Editor's Dispatch
Workshops: Build a Bookshelf in a Day
Notes and cut-lists from our first public build.
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Editor's Dispatch
Workshops: The Lime Plaster Weekend
Twenty hands, three walls, one very old recipe.
Interiors
The Courtyard Question: Why Our Oldest Room Still Works
Four walls open to the sky — the subcontinent’s oldest climate machine is also its most social room.
Architecture
Brick by Brick: The Kilns of the Punjab Plain
A material history of the plain, told through the chimneys that fired it.
Interiors
A Kitchen That Cooks: The Case Against the Showpiece
The best kitchens are workrooms first — everything else is set dressing.
Editor's Dispatch
Objects of Permanence: Notes on Buying Less, Better
A short argument for the ten-year purchase.
Architecture
The Verandah Papers: Shade as Architecture
Before air-conditioning there was orientation, depth and a roof that knew the sun.
Editor's Dispatch
Studio Visit: The Weavers of Harappa Road
Three looms, two sisters and a hundred metres of cotton — a morning with the makers.