Graphic novel: Well-appointed rooms | Good rooms
Jan 10, 2025 · In this short graphic novel, Zosia Dzierżawska explores the ways rooms change and interact with each other Swipe the image to see both spreads; click to view in full screen
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What is a good room? For this issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting – real, remembered or imagined. For some, the room is one designed by Álvaro Siza or Jean-François Zevaco; for others, it is one depicted in an artwork, from a Berliner Zimmer in an 1845 painting by Adolph Menzel, to …
Good rooms - The Architectural Review
For the December 2024 / January 2025 issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting. For some, the room is one designed by an architect; for others, it is depicted in an artwork. A few contributors offered reflections on the absence of satisfactory living spaces to ask: what makes a good room?
A room in the wall: Ahilya Fort, Maheshwar
The 18th-century Ahilya Fort is situated by the banks of the river Narmada in the central Indian town of Maheshwar. Its tapered masonry walls stabilise the building and retain the hillock behind it, transferring the verticality of the terrain to the artificial structure.
Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) - The Architectural Review
Jan 13, 2014 · Pevsner was part of the AR’s postwar drive to promote the softer version of Modernism that would coalesce in the visual planning theory of Townscape; but he was far from being its spearhead.Jim Richards was always adamant that Pevsner was employed as a resident historian at the AR, not a theorist or policy-maker and certainly not a front-line campaigner.
House, Sydney, Australia by Glenn Murcutt - The Architectural …
Originally published in the AR in July 1987 and first published online in July 2019 to mark the 83rd birthday of Glenn Murcutt (b. 25.07.1936) . This unusual town house is on a 5.5m wide end-of-terrace plot in a back lane behind Victorian terraces, adjacent to …
Buildings - The Architectural Review
Every building we feature has a story to tell. Whether we explore a new intervention that has shifted the fabric of the city surrounding it, pull back the covers on architectural prize-giving, or consider the possible replicable impact of a tiny prototype, every project – large or small, good or bad – contributes to an archive of the most culturally significant and architecturally ...
Folio: Sarah Wigglesworth’s dining tables - The Architectural Review
Sep 26, 2018 · <p>These drawings of a dining table formed the basis for Sarah Wigglesworth’s design of the Straw Bale House (2001)</p>
Ganga Maki Textile Studio by Studio Mumbai: ‘Craft is not a story …
Feb 6, 2017 · Tucked in the foothills of the Himalayas sits the Ganga Maki Textile Studio – a small ensemble of buildings by Studio Mumbai. In Bhogpur, near Rishikesh, this weaving facility is, like the textiles produced here, handmade, intimate and sensitive.
Waiting room | Good rooms
3 days ago · She was in a waiting room. She was in a hurry but had to wait. It was not her turn yet. The door was closed. There was nobody around to complain to. She was waiting, looking around, thinking. There is something intentionally sturdy …