Architecture
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Who we’d hire
Our wish list of firms to commission for the perfect HQ, home or hotel. We profile the studios on the up, furniture firms to tap and developers to know in the UAE.
What is the big idea?
Meet the man pioneering sustainable neighbourhoods and dreaming up planet-friendly utopian cityscapes. Can his company, URB, break new ground?
Clean sweep
After revolutionising waste management in the UAE, Beeah has set a new standard for sustainability with one of Zaha Hadid’s final builds – an undulating, solar-powered, AI-controlled base in Sharjah.
Light touch
An architect’s plush and playful early modernist home in the Belgian town of Lier received a gentle polish from its new owners.
Tests of time
Architecture is about more than simply ushering ideas from sketch to skyscraper. It can play a critical role in solving global issues.
How Studio Modijefsky is reinterpreting Amsterdam’s brown cafés for a new era
Interior-architecture firm Studio Modijefsky is looking to the Dutch capital’s past to inspire its forward-thinking designs.
Turning over a new leaf
The duo behind a beloved Berlin bolthole has built a beautiful new restaurant with rooms in an enchanting forest in eastern Germany.
Trunk Hotel Yoyogi Park offers a quieter, greener vision of Tokyo hospitality
Inspired by its lush location at the heart of Japan's capital, this calm and intimate oasis is turning over a new leaf in urban design and hospitality.
Top of the class
From a school that's open to the elements to a curvaceous nursery, architecture can help to give children a head start in life. We visit educational institutions with designs that pass with flying colours.
Back on solid ground
Art and music have been a driving force behind the cultural and literal recovery of the earthquake-struck Italian city that is reopening to the world.
