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O’DonnellBrown: rising Glasgow firm collaborates to punch above its weight

A community-minded ethos and outward focus have helped the practice wield outsized influence

IDK: balancing big-hitting cultural projects and grassroots work

The practice's work spans from the V&A's David Bowie Centre to working with communities in London and Devon

Artefact: practice widens its scope after impressing with home extensions

Emerging during the pandemic, the practice has purposefully focused on the craft of construction

Studio Saar: architects without borders

From Somerset to Rajasthan, ‘global, hyperlocal’ is how distinctive practice Studio Saar operates

Profile: Nathan Coley, the artist thriving on collaboration and friction

Invited to create public art atop London’s sewer system upgrade, Nathan Coley butted against a rules-based world – but differences have borne fruit

Hermit's Castle, Achmelvich: a 'Brutalist bothy' that has entered local lore

David Scott's remote 1950s West Highland folly tempted photographer Andy Stagg into a long journey north.

Wire curtains across rural Shropshire

Rachel Ferriman's photograph of Woofferton’s Curtain Array, a 1940s BBC transmission station

Quayola: the artist disappearing into three dimensions

Rome-based artist Quayola has been challenging CNC machines to do ‘crazy things’ as he reinterprets Michelangelo’s sculptures

RIBA Royal Gold Medallist 2025: SANAA

Practice founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa talk about their work over the past 30 years

The persuaders: How Lake | Flato makes progress

An oblique route achieves the seemingly impossible

Sumaya Dabbagh: making and made by her context

We can nurture our identity in a connected world, says the Saudi architect

Casa Sperimentale: a very concrete remnant of bohemian life

French+Tye photograph Giuseppe Perugini's and Uga de Plaisant's ‘conceptual treehouse’

Liam Young: ‘Making buildings is just one thing that architects do’

Why architects should use their diverse skills for the good of the whole planet

Profile: Joanna Bacon brings it home

Allies and Morrison’s managing partner speaks about large-scale projects and the design of a practice

Observers observed in Greg Holmes' photo of Ando's open-air gallery

Greg Holmes puts Tadao Ando’s modernist Garden of Fine Arts in Kyoto through a postmodern lens

Photograph: Primary moves in a 360-degree view of life

Nick Caville's affirmative view of BDP’s Francis Holland School in London

Profile: Alex Thomas on a rare career path and the joy of making with wood

The founder of Timber Workshop on speed, noise, and the screen

Kathryn Gustafson: I don’t know how I’ll ever retire

Why the landscape architect says ‘the sky is mine’

Profile: Mario Cucinella reveals what he learnt on his travels

‘We must take care of people’: the architect who learns from nature to serve society

Condemned flats look like ghosts of more hopeful times

Chris Leslie can see the Balkans from Glasgow’s Red Road flats

Minsuk Cho: touching the void

2024 Serpentine Pavilion designer Minsuk Cho’s influences, ambitions and outlook

Clue to the garden is in the name at Prospect Cottage

The window is the secret for the view, discovered photographer Gilbert McCarragher

How timber helped SUMA step up to the top

Interview with the Spanish architect of Gabriel García Márquez Library

Pierre d’Avoine: ‘Working creatively with others can be an almost ecstatic experience’

The architect looks back on the satisfactions and frustrations of 50 years in practice

An entrepreneurial approach helped LIND Studio out of the starting blocks

Canny collaboration saw Emma Lindblom hit the ground running

One to watch: Ann Nisbet Studio keeps rural life at the centre of design

Crafted homes draw on rural typologies

Citizens Design Bureau’s mission to make life better

A zest for life – everyone’s – drives work at Katy Marks’ practice

Underground movement: Martina Ferrera’s photograph Immersed, 2021

Photographer digs deep to reflect her fascination with subterranean worlds

Architect Edit on the need for a rewrite

Why gender equality needs fundamental social and economic change

Behind the facade: the films of Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine

Warm, frank investigations of the human experience

Dr Sumayah Al-Solaiman, thought leader and shaper of Saudi Arabian design

The most influential figure in architecture in Saudi Arabia, CEO of the Architectural Design Commission

Time, space and shape: Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, Snowdonia

Simon Phipps preserves Wales’ disappearing modernism through photography

‘The house was very important’: Patty Hopkins looks back

Luck, confident clients, amazing partners and the joy of doing practical things

Photograph: Hopeful prospects for a sun-baked youth

Collège Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Niamey, Niger, photographed by Toby Pear

Jan Kattein, who brings flexibility, circularity and colour into regeneration

Social architecture specialist ‘leaves room to let stuff happen’

Lesley Lokko: Culture revolutionary and Royal Gold Medallist

Pioneer of critical debate about cultural identity in architecture