Author Archives: Will Hunter

At the Rothschild estate at Waddesdon, a new house emerges from the landscape, inspired by the flint found in the surrounding chalk fields

Selgas Cano’s inventive new workspace for creative start-ups in London’s Tech City quarter performs more like a piece of urban fabric than a conventional office

The compromised concept of the Pompidu’s new outpost in Metz fails to impress

Benefiting from increased life expectancy and better healthcare, the Active Third Age are aged between 60 and 74 and lead mobile and energetic lives. As their numbers grow over the coming decades, we speculate on how this demographic group could shape and define the city of the future, imagining five…

A new architecture school seeks to unite practitioners and students in the shared pursuits of innovative design and critical research

McCrowd funding: Hoping to spearhead a bottom-up housing revolution in Britain, Kevin McCloud talks exclusively to Will Hunter about his plans to use crowd-funding to bring the self-build dream to the mass market

In this new art and architecture building, each floor has been conceived as a mini-city in which neighbourly contact between the different disciplines is gently fostered

Will Hunter introduces the AR’s special issue examining the evolving relationship between the drawing and the building

Exploring the hidden meanings of landscapes by holding ‘a seance for a place’, Mark Smout and Laura Allen’s architectural speculations create a poetic ambiguity that subverts the conventions of drawing and modelling. Interview by Peter Cook and Will Hunter

At the centre of the vast King’s Cross regeneration project, the new home for Central St Martins is a bold gambit in an emerging urban landscape