Author Archives: Catherine Slessor

Lipsky + Rollet’s student housing blocks are a modern take on Troyes legacy of half-timbered vernacular buildings. Photography by Paul Raftery

In a Parisian courtyard, cocooned in an artificial enchanted forest, sits R&Sie(n)’s experimental house

A local architects extension to his original, now oversubscribed, school project

Springer Architekten aim to naturally insert two new buildings into a World Heritage Site’s historic ensemble. Photography by Bernd Hiepe

An apartheid museum that celebrates the ordinary is South Africa’s latest attempt to come to terms with its past

Cruz y Ortiz’s contemporary take on Amsterdam’s milieu provides a integrated home for the Rijksmuseum’s conservation and restoration departments. Photography by Duccio Malagamba

24H explore the principles of bioclimatic design with a giant bamboo manta ray

Built around four giant fish tanks, Matharoo Associates produce a bespoke concrete house, on a budget. Photography by Edmund Sumner

Beton’s simple, sober and dignified church sits comfortably within its tranquil surroundings

The huge imposing slab of Andalusia’s Museum of Memory forms a monumental gateway to the museum and adds to the edge of town site’s growing sense of place