All articles by Ky Nikitha
Ky Nikitha
Metal heart: Oklahoma Contemporary by Rand Elliott Architects
New arts centre Oklahoma Contemporary, designed by Rand Elliott Architects, provides Oklahoma City with galleries, performance spaces and studios to support a growing local creative scene. But the building’s defining feature is its aluminium skin, which reflects the ever-changing sky of a state known for its extreme weather
Hempcrete home: Flat House by Practice Architecture and Material Cultures
On a Cambridgeshire farm, a new home is made from the crop grown on the land around it. But this hempcrete house is part of an ambitious wider project exploring how natural materials can be used at scale in construction
Radical Thinking Erdem Akan of VitrA
An interview with VitrA’s design director about the radical thinkers who have inspired him
The struggle to save the Eames House
In order to save Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic home in California’s Pacific Palisades, Charles’ granddaughter Lucia Dewey Atwood has launched a long-term conservation project for the modernist monument in which she spent much of her childhood. But preservation does not mean a sealed museum, she insists
Funerary Architecture: Designing for grief
The rituals that surround death are too emotional and important to be relegated to buildings that are soulless, functional and drab, says Kay Hill
Squaredot design IM Group Headquarters
See inside ‘The Gate’ in Solihull, the new HQ for the IM Group designed by Squaredot.
A prison that’s part of the neighbourhood
In Nanterre, LAN (Local Architecture Network) has delivered a surprising urban prison that’s part of the neighbourhood
Frame of Mind: Dominic Meyrick of Hoare Lea describes the artworks that have inspired him
In this regular series individuals from the creative industries reveal the artworks that have inspired them
Purcell creates Kresen Kernow archive and local studies centre, Cornwall
A new archive for Cornwall has been constructed within a derelict former brewery
ID:SR’s interiors for BBC Central Square, Cardiff
BBC Cymru Wales has moved to a new location in the middle of the Welsh capital. The BBC workplace team partnered with ID:SR on the workplace strategy to shape both office and broadcast facilities within the new Foster + Partners-designed base-build