A selection of architectural projects from across the Architecture Today site featured on Instagram.
John Pardey on how Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoët's Maison de Verre (House of Glass) redefined domestic architecture in 1930s Paris — fusing craft and industry, transparency and privacy, transforming a bourgeois townhouse into a luminous, steel-framed gesamtkunstwerk.
Webb Yates, Arup, Groupwork’s three-storey prototype at Earls Court explores how pre-tensioned stone can replace carbon-intensive materials, reimagining the structural frame as a durable, low-energy and reusable system for the future of construction.
Gort Scott has completed an environmentally-focused interior fit-out for The Portman Estate’s new head office in London, combining spatial flexibility with low-carbon materials and extensive planting.
BDP’s new school in Lemmer, The Netherlands, draws on the region’s vernacular barns to create a calm, light-filled learning environment.
Marks Barfield Architects discuss viewing buildings as material banks; drawing inspiration from biomimicry to shape the culture and structure of the practice and taking a principled position on projects at home and overseas.
A contemplative structure designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Balkrishna Doshi, in collaboration with his granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof, is the latest addition to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein.
CLUSTER and THISS Studio with Orient Productions’ vivid red pavilion reclaims public space along the Nile River in Cairo as a stage for community, performance and environmental action.
Architects and façade specialists from Foster + Partners, Propak Architectural, Farrells and Schüco discuss how they collaborated to repurpose two of London’s landmark buildings – The Whiteley and Powerhouse – at an event exploring the value of reuse and restoration.
Minimal Studio’s radical reworking of a Majorca supermarket explores consumer culture through minimalist design.
Studio DERA transforms a disused swimming pool into a light-filled, sustainable hub for learning and wellbeing.
Nelly Greig introduces Issue 1 of Architecture Today in Ireland: a monthly newsletter produced in partnership with Schüco.
Cagni Williams Associates has reworked an Edwardian terraced house in south London, replacing the rear conservatory with a Corten steel-and-glass extension, and delivering a low-energy retrofit with carefully crafted spaces.
