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Where the 15-Minute City model falls short
Moving to Spain has convinced Kunle Barker that walkable access to nearby infrastructure isn’t enough. To foster community, he argues, we need social encounters, too
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Fathom Architects upgrades 10-year-old King’s Cross workspace
Fathom Architects has revamped communal spaces over three floors at 2 Pancras Square, which was originally designed by Allies and Morrison 10 years ago
Featherstone Young adapts lock-up garage as two-storey studio
The project on a tight landlocked site in East London has created a flexible two-storey studio space while retaining the character of an existing mews
Haysom Ward Miller completes Cambridgeshire almshouses
Cambridge-based Haysom Ward Miller has completed 21 community-led homes in Great Shelford, just outside Cambridge
Nissen Richards completes first phase of new-build estate in Berkshire
Once both phases are complete, the estate, in Newbury, will have 167 apartments, central landscaping and a new link road, making it the practice’s largest project to date
A century on from his birth, Colin Ward’s ideas are more relevant than ever
Cristina Monteiro hopes radical writer Colin Ward’s values of social justice, ethics, and empowerment can still guide us towards creating places where people can connect, feel authorship and be creative
Case study: 106 Lilford Road by studio HANDS
The house replaces an existing two-storey home in Camberwell, south London, built on an awkward triangular site. Photography by Peter Molloy
RSHP completes luxury London hotel with part-suspended floor structure
The new-build Emory hotel for the Qatari-owned Maybourne group is the final part in RSHP’s comprehensive redesign and extension of the adjacent Berkeley hotel in Knightsbridge
West Port Architects designs pop-up play space in Barbican Curve gallery
Our Street is a co-designed 3D interactive installation in the shape of a London street, which invites children and families to ‘play, make and dance’
The Coach: I’m 35, getting nowhere and I feel a failure
Most of your life won’t be newsworthy, being content with what we have can be the best way to feel fulfilled, writes Matthew Turner