Author Archives: Catherine Slessor

This spiky pavilion in the landscape is a highly ingenious exploration of form and materials

Intimately anchored in human experience, the house is a powerful archetype in architectural and cultural imagination. Yet it also suggests new paradigms for how we might live more in balance with ourselves and the wider planet

Putting gender on the agenda: how the disequilibrium between the sexes could impel innovation. Read this issue here

On the site of a Victorian public baths, a new library and archive illuminates women’s lives and is a model of good practice in environmental regulation

The beautiful rippling veil of slim sticks and timber interior ensures this modest communal village library connects with its setting, stimulating both mind and eye

A soft building in France’s first ‘eco-quarter’

Thomas Heatherwick stuns Manhattan with his new store for Longchamp

Thomas Heatherwick’s characteristically inventive, seductive and radical approach to materials finds vibrant expression in this project for a city square

Part sculpture, part window dressing, this eye-catching temporary installation in a London department store celebrates the tectonic and sensuous potential of modest materials  

Radical new understandings in science, energy and the economy must be embraced by architects. Read this issue here