The five winners of the UK Passivhaus Awards have been announced, revealing projects that exemplify the best in Passivhaus design and construction, meeting the gold standard of energy efficiency, comfort, and sustainability. Chosen from an impressive shortlist, the winning projects…
Exploring construction and architecture in the age of climate crisis, the new showcase How to Build a Low-Carbon Home at the Design Museum in London explores three ancient materials that are vital for our future. This new display takes a…
Bindloss Dawes has remodelled a Chelsea mews house, breathing life into the once dark and dated space with a full-height lightwell and feature staircase, which maximises the space and creates a sense of volume. The small terraced house, set across…
Welcome to Enki’s Eco Edit: July 2023, our monthly sustainable lifestyle news series which includes a round-up of the best eco-friendly brands, shopping ideas, things to see and do, and places to visit. This month, we take a look at…
Using innovative appliances and sleek handleless cabinetry, Simon Taylor Furniture has designed a highly functional and timeless kitchen for a modern rear extension on a 1930s house. The spacious, open-plan space incorporates a large family room with living and dining…
Mecanoo and Meng Architects, in collaboration with LOLA Landscape Architects, have won an international design competition with their sustainability first proposal for the Shenzhen Guangming Scientist Valley. Featuring a series of intersecting linear wood structures, the proposal titled Scientific Forest…
A series of ground-floor alterations, involving a hallway to establish a sense of arrival, have allowed OWA to work with scale and orientation for the revival of a 1960s modernist house. Set within a small cul-de-sac in London Highgate’s conservation…
After eight years of living in New York, interior design studio founder Sheena Murphy and her family returned to London, fell in love with a post-war property, and worked with Sustainable Kitchens to bring her love of pared-back modernism into…
Architecture practice Studio Mutt and developer Neighbourhood have won the 2023 Davidson Prize with Helping Hands, a design concept to support young homeless people in Liverpool. In response to the Davidson Prize’s 2023 theme of ‘Somewhere to Call Home’, Helping…
Designed by research-based design studio Formafantasma, the Garden Futures exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany explores how ecological, historical, political, and social factors have shaped our gardens. The ‘Garden Futures: Designing with Nature’ exhibition investigates the history and…
A visionary design language based on geometric shapes and expressive materials defines the new Mondial kitchen range by SieMatic. This contemporary kitchen lifestyle concept, first showcased at international design fair Salone del Mobile 2022 in Milan, and has now been…
Architects Juan Ruiz and Amelia Tapia have designed IWI, a modular living solution that compresses and expands to adapt to users’ lifestyles and needs. The architecture duo used CNC milling (Computer Numerical Controlled technology) to build the wood structure, which…
Henning Larsen has won an international urban competition to create new Berlin destination Ku’lturhof, a mixed-use district which will provide a framework for city dwellers to come together and connect. Set in the German capital, the soon-to-be neighbourhood will act…
ConForm Architects has transformed a terraced house in North London with a monolithic marble-clad extension, giving a nod to Greek architecture. Achilles House in Hampstead now has a renewed connection between its ground floor plan and the south-east facing garden,…
Bringing out the beauty of original period features, interior designer Sally Conran has designed a rustic interior with an industrial-style edge for organic wine bar Wilding in Oxford. With a desire to go back to the bare bones of the…
