In his Balkonzimmer painting, Adolph Menzel painted less a room than the light, breeze and space between walls, writes Kirsty ...

Whatever the floor material – carpeted or smooth, wipe-clean or impossible to tidy – the horizontal plane shapes the life ...

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In the river communities of Marajó Island, in the Brazilian Amazon, the main houses are connected to smaller structures that have their legs submerged in water. These spaces serve as a gateway to the ...

The Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria is a room of great weight and delicacy. Strung between the mass of bluestone walls and pinned to tapered columns is an intricate steel web infilled ...

This room in the Casa Alves Costa, designed by Álvaro Siza, is a generous hallway that connects a large living room to the bedrooms. Today, this room is also a workspace, furnished with a drawing ...

Often, when we want to meet an artist, we prefer to see their studio rather than their home, because we know that by seeing the place where they work, we will see what attracts their curiosity, what ...

Academic and adaptive reuse advocate Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is the first announced on the AR New into Old 2025 judging ...

The house in the picture of Rong Xi Zhai by Chinese painter Ni Zan in the late 14th century is our favourite room.

The Wonder Tree’s vast canopy is said to have sheltered up to a thousand people; the ancient fig tree has long been entwined ...