Category: Architecture
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Norman Jaffe’s Turetsky House: A Modernist Original for $4.25 Million
Built in 1977 on Long Island, Norman Jaffe’s Turetsky House has returned to the market. Its reported appearance in Amazon’s Fallout has drawn fresh attention to a residence originally celebrated for its unconventional planning and its relationship with the landscape. When Architectural Record included Norman Jaffe’s house in Old Westbury in its annual survey of…
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Tashkent: An Art Centre with a Past
Studio KO’s conversion of a 1912 industrial complex brings contemporary art into contact with Uzbek craft knowledge and an artistic history that long predates the opening. Russian-era bricks, patinated copper and bread stamps make an unusually concise introduction to Tashkent’s new contemporary art centre. They are the materials of Nari Ward’s Tashkent Groundin (2026), an…
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Salem Charabi: The Architecture of Belonging
From the cabinetmaking workshops of Copenhagen to the ancient craft traditions of Cairo, Danish-Egyptian architect Salem S. Charabi is developing a distinctive language of contemporary design. With a landmark exhibition in Giza, a new publication and an appearance at Design Miami Paris, his work raises larger questions about cultural inheritance, material intelligence and what it…
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Sacré-Cœur: Faith, Politics and a Night Above Paris
Sacré-Cœur occupies an unusual place in the imagination of Paris. Its white domes are immediately recognisable, yet the familiarity of the silhouette can obscure the complexity of the building beneath it. Above Montmartre’s streets, the basilica brings together religious devotion, nineteenth-century political conflict and an architecture designed to make belief visible across a city. Its…
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Diébédo Francis Kéré: Building With the Village
Diébédo Francis Kéré grew up in a village in Burkina Faso with no electricity and no school. He went to Berlin on a scholarship, became an architect, and came back to build one. What he discovered in that act — about materials, about community, about what architecture is actually for — has been reshaping the…
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Gil Schafer
Makers & Rooms — Essay VII The House That Remembers You Gil Schafer builds houses that feel as though they have always been there. This is not an accident, a stylistic affectation, or a retreat from the present. It is the result of a very particular theory about what a house is for — and…
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Villa Nava by Francesco Castiglioni
Francesco Castiglioni made that declaration. The house he designed in the early 1970s on Via Ippocastani — known as Villa Nava, a building that has been featured in the international architectural and design press with the consistency that attaches to buildings of genuine formal intelligence — is not a house that apologises for what it…
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Peter Pennoyer
Makers & Rooms — Essay V The Classical Present Peter Pennoyer builds in the tradition of McKim, Mead and White and sees nothing remotely conservative about it. In an architectural culture that treats ornament as embarrassment and history as weakness, he has spent thirty years making the case that the classical orders are not a…
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Zaha Hadid
The Architecture of Impossible Things Zaha Hadid spent sixteen years designing buildings that could not be built. When the technology finally caught up with her imagination, she remade the skyline of the world. The question she never stopped arguing about was whether any of it was actually for the people inside. By Bergotte There is…
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The Ennis House
The House That Time Built Wrong Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Ennis House in 1923 using a system of patterned concrete blocks that he believed could democratise beautiful architecture. The building that resulted was neither democratic nor entirely stable, but it was something rarer: a structure so formally complete, so strange in its relationship to…
