The world

Carmody Groarke’s Hill House Box has been completed in Helensburgh, west of Glasgow.

Some of the UK’s biggest and best-known architecture firms have declared a “climate and biodiversity emergency” and pledged to strengthen working practices to help tackle it.

On the final leg of the 2019 Dulux Study Tour, the group visits Lisbon, a vibrant, bright and textured city with a history of adversity.

In London, the 2019 Dulux Study Tour group found a city in constant pursuit of its next achievement, where the drive for excellence and innovation is motivating practices across the city to pursue niche passions.

Executive director of Aerial Futures, Andrés Ramirez, ponders the significance of the airport typology.

On the first leg of the 2019 Dulux Study Tour, the group found a city willing to embrace openness and experimentation for the public good as it undergoes major urban redevelopment.

Architectural organizations in France and abroad have mourned the loss of an architectural and historic landmark and pledged support for a rebuild.

Carmody Groarke, the London architecture practice founded by Australian architect Kevin Carmody together with Andy Groarke, has designed a new museum in north-west England.

Forensic Architecture has released a statement in support of arrested Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Bill McKay discovers the historic huts left behind from previous Antarctic explorers’ efforts to reach the South Pole.

Marnie Morieson visits some of São Paulo’s best-known examples of radical brutalism and ruminates on the role architecture can play in fostering a fairer, more equal society.

In this postcard from San Francisco, Sydney architect Virginia Waller reflects on the “heroic modernism” of the city’s striking cathedral, the towering Transamerica pyramid and a famous gift store designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The owner of a Richard Neutra-designed house in San Fransisco, which was illegally demolished, has been ordered to reconstruct an exact replica.

New York-founded architecture firm Open has designed a contemporary art museum that is carved into a dune along a beach in Qinhuangdao, north-eastern China.

Dutch and Brazilian practice Kaan Architecture has designed a crematorium in Belgium intended to comfort and soothe.

A newly elected governing alliance for the Swedish capital has signed an agreement to drop plans for an Apple retail outlet at a prominent park in central Stockholm.

In the design and fashion capital of Italy, the participants of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 Dulux Study Tour found Milan is a city that embraces the idea of “style” and how it shapes architecture.

On the Berlin leg of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2018 Dulux Study Tour, the group visited a number of projects that demonstrated how architecture could be used as a tool for social change.

The winners of the 2018 Dulux Study Tour visited a number of world renowned architectural practices in London and got an inside look at what drives their culture.

In this postcard from Nepal, architect Virginia Waller reflects on the relationship between the country’s alpine architecture and its remarkable natural setting.

Architectural historian Bill McKay and photographer Jason Mann investigate the long-neglected architecture of the South Pacific.

MVRDV’s Winy Maas has led the creation of a program of architectural interventions and events across the Dutch city of Eindhoven as part of Dutch Design Week.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s latest project includes large-scale, site-specific sculptures intended to draw attention to borders, xenophobia and the plight of refugees.

Visits to two iconic utopian housing schemes – Walden 7 in Barcelona and the Barbican in London – prompted the 2017 Dulux Study Tour group to question the role architecture plays in forging communities and how this has changed over time.

The 2017 Dulux Study Tour group discovers how Prague’s history has been recorded in its architecture, creating a layering of distinct styles and movements.

Is MVRDV’s“sky garden” Seoul’s answer to New York’s High Line or a “giant marketing stunt” derived from a process of “shape throwing”? Landscape Australia editor Ricky Ray Ricardo paid a visit.

In London for the second leg of the 2017 Dulux Study Tour, the group find themselves searching for “authentic moments of connection where [they] could feel the human scale.”

The 2017 Dulux Study Tour group explores how a 19th century city plan has influenced Barcelona’s contemporary architecture.

Exploring the natural and cultural landscapes along one of Nepal’s most popular hiking trails.

Jillian Walliss visits Philadelphia’s 1,200-acre urban development that is committed to smart energy innovation and sustainability.

Michael Wright and Catherine Rush visit a spectacular high-altitude, dry-climate garden in the south-west of the USA.

Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright visited Christo and Jeanne-Claude latest work that stretched across Italy’s picturesque Lake Iseo for two weeks in June 2016.

How can an understanding of the strong social connections forged in informal slum settlements shape future architectural interventions? Abel Feleke reports from Rio de Janeiro.

The Dulux Study Tour visits the Bagsvaerd Church in Copenhagen –Jørn Utzon’s first commission on his return to Denmark, having withdrawn from his work on the Sydney Opera House.

The 2016 Dulux Study Tour group visits Madrid on the last leg of the trip, exploring the city’s many decorated facades and how they contribute to the vibrancy of its spaces.

From the Cheesegrater to the Scalpel, the built legacy of London’s planning restrictions is plain to see. On the second stop of the 2016 Dulux Study Tour, the group explores the friction between the city’s commercial and cultural objectives.

In Copenhagen, a city often saluted for its urban planning successes, the Dulux Study Tour team finds the city is grappling with complex challenges in the development of new urban precincts.

The ‘incremental’ approach to delivering affordable housing works in South America. Would it work in Australia?

Parckfarm is an interactive project in Brussels, Belgium that invites visitors to explore new park typologies through art installations, agricultural performances, workshops and community gardens.

A visit to Medellín, to explore how architecture is helping to change what was once one of the world’s most violent cities.