Joann Plockova

In south London, a Victorian house has a new extension clad in black aluminum, with a distinctive three-fold roofline. The work has transformed a cold, dark area that the owners used very little into a bright, open-plan space that is now the hub of the home.

Every Thursday, Henk and Elly Oving take care of their young grandchildren. They don’t have to travel far. They just go downstairs.

Iwan Baan

MONTPELLIER, France — “It looks like a toothbrush. It’s quite strange,” said the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He was speaking about his first project in France, a mixed-use residential tower in Montpellier where, thanks to 300 days of sunshine annually, outdoor living is part of the lifestyle.

BERLIN — In Berlin, the architectural firm Rundzwei recently completed a residential project called the Korkenzieher Haus, or Corkscrew House.

Growing up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Maia Schoenfelder spent her weekends at her maternal grandparents’ home in Usonia, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed planned community in New York’s Westchester County. The house was filled with pieces by her grandfather, furniture designer Mel Smilow...

“Kuchyn is a place where people choose with their eyes first and then their nose,” Marek Janouch said. Mr. Janouch is head chef at the latest Prague venture from Ambiente, the group behind Michelin-starred La Degustation Bohême Bourgeoise ....

From small beginnings in South Beach, Miami, Oppenheim Architecture has become one of the world's most celebrated architecture firms.

When someone says a city is evolving at a feverish pace, it’s often an exaggeration. Not so with Prague.

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When it comes to definitively capturing their projects, the world’s most renowned architects call on Dutch photographer Iwan Baan.

TADEÁŠ PODRACKÝ’S STUDIO IS LOCATED in a hulking eleven-story office building in a suburb of Prague, about twenty-five minutes southwest of the city’s historic center. Once used to produce aircraft instruments, the austere, mustard-colored high-rise is occupied today by artists and various businesses of a creative persuasion. Belowground, a nuclear bunker—a remnant of the Cold War— plays host to occasional parties.

No longer just a city of pubs, Prague is finding its way onto the food map

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An 18th-century Parisian hôtel particulier’s oldest section shares the honorable monument historique designation (given to heritage sites in France) with some of the city’s most iconic sites, including the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, and the Louvre. Now, after four years of restoration, the grand townhouse—originally built by Nicolas d’Orbay in the Parisian high rococo style for Louis XV advisor Etienne Rivié—has been transformed into Hoxton’s latest (and biggest to date) in the city’s buzzing ...

Its architect owners have blended an original 18th-century cottage in a historic workers colony with a modern addition to create their combined home and studio....