• Hempcrete home: Flat House by Practice Architecture and Material Cultures

    31 March 2020

    On a Cambridgeshire farm, a new home is made from the crop grown on the land around it. But this hempcrete house is part of an ambitious wider project exploring how natural materials can be used at scale in construction

  • This is Temporary: Transient Architecture

    9 February 2016

    Temporary architecture has been appearing and disappearing more and more in urban public spaces. Many such structures have been branded ‘pop-ups’, follies to provide a moment of light entertainment and camera-ready delight. But there is a long history of a more holistic type of temporary architecture that subtly suggests how we could live, work and play more harmoniously. Here we feature an extract from Cate St Hill’s new book, published by the RIBA, including interviews with 13 exciting, young, socially minded architects, designers and multidisciplinary collectives, making and building their own way.