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Focus: Q&A

Three hospitality design specialists give us the inside track on the latest thinking and trends in the hotel sector

California dreaming: exploring the visions of the SCI-Arc graduates

As a juror at the Southern California Institute of Architecture’s Graduate Thesis Weekend, Herbert Wright got an insight into the future of architecture as seen by its would-be practitioners

Super modern meets Suffolk vernacular: Wood Farm by Studio RHE

In the quiet of the Suffolk countryside a family home has been carved from the footprint of a farmstead and a Second World War hangar site. It has also inspired London-based Studio RHE to develop a new way to address the national housing shortage

Paper Chase

Kay Hill traces the rise, fall and rise again in the popularity of wallpaper, and looks ahead to what the future might hold for this resilient decor

Open Source

Veronica Simpson looks at cultural institutions that are realising that their archives give them a unique edge, and which they are capitalising on with new buildings and spaces

Southampton sets sail: WestQuay Watermark by ACME

In Southampton’s city centre, ACME has transformed a car park into WestQuay Watermark, a ship-like multiplex structure housing restaurants and surrounded by new public space

Play Oosterwold: can a game help plan a whole new neighbourhood?

Architecture and urbanism practice MVRDV’s vision for a self-sufficient neighbourhood in the Netherlands was a simple one: those buying plots could build and live on it largely as they chose. But when game developer Play the City was brought in to replicate the evolution of the development in a game, it highlighted key issues that needed to be addressed

Reporter: FX Awards 2017

It’s November, so it has to be time for the FX Awards, being held in a gala event at London’s Grosvenor House hotel, 29 November, with Jimmy Carr as MC

Raw, robust industrial chic: White Collar Factory by AHMM

AHMM’s addition to London’s Old Street roundabout, the White Collar Factory, provides a modern workplace complex with a distinctly Jean Prouvé feel

If Only…

we could see life as it is, rather than through a phone lens, says Aaron Taylor Harvey, of Airbnb