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...

Americans Mickey and Lanie Clark have built a remarkable bushland home after a two year work trip turned into a 20 year love affair with the Australian landscape.

In the final programme of the series, architectural designer Charlie Luxton heads to the richly varied mercantile coast of North West England – stretching approximately 60 miles along the Wirral Peninsula and up past Liverpool, it’s a place that’s steeped in maritime history and rich in architect...

John Rochford from Dublin and Lee Benn, originally from Limerick, have bought a house in their dream location - South Dublin's seaside suburbia, Blackrock. Although the location is perfect, it will take a serious amount of work before the couple's new home becomes anything idyllic.

A very brave owner takes her home from the 1800s to the 21st century.

City of Culture of Glacia - Santiago de Compostela, Spain by Peter Eisenman Architects. The architect Peter Eisenman created a landscape made of buildings in the Spanish Pilger town Santiago de Compostela.

What is the tip to make flowers even more beautiful? The essential question is: Do we have to buy plants? Loulou de la Falaise passed away but she has left us her style as a legacy.

A guided tour for landlubbers, today we're going on board a yacht.

The Arvor and Mayet are two small, unpretentious and very successful Parisian hotels.

Do More With Less shows how young Latin American architects are bringing about a change in practice by offering a new understanding of the way the profession interacts with society. Rethinking the use of materials, academia, and the power of community and team work.

Yardstix takes advantage of underutilised space to bring functional architecture to backyards. Drawing character from the Queensland radiata pine, and framing the necessities within the walls themselves, Nicholas Gurney's 20m2 secondary dwellings provide green, economic, self-contained living spa...

Architect Dermot Bannon faces a tough challenge in meeting the design brief and budgetary restraints for the Zambra family who are building an extension in Castleknock.

So far in the series we have seen the ground floors of two homes completely redesigned. This is the first programme with a bui...

The various respiratory metabolisms of man during sports performance is an inspiration to design hybrid car engines that emit less CO2.

Centrally located in Buenos Aires the 25sqm El Camarín occupies a triangular space in a 1950’s building previously left empty due to its small size. A unique scalloped balcony screen allowed iR architecture to incorporate the balcony into an expanded living area. The bedroom was relocated and sep...

Judaism visits one of the earliest synagogues on the mountain fort of Masada, the Gothic Old-New Synagogue in Prague and nineteenth-century houses of worship in Budapest, Liverpool and New York, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, Beth Sholom, near Philadelphia.

Life Architecturally follows internationally-acclaimed husband and wife team, Robert McBride and Debbie Ryan to discover what inspires their groundbreaking concepts, designs and architecture.

Iconic Homes - Iconic - Perspectives
The Garcia House by John Lautner

In an examination of Modernism, Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects studies seven innovative minds who fuse Japanese traditions with modern materials and technology. Bonded by a belief in architectural savagery and brute minimalism, Itsuko Hasegawa, Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Tadao Ando,...

A minimalist apartment on the River Rio. Decorated by Frenchman Jean-Luc Boucharenc. Teatime in sweet little places, unpretentious but deliciously cosy.