Manon Mollard

1 week ago | architectural-review.com | Manon Mollard

Atelier Luma’s new home in Arles hints at the level of investment required to rethink what buildings should be made ofEvery autumn, the fields are strewn with rice straw after the harvest. Farmers in the Camargue would traditionally assemble the dry stalks into windrows and set them on fire. This ancestral technique known as écobuage or ‘controlled burn’ is forbidden in France, but the Camargue benefited from a derogation.

2 months ago | architectural-review.com | Manon Mollard |Eleanor Beaumont |Kristina Rapacki

Herzog & de Meuron | Baas Arquitectura | Casa Solo Arquitectos | Nord Architects | 3RW Arkitekter | Witherford Watson Mann | Clancy Moore | Irene Barclay | Ecomimesis Soluções Ecológicas | Adamo FaidenFor most of us, life begins in a hospital and is likely to end in a medical facility too. We visit hospitals during our lives – if not for a broken arm or surgery, then for an unwell loved one. Although healthcare is a universal need, access is deeply unequal.

Mar 3, 2025 | architectural-review.com | Manon Mollard |Eleanor Beaumont |Kristina Rapacki

Suad Amiry | Anne Lacaton | HAT Projects | Níall McLaughlin Architects | dMFK Architects | Lynch Architects | Designing Motherhood | The MAAK | Organizmo | Syn | Al BordeEarlier this year, Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum was announced as the designer of the next Serpentine Pavilion. Zaha Hadid might have designed the first London pavilion in 2000, but she was followed by many men; it took another 18 years for the next sole female architect to be commissioned.

Feb 6, 2025 | architectural-review.com | Florence Wright |Manon Mollard |Eleanor Beaumont |Kristina Rapacki

‘You must stoop lower to enter,' the doorframe says, banging the top of your head should you not listen. Through the tiny window, the sea is roiling, lashing spray against the glass. The slates rattle like xylophone bars from the wind, wailing down the chimney and threatening to dout the fire. Mice scuttle behind the knotted pine panels. On a rack above your head, the moor is drying from your boots, flecked by peat and bracken.

Feb 6, 2025 | architectural-review.com | Manon Mollard |Eleanor Beaumont |Kristina Rapacki |Laura Bonell

The first good room that came to me is one I’ve never stepped in. Architecture travels as images, and some of them stay imprinted on the mind. It is a large rectangular room, the entire ground floor of a house designed by Pascal Flammer Architekten outside the village of Balsthal in the Swiss Jura. Its particularity is that it sits 750mm sunken into the earth.