In this series we look at how wellbeing priorities are impacting our homes and how we live — from switching up the home gym for a “l(fā)ongevity room” with life-lengthening tech, to the second-home resorts upping their offerings for teens. Is the pivot?to a wellness agenda a canny move for country estates hoping?to entrench a new revenue model? Should?we all be installing?water filters, and painting our rooms white? And we step inside the home of the biotech investor behind?the Enhanced Games.?
From Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater to Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye: Owen Hopkins reflects on the home as catalyst for progress
The former Design Museum director has the best seats – in his house
In the age of America First, this year’s US pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is a good reminder of American principles of generosity
A new show at the Fondazione Prada in Venice hopes to shed light on ways of seeing far and wide
In New York, amid the perpetual construction, it can take a while to realise a boarded-up building is not actually being worked on. So too, a stop gap can sneak up on you as home
Her provocative buildings emerged from the experimentation of the downtown arts scene — and this year, the architect is back in the global spotlight
Curator Carlo Ratti promises an exhibition which looks at how architecture can adapt to an age of climate crisis. Plus: interviews with Liz Diller and Bas Smets — and the politics of the porch
From the ‘emotional’ impact of defence architecture to lava as building material, don’t miss these shows
The Belgian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, led by Bas Smets, will be occupied by a miniature forest
The British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale has assembled an international team — including a visionary Kenyan studio
The curator promises an exhibition on how architecture can offer solutions by adapting itself to extreme conditions
In 2023, the designer and his partner arrived in Higashiyoshino, Nara for a holiday. They’ve since put down permanent roots
In the world capital of high design, an architect has transformed a sooty labyrinth of vaults into a vibrant cultural nexus and innovative workshop open to makers, designers DIYers and families
The self-taught Kyushu creative is playing with past and present to create a new design language in Japan
The final work of the great American architect Louis Kahn has been beautifully restored
Two architects have built a sustainable family ‘housestead’ in Suffolk that updates the historic patterns of rural life. It’s a collage of contemporary, agricultural, military and even spacecraft influences
Once a niche interest, the top end of the market is embracing the greener home?
A palazzo in Puglia, a Jean Prouvé paradise in the Marais and off-grid living for the jet set
Meet the architects building on the islands’ unique culture, climate and coordinates
The groundscraper’s exterior stands in stark contrast to the surroundings — but the luminous interiors make the art come alive
Norman Foster’s redesign of Old Trafford brings to the fore a long-standing uneasiness about the monetisation of football
Venture into the rarefied echelons of the real estate market, where under-the-radar agents ensure utmost discretion for ￡10mn-plus transactions, and where homeowners hire elite crime prevention specialists to shore up their security. Travel from New Zealand, where forward-looking architecture connects with the landscape, to the UAE, where Dubai’s thriving market is inspiring neighbouring cities. And discover design ideas along the way
The predictable demise of an award-winning piece of architecture
With their sleek, low-lying profiles, isolated locations and connections with nature, forward-looking homes are pushing the country’s design codes — and turning local and international heads
