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Alvar Aalto: our ultimate guide to architecture's father of gentle modernism

Alvar Aalto defined midcentury – and Finnish – architecture like no other, creating his own, distinctive brand of gentle modernism; honouring him, we compiled the ultimate guide

Wallpaper · Jan 3, 2025

Unlocking the past: how NZ’s first jail tells a complex story of colonial identity

New Zealand’s first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay of Islands, not far from present-day Russell.

The Conversation · Jan 2, 2025

Alvar Aalto's Finlandia Hall is a modernist gem reborn through sustainability and accessibility

Helsinki's Finlandia Hall, an Alvar Aalto landmark design, has been reborn - highlighting sustainability and accessibility in a new chapter for the modernist classic

Wallpaper · Jan 2, 2025

STO.M.P on the architecture studio's work, love of craftmanship and 'the cinematic details'

We zoom into Indian architects STO.M.P from Madurai, exploring their growing portfolio and cinematic sensibility

Wallpaper · Dec 31, 2024

Killed birds, rotting sculpture and a PM’s execution: the Pakistani artists who defied a dictator

A dazzling exhibition of Pakistan’s art and architecture – some of it never before loaned outside the country – shows how the repressive 11-year regime of Zia-ul-Haq triggered an extraordinary resistance

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2024

Stone Age architecture in Near East was far more advanced than thought, archaeologists say

New study notes gradual emergence of codified building traditions around 10,000 years ago

The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2024

Testament to Spain’s golden age to open up its secret spaces after €6m revamp

Unesco-listed San Lorenzo de El Escorial was fulfilment of Philip II’s dream of raising monastery in a ‘desert’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2024

The three lives of the Edith Farnsworth House: now, a modernist architecture icon open to all

The modernist Edith Farnsworth House has had three lives since its conception in 1951 by Mies van der Rohe; the latest is a sensitive renovation, and it's open to the public

Wallpaper · Dec 30, 2024

Some people’s ancestors are kings or poets. I’m proud my family invented … the corridor

I always thought genealogy was as dull as looking at other people’s holiday snaps – until I found out about a 16th-century architect who transformed the stately homes of his era

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2024

The brutal harmony of Villa Caffetto: an Escheresque Italian modernist gem

The Escheresque Italian Villa Caffetto designed by Fausto Bontempi for sculptor Claudio Caffetto

Wallpaper · Dec 28, 2024