Whatever the floor material – carpeted or smooth, wipe-clean or impossible to tidy – the horizontal plane shapes the life ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Doing away with rigid definitions and profitability concerns, the room can become an indeterminate space full of unexplored potentials ...

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

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