Residential
The best of residential and non-commercial living spaces, and the most inspiring of houses and homes
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Bass Coast Farmhouse brings drama to the Australian countryside
Bass Coast Farmhouse by John Wardle Architects is a rural dwelling in Australia’s Victoria, balancing contemporary design and traditional typologies
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Mountain House is a contemporary South African hillside retreat
Architect Chris van Niekerk has designed a private mountain house that nestles into its site, providing space, views, and a sense of time and evolution
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Winter House is a Florida home designed for modernist living
Winter House by Steven Harris Architects is a Florida home that brings together serenity, nature and idyllic modernist living
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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The 2022 RIBA house of the year is among these homes
The hunt for 2022 RIBA House of the Year is starting, and this longlist contains the home that will be crowned the winner on 7 December – watch as the judges whittle down a shortlist weekly
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Oza Sabbeth offers a modern take on a rural Sagaponack home
Living Levels by Oza Sabbeth is a Sagaponack home inspired by its site and local vernacular
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Roz Barr’s terrace house extension is a minimalist reimagining
Terrace house extension by Roz Barr Architects transforms Victorian London home through pared-down elegance
By Nick Compton • Published
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Bold Estonian cabin offers secluded forest stays
KÄBI is a contemporary Estonian cabin by b210 Architects, a modernist oasis for two with a backdrop of birch trees
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Oxford house extension brings Gothic revival to the 21st century
Oxford house extension project Quatrefoil House by Hyde + Hyde blends old and new with flair
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Cork House is a London home that turns challenges into strengths
Cork House, a family home in London’s Forest Gate by architecture practice Polysmiths, makes the most of its site and story
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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London midcentury courtyard house gets a refresh by William Smalley
This midcentury courtyard house refurbishment project by William Smalley is the result of the architect’s close work with clients and the building’s original fabric
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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This boxy house on the shores of Canada celebrates its site and makers
The Sandbox by Halifax-based Peter Braithwaite Studio, a boxy house in Canada’s New Brunswick, celebrates its site and makers
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Elemental House is an architectural grand prize in Mexican charity raffle
Elemental House in Mexico, designed by Elemental-Alejandro Aravena, is to be offered as first prize in a raffle organised by charity Sorteos Tec
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Tree View House blends warm modernism and nature
North London's Tree View House by Neil Dusheiko Architects draws on Delhi and California living
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Maison de Verre: a dramatic glass house in France by Studio Odile Decq
Maison de Verre in Carantec is a glass box with a difference, housing a calming interior with a science fiction edge
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Glass Cabin is a glowing addition to an ancient cottage in a Czech Forest
Mjölk Architects created the Glass Cabin as a mix of old and new, a masterful symphony of materials and textures
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Modernist Coromandel farmhouse refreshed by Frankie Pappas, Mayat Hart and Thomashoff+Partner
An iconic Coromandel farmhouse is being reimagined by the South African architectural collaborative of Frankie Pappas, Mayat Hart and Thomashoff+Partner
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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East London house extension infuses Victorian home with warm modernism
Blurton Road by London architecture studio Emil Eve is a residential extension project that transforms a modest Clapton house
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Chester House is the perfect little Canadian country home
Chester House by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects is an exercise in Canadian simplicity
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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House Be is a minimalist dwelling amid nature
House Be by A2o architects is a minimalist family home rising from its green Belgian countryside setting
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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We visit Malin + Goetz founders’ balanced Upper West Side apartment
Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz, the founding partners of beauty brand Malin + Goetz, are the owners of this New York apartment crafted by architecture firm Messana O’Rorke (MO’R), and featured in the studio's latest monograph, Building Blocks
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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Powerhouse at Chelsea Waterfront transforms Lots Road Power Station
Powerhouse at Chelsea Waterfront is a historical London power station reimagined as a state-of-the-art, contemporary mixed-use scheme, while honouring the structure's past
By Ellie Stathaki • Published
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Hinterland House explores notions of nature, sustainability and a back-to-basics approach
Daniel Boddam Studio's Hinterland House explores nature, materials and ideas of sustainability and isolation
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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A New Zealand homestead opens up to its magical landscape
Flock Hill Homestead by Warren and Mahoney is all about the magical natural landscape that surrounds it
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated
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The radical refurbishment of an Australian farmhouse into a family retreat
The Seat is a spectacular house by Atlas Architects, born from the bones of a 1980s-era structure and re-shaped to take in the impressive landscape of Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Måns Tham’s A-frame house is a considered ski lodge retreat
Swedish architect Måns Tham composed an idyllic A-frame house in the forested, northern landscapes of Edsåsdalen
By Shiori Kanazawa • Last updated
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This forest retreat in British Columbia offers architectural shelter
SM Studio’s Forest House is a refined contemporary take on traditional cabin design, offering up seasonal variations and a more grounded pace of life for their clients
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Wallmakers’ sustainable architecture scoops Royal Academy Dorfman Award 202
Indian architecture studio Wallmakers and its founder, Vinu Daniel, are crowned winners of the prestigious Royal Academy Dorfman Award 2022
By Ellie Stathaki • Last updated