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 ...

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

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

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

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

The front room was the sacred room in the home where guests were entertained. Today, we call it the living room.

The Architectural Review is an international magazine publishing essays, building studies, interviews, profiles, competitions and material from the archive.

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...