Jan-Carlos Kucharek

There’s a spiritual sort of philosophy about Studio Circle Growth’s house Casa de Mi Luna, which adopts local style, sustainable materials – and fun

Warsaw’s Projekt Praga brings in specialist joiners,light artists, ceramicists and metalworkers to restore 16th century Tenczynek Brewery as modern Taproom bar and restaurant

Readers were intrigued by stories showing developers are taking the retrofit high ground and social housing turning to Passivhaus principles. And what do white LEDs have to do with staving off ageing?

Vocation, enabled by skills and experience, drove Toby Pear to NGO Article 25, and work in ‘one of the most beautiful countries’, Niger

Formative years in a developing Milton Keynes gave Simon Phipps an awareness of forms in space and time, summed up in his photograph of Trawsfynydd nuclear power station

Huge, anonymised Cloud-based datasets could transform not just architecture but the role of architects: Jan-Carlos Kucharek reports from the the Autodesk University annual conference

The photographer developed a love of the subterranean when living and working in Toronto – is that what prompted her to send us her shot of AHMM’s basement office?

Green facades, environmental materials and modern architecture as viewed through windows: three fascinating books packed with valuable information

A photograph of the Garden of Fine Arts in Kyoto, Japan, puts Tadao Ando’s modernism through a postmodern lens

There’s a distinct theme of preservation in this selection of must-reads, looking at historic materials, restoration and retrofitting, and why we should design out hazardous materials