Writing about the things people build and the places they build them
Cities
Three architects, one procurement rulebook, and a decade of identical concourses. What the standardisation of rail architecture costs the towns that get a new station and the ones that never will.
Four stories are written in full. The remaining five are sample headlines showing the card layout, and they are deliberately not links.
Design
Three studios explain why the first sketch still happens on paper.
Priya Raman · Sample
Materials
Beetle-killed pine is cheap, plentiful, and structurally excellent.
Tom Aldridge
Cities
Two years of data from a mid-sized European city that tried it.
Marta Nowak
Food
How four cafés built a supply chain that fits in one van.
Elena Ferrer
Interviews
A conversation with the team behind a library that took a decade.
Rowan Ellis · Sample
Design
Acoustic design has finally caught up with the floor plan.
Jonas Weber · Sample
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