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Metal heart: Oklahoma Contemporary by Rand Elliott Architects
31 March 2020New arts centre Oklahoma Contemporary, designed by Rand Elliott Architects, provides Oklahoma City with galleries, performance spaces and studios to support a growing local creative scene. But the building’s defining feature is its aluminium skin, which reflects the ever-changing sky of a state known for its extreme weather
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Hempcrete home: Flat House by Practice Architecture and Material Cultures
31 March 2020On a Cambridgeshire farm, a new home is made from the crop grown on the land around it. But this hempcrete house is part of an ambitious wider project exploring how natural materials can be used at scale in construction
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The struggle to save the Eames House
27 March 2020In order to save Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic home in California’s Pacific Palisades, Charles’ granddaughter Lucia Dewey Atwood has launched a long-term conservation project for the modernist monument in which she spent much of her childhood. But preservation does not mean a sealed museum, she insists
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A prison that's part of the neighbourhood
23 March 2020In Nanterre, LAN (Local Architecture Network) has delivered a surprising urban prison that’s part of the neighbourhood
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Playing with tradition: Bumpers Oast by ACME
13 March 2020In Kent, ACME has created an inventive, spacious and contemporary home inspired by the iconic local vernacular of oast houses
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From wallpaper factory to artist haven: UCLA's Graduate Arts Studio by Johnston Marklee
2 March 2020Johnston Marklee’s new UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Arts Studio in Culver City reimagines the boundaries of cast concrete to create a nurturing and functional set of spaces for the celebrated art school and its students
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Beacons of utility: the new wave of public works projects
20 February 2020From sewage works to power plants, more public works projects are harnessing architecture and civic presence to elevate the typology — and better engage people with the vital infrastructure that sustains daily life
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Cityringen is Denmark’s biggest infrastructure project for 400 years
19 February 2020Copenhagen’s new underground line took eight years to construct, cost billions and is a major part of the city’s strategy to be carbon-neutral by 2025. But this underground line from Arup is also a thing of beauty
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From gold mines to cargo ships: meet ‘nomadic design studio’ Unknown Fields
11 February 2020Matthew Ponsford sits down with Unknown Fields, whose research-led work interrogates the global networks and impacts of consumption
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Preview: Surface Design Show 2020
10 February 2020Veronica Simpson shares some of the highlights of this February’s Surface Design Show in London
