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Reciprocal House by Gianni Botsford Architects in London, UK

A new host structure for an early extension by Foster Associates, Gianni Botsford Architects’ Hampstead home traverses multiple layers of architectural history

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The Old Byre by Gianni Botsford Architects on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Catherine Slessor

On the Isle of Wight, Gianni Botsford Architects have transformed two redundant farm buildings into an armature for domestic life and artistic activity

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Asif Khan Studio, United Kingdom

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Material Cultures, United Kingdom

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Block House in Somerset, UK, by Material Cultures

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National Portrait Gallery in London, UK by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell

Catherine Slessor

More buildings in the United Kingdom

Castle Community Rooms in Framlingham, UK by James Gorst Architects

White House School in London, UK by vPPR Architects

Three Mills Studios in London, UK by Gort Scott

Royal Academy of Dance in London, UK by Takero Shimazaki Architects

Charleston in Lewes in Lewes, UK by Material Cultures

Outdoor stage in Firle, UK by PUP Architects

Exhibition centre in Firle, UK by Jamie Fobert Architects

Revisit: Charleston in Firle, UK

Revisit: Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury, UK by ZMMA

Low Carbon House in London, UK by Architecture for London

Small House by MOCT Studio in London, UK

Scott Whitby Studio, United Kingdom

Feilden Fowles, United Kingdom

Regeneration station: Open Havelock in London, UK by Alison Crawshaw

Artists’ block: A House for Artists in Barking, UK by Apparata

Croft 3 on the Isle of Mull, Scotland by Fardaa

East Ham Old Fire Station in London, UK by dRMM

Cowshed in Devon, United Kingdom by David Kohn Architects

Growing needs: Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses in London, UK by Feilden Fowles

Revisit: Straw Bale House in London, UK by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects

Gallery redrawn: National Portrait Gallery renovation in London, UK by Jamie Fobert Architects

Revisit: BedZED in Beddington, UK by ZEDfactory

Cowshed in Devon, United Kingdom by David Kohn Architects

Park Hill Phase 2 in Sheffield, United Kingdom by Mikhail Riches

Clifford’s Tower in York, United Kingdom by Hugh Broughton Architects with Martin Ashley Architects

B4 in London, UK by David Kohn Architects

A2 and B2 in London, UK by 6a Architects

A3 in London, UK by Adam Khan Architects

Post‑industrial estate: Greenwich Design District in London, UK

Revisit: Cosmic House in London, UK by Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick with Terry Farrell

Blockmakers Arms in London, UK by Erbar Mattes

Redhill Barn in Devon, UK by Type

Graal Architecture, France

Mailitis Architects, Latvia

Atelier Xi, China

Thomas Randall-Page, UK

Instituto Balear de la Vivienda, Spain

Sanchez Benton Architects, UK

Public generator: E-Werk in Luckenwalde, Germany by Pablo Wendel and Helen Turner

Power and glory: Battersea Power Station in London by WilkinsonEyre

Hackney New Primary School in London, UK by Henley Halebrown

Bulwer Road garden in London, United Kingdom by HÛT Architecture

The Marshall Building, LSE in London, UK and Town House, Kingston University in Kingston, UK by Grafton Architects

National Archives in London, UK by AOC

Centurion Close in London, UK by Islington Architects

National Youth Theatre in London, UK by DSDHA

Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, UK by Nissen Richards Studio

Portfolio: Ana Baptista, Colectivo Mel

Portfolio: Sumayya Vally, Counterspace

Revisit: Penguin Pool in London, UK by Tecton

Mountain View in London, UK by CAN (Critical Architecture Network)

Water Tower in Castle Acre, UK by Tonkin Liu

Bath Schools of Art and Design in Bath, UK by Grimshaw

Domes for the dead: Soulton Long Barrow by Sacred Stones and Greenstone Design

First class: St Paul’s School extension in London, UK by Walters & Cohen Architects

Prayer and repair: Carlisle Cathedral in Carlisle, UK by Feilden Fowles

Making good: Harrow Arts Centre in London, UK by DK-CM

Shadow of the wind: Windermere Jetty Museum by Carmody Groarke Architects

Living extra large: Here East in London, UK by Hawkins\Brown

Restorative justice: Calton Hill in Edinburgh, UK by Collective Architecture

Common sense: Marmalade Lane in Cambridge, UK by Mole Architects

God’s plan: Bethnal Green Mission Church in London, UK by Gatti Routh Rhodes

Dust to dust: Bushey New Cemetery, Hertfordshire, UK, by Waugh Thistleton Architects

Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge by Jamie Fobert Architects

Private life: the line between domesticity and publicness at Kettle’s Yard

Musical theatre: Nevill Holt Opera House, UK by Witherford Watson Mann

Adaptive learning: O’Donnell Brown, UK

Holiday pay: vacation homes by Living Architecture in the U.K. and Solo Houses in Matarraña, Spain

The experience is everything: Coal Drops Yard, London, by Heatherwick Studio

Retrospective: Peter Barber

Spotlight: house in a garden, London, UK, Gianni Botsford Architects

Light room: photographer’s house, London, UK, Hugh Strange Architects

Transport hub in Belfast, Northern Ireland by Hall McKnight

Off grid: MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK, by 6a Architects

Money talks: Bloomberg London, UK, by Foster + Partners

Out of the woods: Studio Weave, United Kingdom

Ingredients for success: Charlie Bigham’s food production campus by Feilden Fowles

A song in stone: 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, UK, by Amin Taha + Groupwork

House of representatives: US Embassy in London, United Kingdom, by Kieran Timberlake

Down to earth: Woodland research and construction near Bath, UK, by Invisible studio

Park at Rectory Farm, London, by Carmody Groarke and Vogt Landscape Architects

Holy orders: Garden Museum extension, London, UK by Dow Jones Architects

Into the woods: Cowan Court, University of Cambridge, UK by 6a Architects

Fruit of the loom: The Loom, London, UK by Duggan Morris Architects

Princess Diana Memorial Playground Lavatories in London by Jestico + Whiles

Mirror mirror on the wall: ‘After Image’ pavilion at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London by IF_DO

Sense of an ending: Red House in London by 31/44 Architects

Memorial service: Belarusian Memorial Chapel in London by Spheron Architects

168 Upper Street in London by Amin Taha + Groupwork

A host of oasts: Caring Wood by James Macdonald Wright with Niall Maxwell

Estuary English: Redshank in Essex by Lisa Shell Architects with Marcus Taylor

Hampstead homestead: Netherhall Gardens in London by Brinkworth

‘Julia Barfield sees the BAi360 as a descendant of Brighton’s most adventurous 18th and 19th-century projects’

Assorted Studio Spaces, London by Caseyfierro Architects

‘Peter Salter’s Walmer Yard is a luxe enigma that must be swallowed whole or not at all’

Maggie’s Manchester by Foster + Partners: ‘What matters is not to lose that joy of living in the fear of dying’

New and old are bound together at Caruso St John’s Newport Street Gallery

The Angel Islington in London by Eedle and Meyers

The Truscott Arms in Maida Vale, London by MS-DA

Shatwell Farm: Reshaping the rural

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The front room: a British-Caribbean interior from the 1970s

Michael McMillan

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Olympic limits: the sporting mega event comes to town

Sven Daniel Wolfe

The Olympic city continues to grow beyond planetary boundaries

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Reparations as reconstruction

Fiction: Deeds

Streatham Ice Arena (1931–2011): demolition postcard

Akil Scafe-Smith

Euston Station (1968–): demolition postcard

Oliver Wainwright

More essays about the United Kingdom

Trinity Square car park (1967–2010): demolition postcard

A woman seeks room in London

Riches to riches in Oxbridge

Migration at the margins

Caught on the commute: books written in transit

City making doesn’t have to be top down vs bottom up

Portrait: Mona Hatoum

In the interface: unbuilding Belfast’s dividing walls

Carnival collaging: Notting Hill Carnival as a constellation of culture

Bill Slack (1929-2020): ‘a superb designer, with a cultured and incisive eye’

‘Everything you do is a political act’: Owen Hatherley’s AR Bookshelf

Tracy Meller, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners: ’Behind every starchitect is an army of people’

Camera man: race, class, and British masculinity

Foreign exchange: Bauhaus in Britain

Folio: George Finch

Driving the social divide: planning in Belfast reinforces the city’s segregation

Identity check: slow architecture grows on the islands of Ireland

Editorial: no man is an island

In the margins: the influence of the Caribbean diaspora

Love letter to suburbia: Croydon’s buried treasure

Salt in the wounds: the decline and rise of the great British seaside

Typology: Pier

Out of space: changing homosexual geographies

Tortuous trajectories: the loves and lives of Modern couples

Changing places: reuse of obsolescent buildings in south London

Folio: Denys Lasdun’s model graveyard

Outrage: a toxic mix of snobbery and power governs eating in public

Comfort eating: the greasy spoon

The devil in the detail: the architecture of evidence and reconstruction of truth

Outrage: pure developer’s architecture too often forgets the value of truly public space

Notopia: Cultivating the city of the 21st century

Pleasure principles: on the homogenisation of the modern city

Andreas Gursky and an economy of scale

Outrage: the disgrace of social housing provision in England

Rus in urbe, unpacked: on countryside running through the heart of English cities

Peter Davey (1940-2018): ‘a critical acumen of exceptional range and scope’

Unfair dismissal: the legacy of female architects working for London councils

Soane’s Ark: Building with Symbols

Outrage: future generations will laugh in horror and derision at the folly of facadism

Outrage: ‘Sites of social condensation are being dismantled, neglected or sold off to the highest bidder’

Editorial: Does it matter what it looks like?

The Architecture of the Green Belt

The Europeanness of British Architecture

Folio: Peter Barber’s 100 Mile City

Outrage: ‘until the Grenfell tragedy, the housing crisis has mostly been slower and more grinding’

Editorial: London’s towering inferno raises questions of principle beyond fire control

Outrage: ‘There is a silent agreement in contemporary British architecture: you may deploy ornament, but never too much’

Matthew Beaumont on London: ‘Nothing fits in this city. Either the locks are too large or the key is too small’

Lewisham, the Notopian future of London

The architecture of the Big Bang

Outrage: ‘Trafalgar Place exemplifies a dash to socially cleanse valuable land in London’

Outrage: Commonwealth Institute Betrayed

‘In 20 years Inner London may really be like Paris, a wealthy centre surrounded by racialised poverty’

Outrage : ‘The destruction of social housing has been legitimised by conservative urbanism’s useful idiots’

Notopia: who is the city for?

Brutalism on tour

Moving pictures: Flint House by Skene Catling de la Peña

Home Economics: The British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016

Outrage: ‘Architects are complicit in the commodification of UK housing’

Moving pictures: Whitehorse Manor Schools by Hayhurst and Co

The future of London’s workspaces

‘Key to understanding Hawksmoor’s work is comparing the whole and the part’

Uncovering the forgotten works of Mackintosh

How the London Playboy Club bankrolled Hef’s empire

Fran Tonkiss: ‘Faux Baroque is not the worst thing that can happen to a 21st-century city’

David Mackay (1933-2014)

‘London’s waterways could become a shared territory around which a more egalitarian and sustainable city can develop’

Can London stay a good place to live?

Beyond objects: London Design Festival vs Kanye West

Is Design Everywhere? The London Design Festival themes under scrutiny

Made in Italy: Giorgio Casali exhibition at the Estorick Collection, London

A Preview of London Design Festival 2013

Pedagogy: University of Bath, UK

10×10 Drawing the City London

Folio: Zaha Hadid’s reimagined Leicester Square

London: Tired of Life? The Think Series 01

School buildings produce culture

London Design Festival and 100% Design

At the end of the Games, will London construction fizzle out like the Olympic flame?

Big reply to The Big Rethink

designjunction at the London Design Festival

The romantic and pragmatic history of the fan vault has lessons for contemporary structures

Niall McLaughlin Architects win chapel competition

Grand plans are afoot in Earls Court as Terry Farrell reveals his masterplan

Dennis Sharp (1933-2010)

Wake up call: BedZED as a lesson to architects

Landmark link: Salford Bridge, UK, Santiago Calatrava

Taking Flight

Houses: image or essence?

The nature of Andy Goldsworthy

Crisis in the British countryside

Milton Keynes and the urbanism of innocence

John Soane and the furniture of death

‘Many found the faith of architectural determinism a comfort as they went about the work of redevelopment’

The Museum of London by Powell and Moya

Suburban slopes: Central Hill housing in Lambeth, London by Rosemary Stjernstedt

Keep it up: Liverpool Street Station

Keep it up: George Gilbert Scott junior’s houses

Keep it up: Scott’s Emulsion factory mosaic, old Hull, Caledonia Road Church, Virginia Street

Keep it up: Holy Trinity Church, Nile Street, Damer House, Covent Garden Flower Market

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William Morris (1834-1896)

Richard seifert reputations isabel albertos crop

Richard Seifert (1910-2001)

More Reputations

Interviews and profiles of British architects, artists, photographers, designers and thinkers

Interview with Grace Blakeley

Competition insights: Harry Parr on London’s Reimagine Fireworks contest

‘The demands of the brief were immense’: Jennifer Frewen

Competition insights: Anthony Dewar on the UK’s Timepiece for the Railway contest

Competition insights: Jeannette Henderson on the UK’s Water Discovery Challenge

‘We want to get to a place where Part W is no longer necessary’: Part W

‘We desperately need more money going into local authorities to build more housing’: Fiona Monkman

‘Even now, the achievements of women are still very often unrecognised’: Mona Hatoum

‘I’m only interested in teaching that is going to shape practice’: Farshid Moussavi

Competition insights: Chris Dyson on London’s Eco Home Pavilion open call

Richard Seifert (1910-2001)

Hélène Binet: ‘I am interested in making you dream about the place’

Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944)

Thomas Heatherwick: ‘I wanted to be an inventor’

A449 Architects: ‘We are enthused by the challenge of working with an existing form’

Interview: Julia Peyton-Jones on Serpentine pavilions and London’s skyline

Adam Khan Architects: ‘Building is an amazing, intense activity’

Richard MacCormac (1938-2014)

Alison Smithson (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003)

The rise and fall and rise of Edwin Lutyens