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Derwent Valley Villa celebrates ‘living in a garden’
Derwent Valley Villa by Blee Halligan is a project created to celebrate nature and life
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Studio Weave reimagines Devon cottage through creative addition
Studio Weave transforms cottage in Devon with Made of Sand, a textured and considered modern addition
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Twin cultural destination Photo Elysée and Mudac completed in Lausanne
Architecture studio Aires Mateus completes its building to house Photo Elysée and Mudac in Lausanne, Switzerland
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Three books chart the rise, impact, and scope of virtual worlds
Love them or hate them, virtual worlds are here to stay; and three new books explore their charms and challenges
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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McLaren Excell transforms Victorian house into refined modern living space
Petersfield House by architects McLaren Excell reimagines a Victorian home in Cambridge into a contemporary, minimalist haven
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Art Pavilion M is Studio Ossidiana’s floating circular museum in Almere
Studio Ossidiana launches Art Pavilion M in Almere, the Netherlands, a composition of three perfect rings and home to a museum of land art and multimedia
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Domus Peepem offers sustainable, minimalist Mexican housing in Cancún
Kiltro Polaris, Wewi Studio and JC Arquitectura collaborate on a new minimalist housing project in Cancún, Mexico
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Adam Nathaniel Furman on how queer spaces have shaken up the architectural canon
The architect, designer and artist offers a first look at their new London studio, and discusses their recent book, Queer Spaces, an accessible compendium of meaningful environments for the LGBTQ community. This article will feature in the August 2022, Design for a Better World issue of Wallpaper*
By TF Chan • Last updated
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Strang Design draws on Brazil for ‘environmental modernism’ house in Miami
Strang Design creates Brazil-inspired Miami house engulfed in greenery
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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RSHP: a new name for a new era of collaborative design
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners rebrands as RSHP, heralding a new era of collaborative design for the architecture practice, following Richard Roger's passing in 2021
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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This historical Florentine villa is given a contemporary rethink
Danish design brand Frama and filmmaker Albert Moya have worked together to update the Villa Medicea di Marignolle in Italy
By Hannah Silver • Last updated
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Mérida house’s low profile reveals high design ambition in Yucatán
This Mérida house – Casa Kem – by Gantous Arquitectos keeps a low profile within the Yucatán Country Club
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Richmond house blends old and new in a leafy conservation area
A design-led new home in Richmond Riverside, south-west London, blends old and new references in a calming, suburban retreat by developers Nomad
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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We explore Horace Gifford’s modernist legacy on Fire Island
We celebrate New-York-beach-house-modernist Horace Gifford’s hedonist hideaways, revisiting a story from the Wallpaper* archives, which first appeared in July 2013
By Fred Bernstein • Last updated
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Heatherwick Studio’s glasshouse architecture flowers in the English countryside
Heatherwick Studio’s new glasshouse is a floral haven in West Sussex's Woolbeding Gardens
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Trousdale Estate modernism revamped in this Carla Ridge house
Surrounded by a rippling infinity pool, this art- and design-filled Beverly Hills villa by design studio Lucas is already making waves
By Tilly Macalister-Smith • Last updated
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This Vancouver house nods to Canadian West Coast modernism
Battersby Howat Architects’ new villa in Vancouver brings together quiet luxury and lush landscapes
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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The Africa Centre reopens to celebrate culture and community
The Africa Centre has reopened to a design by London-based architecture studio Freehaus, and is ready to support community and cultural exchange from its new Southwark home
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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At home with Deborah Berke
Architect Deborah Berke talks to us about art, collaboration, climate change and the future, from the living room of her Long Island home
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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2022 RIBA National Awards: meet the UK’s best new buildings
Meet the 2022 RIBA National Awards winners, a list that aims to highlight some of the UK’s best new buildings
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Sustainable hotel design championed at Inhabit Queen’s Gardens
Inhabit Queen’s Gardens, the newly opened hospitality destination in west London, is a sustainable hotel design by architects Holland Harvey
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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A sustainable extension transforms BakerBrown’s converted forge
BakerBrown Architects crafts a sustainable extension for a converted forge project in southern England
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Modernism and nature meet in this contextual Brazilian home
Gabriel Garbin’s architecture studio utilises site-specific design and gentle exposure to nature for this modernist-inspired but very Brazilian home in Porto Feliz, São Paulo
By Martha Elliott • Last updated
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Fire-resistant Sonoma house is perched in the Californian landscape
California wildfires inspired Frame House by Mork-Ulnes Architects as a contemporary, fire-resistant home
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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O’Sullivan Skoufoglou crafts minimalist timber-clad Kensington interior
Kensington Place, a new residential renovation and extension in London, by emerging architecture studio O'Sullivan Skoufoglou, brings together warm wood and minimalism
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Rick Joy draws on context for this equestrian club in Mexico
Rick Joy's equestrian club for the One&Only Mandarina estate in Mexico's Riviera Nayarit is a serene, site-specific hub for humans and animals
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Rawlins Design breathes new life into midcentury Fire Island House
Rawlins Design respectfully remodels a midcentury gem on New York’s Fire Island, a 1969 house originally designed by architect Harry Bates
By Alfredo Mineo • Last updated