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Academic and adaptive reuse advocate Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is the first announced on the AR New into Old 2025 judging ...

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

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 ...

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 Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) in Estonia has named the winners of its two-stage contest for a €12,000 installation at the city’s main transport interchange ...

A free-to-enter contest is being held to design coastal infrastructures in Fiji that double as landscape artworks (Deadline: 5 May) The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) 2025 competition invites ...

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 ...