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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

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

RIBA Royal Gold Medallist 2023: Yasmeen Lari

Royal Gold Medal recognises her work in heritage, homelessness and skill transfer in Pakistan

The Zabbaleen: what Cairo’s Garbage City could teach the West

Hammad Haider’s photograph reveals how 80% of the city’s waste is profitably recycled

James Gorst: I feel successful creatively, and that’s the key thing

Excitement, dreams, disappointment and personal integrity

Fixing the system: inside the mind of Indy Johar

Why everything from mortgages to planetary health is entwined

Arthur Timothy: how a hobby turned an architect into an artist

Christmas present was a blank canvas in more ways than one

Interview with Nikola Olic: liberating architectural photography

Abstract but identifiable photographs balance reality and imagination

Rising Star: Hamza Shaikh

Architect, podcast host, artist and influencer, exploring experimental architectural drawing

Art from work in progress: photograph by Francisco Ibáñez

Unsustainable Structures 7, Mayfair, London 2018

Value added: why sustainability drives Seaforth Land’s Tyler Goodwin

Why the developer prefers refit and upcycling to demolish and rebuild

Photograph: Modernist market upholds municipal dignity

Stefania Miravalle captures a sense of calm and durability in Turin's graceful arches

Muyiwa Oki: Rebel with a cause

Appeal rather than attack is the way to bring change

Ben van Berkel: 'Sometimes the breakthrough isn't a building, but a way of working'

UNStudio founder decided to be an architect 'on the spot' on seeing the Katsura Imperial Villa in Japan aged 21

Michael Collins’ own piece of industrial archaeology

Beckton Gasworks pillars No 2, London, by Michael Collins

How a garage, a carpet and living on a bus helped shape Eric Parry

Unexpected details show a different route to success

Asif Khan's world of wonder

A love of experimentation and making lie behind buzzing creativity and burgeoning success

Serpentine Pavilion designer Lina Ghotmeh on her life, work and influences

The Paris-based architect reveals her journey to Hyde Park’s pavilion

‘No-one questions confidence’: Janie Airey meets Zaha's aquatics centre

Janie Airey on how her camera makes her feel invulnerable

Profile: Gillian Tindall, novelist turned urban miniaturist historian

Books on history and context have affected the way architects work for 50 years

It’s behind you! Extra-terrestrial sensations in Nine Elms

Urban Beings V, London, photographed by Francesco Russo

Future winners: Unknown Works is out there – in every way

Energy and adventurousness are key to international success