Whatever the floor material – carpeted or smooth, wipe-clean or impossible to tidy – the horizontal plane shapes the life ...

In his Balkonzimmer painting, Adolph Menzel painted less a room than the light, breeze and space between walls, writes Kirsty ...

Academic and adaptive reuse advocate Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is the first announced on the AR New into Old 2025 judging ...

The house in the picture of Rong Xi Zhai by Chinese painter Ni Zan in the late 14th century is our favourite room.

The Wonder Tree’s vast canopy is said to have sheltered up to a thousand people; the ancient fig tree has long been entwined ...

A room which is inconclusive offers profound peace yet also openness. Such a place can be found in Álvaro Siza’s Casa Alves ...

In the river communities of the Brazilian Amazon, houses are connected to smaller annexes with legs submerged in water.

Being in the artist’s studio is the beginning of a conversation – a conversation in which we participate in a growing world ...

My favourite room is the central living space of the villa and studio that Jean-François Zevaco designed for himself in 1975 ...

The W Awards, formerly known as the Women in Architecture awards, celebrate exemplary work by women and non-binary people, from lifetimes of achievement to the work of those with bright futures ahead, ...

We draw lines to make sense of things. We make a border; delineating inside and out, urban and rural, centre and in-between. This issue is about the matter that makes up the line, the bits that are ...

The ground under our feet is more mutable than solid. It can be dug, carved, molded, piled up and packed into walls. In this issue, we explore earth and architecture, from the formation of the first ...