In his Balkonzimmer painting, Adolph Menzel painted less a room than the light, breeze and space between walls, writes Kirsty ...

Whatever the floor material – carpeted or smooth, wipe-clean or impossible to tidy – the horizontal plane shapes the life ...

This room in the Casa Alves Costa, designed by Álvaro Siza, is a generous hallway that connects a large living room to the bedrooms. Today, this room is also a workspace, furnished with a drawing ...

In the river communities of Marajó Island, in the Brazilian Amazon, the main houses are connected to smaller structures that have their legs submerged in water. These spaces serve as a gateway to the ...

The Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria is a room of great weight and delicacy. Strung between the mass of bluestone walls and pinned to tapered columns is an intricate steel web infilled ...

Often, when we want to meet an artist, we prefer to see their studio rather than their home, because we know that by seeing the place where they work, we will see what attracts their curiosity, what ...

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 ...

The house in the picture of Rong Xi Zhai by Chinese painter Ni Zan in the late 14th century is our favourite room. It is the simplest study we have ever seen: four pillars, a thatched roof and a ...

Its vast canopy is said to have sheltered up to a thousand people. With 13 trunks and covering an area of more than 50 metres in diameter, this ancient fig tree has long been entwined in a tapestry of ...

The front room was the sacred room in the home where guests were entertained. Today, we call it the living room. A product of postwar Caribbean migration, this front room emanates from the Victorian ...

My favourite room is, without a doubt, the central living space of the villa and studio that the Moroccan‑French architect Jean-François Zevaco designed for himself in 1975 in Casablanca. This space ...