprecedented geothermal spa experience

By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated 2 September 22

MMA crafts Japanese home around a series of boxes

Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. Today, we welcome Japan's MMA Inc to our 2022 list

By Jens H Jensen • Last updated 6 October 22

Fernanda Marques designs Brazilian house centred on its relationship with nature

Brazilian architect Fernanda Marques reveals the expansive Casa Jabuticaba in her home country's city of São José dos Campos

By Josh Fenton • Last updated 6 October 22

Bold colour and sustainability define this London extension by Unknown Works

Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. The first to be revealed from our 2022 list is London-based Unknown Works

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 6 October 22

See Arch designs Maui house around its site's views

This Maui house is a private retreat focused on its plot's striking views, and designed by San Francisco-based See Arch

By Clare Dowdy • Last updated 7 October 22

Louvre Abu Dhabi Residences to elevate art of living in UAE

A new development of 400 exclusive residences will offer the chance to live alongside the iconic Louvre Abu Dhabi in the heart of the UAE’s Saadiyat Island Cultural District

By Simon Mills • Last updated 6 October 22

Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 curator Lesley Lokko on decolonisation, decarbonisation and diversity

The Ghanaian-Scottish architect, who will curate the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, sets out to tackle global issues through her new school in Accra

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 6 October 22

This Mérida house is designed to be taken over by nature

Casa Akúun by Arkham Projects balances the heaviness of concrete with the richness of nature in an expansive plot in Mexico

By Harriet Thorpe • Last updated 6 October 22

Donum Estate’s wine-tasting pavilion by Studio Other Spaces celebrates its land

The latest addition to California wine and art destination Donum Estate – the Vertical Panorama Pavilion by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann’s Studio Other Spaces – celebrates the soil, landscape and weather that make wine possible

By TF Chan • Last updated 6 October 22

Forensic Architecture: can architectural analysis hold power to account?

The founding director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, on scrutinising spaces and landscapes to throw light on state lies, deception and miscarriages of justice. This article originally appeared in the August 2022, Design for a Better World issue of Wallpaper*

By Will Jennings • Last updated 6 October 22

Estudio MMX’s Geology Museum on the Yucatán Peninsula is a big hit

Estudio MMX’s new crater-inspired Geology Museum on the Yucatán Peninsula is sure to be a big hit

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 30 September 22

Suspension House spans a creek in the Californian hills

Anne Fougeron has remodelled an existing house into a striking new Californian home that combines classic modernist aesthetics with a very contemporary respect for the landscape

By Jonathan Bell • Last updated 6 October 22

Last chance to see: Power, women and architectural drawings at RIBA’s ‘Radical Rooms’

‘Radical Rooms: Power of the plan’ opened at the RIBA in London in May, discussing the role of power and women in architecture through history, in particular in the development of residential floorplans; and now the show has been extended, reopening for a limited period between 5 – 24 September

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 6 October 22

Montalba Architects' monograph ponders on space, place and building

Montalba Architects launches extensive monograph, ‘Place and Space’

By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated 6 October 22

Contemporary Chandigarh house balances minimalism and warmth

Residence 145 by Charged Voids is a new contemporary Chandigarh house 

By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated 6 September 22