Author Archives: Isabel Allen

Rural Somersetʼs bucolic idyll is the unexpected setting for a new gallery of contemporary art that perceptively unites buildings, works and landscape

New neighbourhoods should be socially, as well as physically, constructed. Isabel Allen argues that the eccentricity and evangelism of determined visionaries trumps public sector policy every time

Fusing utopian ideal and economic reality, the reinterpretation of three traditional housing types by Zanderroth Architekten creates spatially rich dwellings for residents and a new urban model for Berlin

David Chipperfield describes the Hepworth Wakefield as ‘dipping its toes in the water’. Photography by Paul Raftery