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🏭 The Industry issue is here! As the shape of industry changes in cities and landscapes, Dieter Rams insists: ‘We must engage ourselves with less, but more useful, more environmentally friendly and more fascinating things.’ Read the full editorial: www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...
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‘The early utopian, neo‑anarchist vision of a democratic, unmediated internet is very dead,’ writes Zach Mortice in the AR Public issue keynote. Read the full essay in the AR Public issue: www.architectural-review.com/essays/unsoc...
Don't forget to pick up your copy of the AR Public issue, currently on newsstands and available to order from the AR online shop! shop.architectural-review.com/products/ar-...
Subscribe before 23:59 BST on Sunday 5 July to receive the AR Industry issue. This month’s issue explores industrial production at a moment of transformation as cities address post-industrial legacies and landscapes negotiate architectures of AI. subscribe.architectural-review.com/SUBS4SUN/
There are only 5 days left to shop the collection of limited-edition cover prints, selected from the AR archive by Margaret Howell. shop.architectural-review.com/collections/... The order window closes on Sunday 14 June, don’t miss out on an opportunity to own a piece of design history.
Get a glimpse of the process behind the limited-edition cover prints, in collaboration with Margaret Howell. Printed in London produced in a limited edition of just 200 the cover prints are available to pre-order until Sunday 14 June: shop.architectural-review.com/collections/...
Pick up your copy of the Alps issue 🏔️, currently on newsstands and available to order from the AR online shop now! shop.architectural-review.com/products/alps
Each giclée print is produced in a limited edition of 200 and printed on matt, natural white, 350gsm Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper. The print features a debossed AR monogram alongside handwritten edition numbering.
The curated collection of covers were chosen from the AR’s archive of more than 1,500 issues, and includes artwork based on works by Le Corbusier and Kazimir Malevich, among others.
To mark 130 years of The Architectural Review, Margaret Howell has personally selected five magazine covers from the archive, available to purchase as limited-edition prints. shop.architectural-review.com/collections/...
The Alps issue is here! 🏔️ This issue explores the architectural language shaped by mountain ridges that separate towns, regions and countries. Pick up your copy here: shop.architectural-review.com/products/alps Read the full editorial: www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...
Don't forget to pick up your copy of the Universal housing issue, currently on newsstands and available to order from the AR online shop 🏙️ shop.architectural-review.com/products/uni...
The AR Universal housing issue is here! 🏙️ As the struggle for universal housing continues, this issue collects examples that propose different financial models and ways of living together, despite a political landscape that resists universal housing.
The W Awards issue is here! 🌟 We are pleased to present the winners and shortlisted architects of the 2026 edition. www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...
The Coast issue is here! 🌊 Over a billion people worldwide live within 10km of a coast; a colossal pressure placed on the narrow ribbons where the land meets the sea. Pick up your copy in our shop, and read the full editorial online, now 🐚 : www.architectural-review.com/essays/lette...
‘The house stands out against the surrounding long-established houses, and it has taken time for its appearance to be accepted by local residents. Part of the challenge was changing the perception of how social housing is seen by local people, primarily by asserting that it is a common good.’ 2/
‘With this house, NO Architects have simultaneously challenged what houses can look like in the area, as well as assumptions about who can own one,’ explains Hollie Douglas from New Architecture Writers of No Architects Designers and Social Artists’ Koodu house in Kollam, India. 1/
‘In the kitchen, a third opening acts as a door, providing access to the commons used by the wider Sea Ranch community. This gesture reinforces Leng’s interest in collective experience through co-ownership, where environmental stewardship and access to the landscape should be for everybody.’ 2/
‘The central spine acts almost like a strip of film, recording the changes of light and seasonal conditions from room to room,’ writes Akif Rahman from the New Architecture Writers, of Glacial Erratic’s House of Four Ecologies in California. 1/
‘El Amarillo is an experimental dwelling that creates a small ‘family village’ from four differently shaped glazed steel frame boxes, all interconnected under a single square gabled roof,’ explains Štěch. Built by Castillo and his sons, the structure draws from Indigenous prototypes. 2/
‘Casa El Amarillo’s several independent volumes create a sort of intimate family urbanism,’ writes Adam Štěch in a revisit of Jorge Castillo Blanco’s family home outside Caracas, Venezuela. 1/
‘It could have ended very differently.’ says Eames Demetrios, grandson and director of the Eames Office A year on from the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades, ‘the house now represents the hub of a larger social and cultural mandate in the face of climate crisis.’ 3/
Built in 1949, the house is ‘a product of postwar ingenuity that strikes an extraordinary balance between frailty and robustness,’ writes Zeiger. Residences just doors away succumbed to the wildfires, but the Eames House survived unscathed. 2/
‘What does the Eames House teach us about conservation, care and resilience over time?’ asks Mimi Zeiger in a revisit of Charles and Ray Eames’ Case Study House 8, upon its recent reopening. 1/
Completed 120 years ago, the UNESCO World Heritage site is undergoing an ambitious programme of refurbishment, to recover Gaudí’s original interventions. ‘The restoration of Casa Batlló has made use of cutting‑edge technology, much in keeping with its curatorial programme,’ explains Gómez Moriana
‘Today’s Casa Batlló is an experience of pure spectacle inside and out – which was the intention from the very day it was commissioned in 1904,’ writes Rafael Gómez Moriana, revisiting Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló in Barcelona, Spain, on the centenary of the architect’s death. 1/
One of the few remaining historical houses on the seafront built in the 1920s, the site holds a long history of transformation, central to the project’s ethos, alongside its openness to the Mediterranean 3/