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Minagarten, a green retail and residential development, offers locals and visitors everything from delicious pastries to calligraphy workshops.
Tread lightly
For these discerning Australians, a new place to call home means eschewing outdated ideals and focusing on a more sustainable way of living, as pioneered by one trailblazing Antipodean architect.
Residents’ campaign secures heritage status for Málaga’s Melilla 31
There’s often a temptation to pull down and rebuild but over the following pages we look at projects determined to make do and mend, starting with a modernist marvel in Spain.
In good hands
Rural retreats don’t have to be stone cottages. There’s room for sophisticated buildings that complement their surroundings too. Barcelona-based architecture firm Mesura will have you breaking new ground.
In Long Beach, Ed Killingsworth’s houses still shape California modernism
The 1960s was a golden era for West Coast architecture. Ed Killingsworth was an overlooked hero of the period, a maverick of modest mid-century housing whose work remains a Long Beach treasure.
Fixed abodes
Welcome to The Sea Ranch. Newcomers are encouraged – as long as they adhere to the aesthetic of this natural wonder
A Tasmanian architect’s long-planned revival of Captain Kelly’s Cottage
John Wardle’s award-winning Bruny Island farm has a new showpiece: a mariner’s cottage, tranformed.
At the feet of gods
Relaxed yet smart, Philopappou is a counterbalance to busy Athens life and attracts those seeking inspiration from its ethereal architecture.
A careful restoration brings Harwell Hamilton Harris’s Birtcher-Share House into a new era
How do you improve on perfection? For the owners of the Birtcher-Share House it meant asking what the architect would have done and matching his humility at every step.
Inside Casa Xina, a striking architectural gem in Barcelona
Casa Xina is all China-inspired folly on the outside but inside it’s a world of quiet and calm. And the residents are happy to conspire to keep it that way.
