I think I like it

I think I like it

Knowhow Shop's 'Lighthouse' is a micro-office that's built like furniture and looks

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Sustainability and site sensitivity define this year's RIBA Stirling Prize Winner

Breaking down this year's politically-charged Turner Prize nominees

Breaking down this year's politically-charged Turner Prize nominees

Like the Man Booker Prize is to literature and the RIBA Stirling Prize is to architecture, the Turner Prize is not just one of the world's most renowned awards for contemporary art, but a useful indicator for the most pertinent socio-cultural preoccupations existing in today's globalised world. Officially, the Turner Prize aims to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art. Established in 1984, it is awarded to a British artist for an outstandin

Moveable feasts: Merrett Houmøller's pop-up kitchen defies cultural borders

Moveable feasts: Merrett Houmøller's pop-up kitchen defies cultural borders

Describing themselves as "relatively young and still optimistic", London-based architecture studio Merrett Houmøller are delivering on their self-set goal to create architecture for the greater good. Their recent colourful project – a compact, collapsable and transportable kitchen – is their response to the RIBA design competition, Beyond Borders, which sought to unite vulnerable young people who have crossed borders to get to the UK. Cover image: Beyond Borders, Merrett Houm

Ellsworth Kelly's built reverie – exalting colour, surface and material

Ellsworth Kelly's built reverie – exalting colour, surface and material

In January 2015, the abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly gifted the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas a design concept for his most monumental work: the first and only building the artist designed, as well as the last project before his death that following December. The Austin chapel, as it's named, has quickly become the apple of the culture crowd's eye, drawing over 2,000 viewers to its opening earlier this month. But aside from its photo-op value and minimalist-a

Floating tranquility in the south of France

Floating tranquility in the south of France

Atelier Lavit have brought to life a new version of Spartan luxury with their floating timber Eco-hotel in Lac de la Lionne – a fishing reserve in Avignon, France. Ten suites have been designed and built in a new-age-primitive spirit, floating close to the shore of a tranquil lake. The suites rest on the water's surface like rafts, with different densities of vertical wooden screens bordering their perimeters, guaranteeing privacy and weather protection for inhabitants. The a

Three steps to containing joy

Three steps to containing joy

Colour, height, and recycling – three key drivers in Sweco Architects' vibrant new Water Sports Centre in Halsskov, Denmark. The project is a demonstration in accessibility; bringing people to the water's edge, utilising an old ferry port, and creating a brand new site for fun to be had. The architects have emphasised the raw character of the new structure's location, both in the selection of new materials and the recycling of existing ones. Concrete piers have been exposed a

Instagram round-up: Climate conscious World Architecture Day

Instagram round-up: Climate conscious World Architecture Day

The whole world is celebrating World Architecture Day – from top museums around the globe, influential design publications, architects, to regular Instagrammers everywhere. This year's theme is #ClimateActionChange, stressing the importance of a cultural shift towards a built environment that caters for future generations as well as our own. To honour the theme, think has selected some of the hottest sustainable projects that have dominated Instagram's feeds. Happy World Arch

Why the Serpentine Pavilion is a mecca for architecture junkies

Why the Serpentine Pavilion is a mecca for architecture junkies

Swiss, French, Chilean, Japanese, Iranian, and this year – for the first time – an African architect was chosen for what is possibly the most prestigious architectural commission in the world. The Serpentine Pavilion series' success has been quite staggering –especially considering that it only began seventeen years ago, and that today everyone who is even mildly interested in architecture is transfixed by every update pertaining to emerging pavilion designs. Some quick facts

IN PICTURES: Diébédo Francis Kéré's 2017 Serpentine Pavilion

IN PICTURES: Diébédo Francis Kéré's 2017 Serpentine Pavilion

This year's Serpentine Pavilion designed by Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has been unveiled in all its blue glory. A light-weight, latticed roof sits atop blue stacked triangles encircling an internal courtyard which becomes a rainfall waterfall when the weather changes. Kéré is the 17th architect to take on the prestigious pavilion commission. A structure is erected annually, in summer, outside the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens, typically desig

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