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Focus: Bespoke – Make a statement

Jill Entwistle looks at some of the UK-based companies offering bespoke luminaire design services

Focus: Trends

DPA’s Nick Hoggett examines current trends and technology enabling seamless and sophisticated results

Collaborative city

Madrid has a creative spirit at play, fuelled by artists, designers and architects looking for a more collaborative way to live and work

Buoyant futures: architecture turns to urban waterways

Urban waterways, once so vital as transport arteries for trade, are now targets for the newest kind of development: floating architecture

Gasholders London: from industrial structures to luxury housing

A unique trio of Victorian iron frames in which gas tanks once rose and fell, now host another unique structure — a trio of cylindrical apartment blocks. Referencing the industrial heritage, they are the latest additions to the trending, creative quarter of King’s Cross, London

From here to modernity

Stephen Hitchins looks at the beginnings, highlights and legacy of the Bauhaus, now approaching its centenary year

Social housing goes for gold: 168 rue de Crimée by Metek Architecture

A bold and unusual social housing project in Paris by Metek Architecture has an eye-catching golden exterior — but it’s hidden away in two redesigned off-street courtyards

Continuing an architectural journey: Kettle’s Yard by Jamie Fobert Architects

Kettle’s Yard, the eccentric museum in Cambridge, has undergone a renovation by Fobert that improves accessibility while complementing the museum’s existing Victorian vernacular and mid-century modernism

Reporter

The first stretch of the new Elizabeth line (Heathrow to Paddington) is due to open.

If Only

we could escape via hydrogen power says Susana Sousa Egido, architect, Goddard Littlefair.