In a densely packed neighbourhood outside Shibuya City on the periphery of Tokyo stands a cork-clad obelisk. It is a house by TYFA, a Tokyo-based practice founded in 2019 by husband and wife Takaaki ...

What is a good room? For this issue, we asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting – real, remembered or imagined. For some, the room is one designed by Álvaro Siza or ...

‘Living in this house is like living in a garden, with my bed laid on the grass,’ says Rodrigo Callejas when showing me his new home in El Carmen de Viboral, at 2,100 metres above sea level. In the ...

Manuel Cervantes Estudio’s post-hurricane houses in Acapulco, Mexico is this year’s AR House winner, alongside two highly commended and three commended projects Stella Daouti praised the houses’ ...

Discover the most read stories on the AR’s website from the past 12 months In the past year, the AR has published thematic issues on Repair, the Mediterranean, Democracy, Sports, the Ground and ...

The jury of this year’s edition includes practitioners working across disciplines and around the world Entries to the AR Future Projects awards will be reviewed by a panel including Loreta Castro ...

A house in the mountains near Brisbane by Atelier Chen Hung is a contemporary and generous take on the picturesque The Blackall Range is formed out of dormant volcanoes, articulated by deep ridges ...

Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexico’s first civilian president, came to power in 1946 following a succession of military generals. The government was close to an inner circle of businessmen, politicians, ...

An international contest is being held to reconstruct the war-damaged State Tax University (STU) in Irpin, Ukraine (Deadline: 1 February) The competition – organised by STU in partnership with the ...

On the Isle of Wight, Gianni Botsford Architects have transformed two redundant farm buildings into an armature for domestic life and artistic activity This project was highly commended in the 2024 AR ...

A holiday retreat by S-AR on the Pacific coast of Mexico exposes visitors to an intimate contact with its surroundings More often than not, the transformation of a virgin beach into a holiday hotspot ...

A new host structure for an early extension by Foster Associates, Gianni Botsford Architects’ Hampstead home traverses multiple layers of architectural history This project was commended in the 2024 ...