Cities
Why every new station looks the same
Three architects, one procurement rulebook, and a decade of identical concourses.
Rowan Ellis ·
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Cities
What happens when a city stops building car parks
Two years of data from a mid-sized European city that tried it.
Marta Nowak ·
Cities
The case for putting the buses back on the high street
Three towns moved their interchange out of the centre. Two regret it.
Priya Raman · · Sample
Design
Open-plan offices are back, and they are quieter this time
Acoustic design has finally caught up with the floor plan.
Jonas Weber · · Sample
Design
Drawing by hand in an office that runs on CAD
Three studios explain why the first sketch still happens on paper.
Priya Raman · · Sample
Materials
The case for building with wood that nobody wanted
Beetle-killed pine is cheap, plentiful, and structurally excellent.
Tom Aldridge ·
Cities
The last mile problem nobody wants to fund
A station is only useful if you can walk to it. Most new ones fail that test.
Marta Nowak · · Sample
Interviews
“We spent two years on the door handle”
A conversation with the team behind a library that took a decade.
Rowan Ellis · · Sample
Food
The small roasters buying coffee by the sack, not the pallet
How four cafés built a supply chain that fits in one van.
Elena Ferrer ·
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