Chapel House by Carlos Garmendia

Cathy and Michael Keane bought their house when it was being used as a cowshed. They converted it, had four children and over the years Dad, Michael, has added on bits to it. The extension behind the original cottage took eight years to complete. Now the house is a warren of disconnected small ro...

Designed around a 60 year old Pepper Tree, The aptly named Pepper Tree Passive House was designed and built to International Passive House standards by architect Alexander Symes and owner builder Adam Souter and makes use of salvaged and waste materials throughout.

Leaving an urban life to settle in the countryside... Where Mother Nature rules, far from everybody, almost isolated... Many people dream of this, but few take the plunge.
It is this challenge that appealed to Nick Middleton and his wife Kate when they decided to leave the centre of England to m...

Recently, the Jordaan district in Amsterdam has become notable for its adaptive reuse of buildings. As the neighbourhood has gone through various phases of transformation, many of the old warehouses and industrial buildings have been repurposed into residential spaces, galleries, boutiques, and r...

Parabeton starts with the first still existing dome built of concrete by the Romans in the 1st century BC in Baiae near Naples. Followed in chronological sequence by 17 buildings of Italian civil-engineer Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) – inventor, grandmaster of concrete structures and the architec...

8 architects, 8 houses, 8 stories, 8 paradigms of contemporary living. The diary of an exploration into the houses and private spaces of 8 protagonists of world architecture: Shigeru Ban, Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Marcio Kogan, Daniel Libeskin...

"Koloni" originated from the coming together of a designer and the owner of a retro object shop.

How to choose a hotel in Paris, today? Be tempted by the Mandarin Oriental, a 5-star Parisian hotel.

Behind every facade lies a battle of wills... the struggle for the supremacy of ideas. Modern Australian architecture has been buffeted by waves of ideology. From the modernist ideas of Europe through the eccentricity of post modernism to the local influence of climate and place. In this first ep...

James Stirling takes us from Germany, to London, to Boston, guiding us through three of his widely famed museums. Though the buildings designed and created by the established architect contain some of the world’s most notable works of art, Stirling reminds us that architecture serves as its ver...

We are all about the luxury master: what does Karl Lagerfeld love? Nothing but his favorites! And the rest is out. Here's also Virginia Viard's hippie chic home.

Gonzalo Pardo and the team at gon architects were tasked with redesigning a small one bedroom apartment in one of the busiest squares in Madrid. The apartment, which was originally built in 1910 and renovated in 2003, was in need of an update to make it more suitable for a young Italian woman and...

For Robert Barnes the sketch is a tool for communication - be it with a student, a client or even a group of Indian kids.

In this episode, discover how sketching can be a way into different cultures and styles and the surprising benefit of the ability to draw upside down.

For 5 years, Emmanuel Renoird has been restoring The House: a French take on futuristic mid-century American architecture.

Hidden in the middle of a forest in the Perche region of France, The House was built between 1973 and 1976 and features in episode 14 of Design Touch, Season 2.

David Connor is a British interior and architectural designer who became known in the early 1980s for his unique and unconventional designs. He has influenced young designers with his unique way of visualizing ideas through his drawings.

David has worked with notable clients such as Vivienne Wes...

It is in the hustle and bustle of the streets in the center of São Paulo that designer Paulo Alves feels at ease, there are his store and his home. However, his design pieces with cheerful shapes, like the Atibaia chair, carry the DNA of a boy who climbed trees and sucked mangoes in the countrysi...

A film describing the development of International Style corporate architecture in the city of Melbourne, Australia. Spanning the period 1950-1980, the film charts the rise of the glass box, curtained walled office building and explores subsequent local developments of the the genre.

Most people think of nature parks as eco-systems uninhabited by humans--spaces reserved for wildlife, fossils, and plants. “Inhabited” shows us that people live there too. Through an in-depth exploration of all ten of Canada’s UNESCO World Natural Heritage sites, a filmmaking family introduces us...

Adolf Loos was one of the pioneers of European Modernist architecture. His vehement turn against ornamentation on buildings triggered a controversy in architectural theory. The development of his “spatial plan” launched a new way of thinking about spaces to be built. His houses, furniture for sho...

Julia Ashwood and her husband Matt Rabbidge were courting patrons of the Eltham Hotel before they became owners. They adored the historic village of Eltham, nestled in the hinterland and removed from the bustle of Byron Bay. When Julia suddenly became the proud new co-owner of The Eltham Hotel in...