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1 month ago | 
architectural-review.com | Kristina Rapacki |Reuben Brown
HAT Projects’ community and industrial centre in Jaywick Sands offers vendors and small businesses much-needed room for growthRebecca Kalbfell of HAT Projects is shortlisted for the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice 2024. Find out more about the W Awards hereIn 1970, the council in charge of the small coastal settlement of Jaywick Sands in Essex issued 770 compulsory purchase orders.
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2 months ago | 
architectural-review.com | Manon Mollard |Eleanor Beaumont |Kristina Rapacki |Reuben Brown
This picture was taken on 24 March 2021, shortly after the UK lifted its third national lockdown. Tom CarpenterExplore more from the good rooms series here, or in the Good rooms + AR House issue
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
architectural-review.com | Yanqi Huang |Reuben Brown
Scale Architecture’s cost-efficient house showcases a possibility to regenerate the coastal built environment razed by bushfireThis project was shortlisted in the 2024 AR House awards. Read about the full shortlist hereIn 2020, the seaside bushland of Rosedale in New South Wales, Australia, was destroyed by the Black Summer bushfires.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
architectural-review.com | Reuben Brown
The horizontal floor plane – carpeted or smooth, wipe-clean or impossible to tidy – shapes the life lived aboveI start from the floor. Everything sits on top of it; it is the surface I am most often in contact with. The floor is key to the pleasure of the room. I am following my seven‑month‑old daughter in my enthusiasm for flooring. She has led me to pay more attention to the ground.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Reuben Brown
A house in the mountains near Brisbane by Atelier Chen Hung is a contemporary and generous take on the picturesqueThis project was commended in the 2024 AR House awards. Read about the full shortlist hereThe Blackall Range is formed out of dormant volcanoes, articulated by deep ridges carved from millennia of cascading water. There are three small towns dotted along the ridge line of the mountain range: Maleny, Montville and Mapleton.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Reuben Brown
In a workshop for a secondary school in Ostend, the Belgian duo use simple strategic moves to solve complex spatial problemsNWLND Rogiers Vandeputte was shortlisted for the AR Emerging awards 2024.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Derin Fadina |Reuben Brown
The Paris and Brussels‑based practice challenges the colonial authority of the global north, in projects both close to home and further afieldNew South was shortlisted in the AR Emerging awards 2024. Read about the full shortlist here In 1992, Meriem Chabani relocated from Algiers to Paris, where she would grow up holding on to the dream of one day moving back home, a dream that has yet to come true.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Leela Keshav |Reuben Brown
With a number of rammed earth projects under its belt, the Paris-based practice is championing the use of bio‑based materials in French constructionDéchelette Architecture was shortlisted in the AR Emerging awards 2024. Read about the full shortlist here On a quiet residential street in Boulogne‑Billancourt, a suburb on the outskirts of Paris, a new building interrupts the rhythm of plaster, stone and concrete facades.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Reuben Brown |Kristina Rapacki
The London-based practice combines architecture with materials research and educational programmes to engender a transformation in architectural productionMaterial Cultures are the recipients of the Peter Davey Prize in the AR Emerging awards 2024. Read about the full shortlist here On a recent damp day in north London, a group of volunteers were stuffing the final straw bales into the walls of a small pavilion.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
architectural-review.com | Reuben Brown |Kristina Rapacki
The Bangalore-based practice imagines a public life for a private guest house, finding community benefit in a commercial briefA Threshold is the winner of the AR Emerging awards 2024. Read about the full shortlist here The first thing Avinash Ankalge and Harshith Nayak designed together as A Threshold was exactly that: a threshold. In a renovation of an apartment building, the pair proposed a ‘breathable facade’, extending outwards from the existing building.
