I wanted a tiny house – and a big life. Could I have it all in 25 square metres?
At 50, home ownership was out of reach for Louise Southerden. When she decided to build a tiny house on tyres, it promised liberation from Australia’s rental hamster wheel
A renovated Queenslander with a home office in a former laundry wins Houses awards top prize
A revamped Brisbane worker’s cottage measuring less than 200 sq metres has been capped the best new home in the country
Labour’s ‘grey belt’ plans could result in isolated communities, warns leading architect
Botched Spanish church makeover leaves cherubim looking startled
The new town I grew up in radically improved life for my family. Labour is right to champion them
George Clarke
July 2024
The City of London’s tallest skyscraper could look like a toilet seat in the sky – and that’s not even the worst thing about it
Oliver Wainwright
Britain’s best new building: can a tiny dairy farm beat the epic Elizabeth line?
Country diary
Country diary: Mending the last thatched roof in the village
‘Welcome to Wrexham!’ Is my old hometown about to become a hothouse of culture?
Who’s on the 2024 RA Dorfman prize shortlist? A lingerie factory turned weekend home, Ukrainian volunteer roofers – and more
Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new lives
Rowan Moore
Faded no more: the return of British seaside resorts’ grand hotels
Up on the roof: the homespun art of rural Punjab – in pictures
Paris’s department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today’s struggling shops?
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Staffordshire review – the final word on the nation’s finest buildings
Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum review – it’s a wondrous jungle out there
‘It is our destiny’: Meet the people who rebuilt Notre Dame
Putting design first: six social housing projects from around the world
Canary Wharf Group to carve chunks out of HSBC tower after bank leaves
‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden
