Architecture and place
Projects, studios, cities, landscapes, heritage, housing, climate, and public life.
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Built Life Journal
Buildings from idea to everyday life
Understand how good places are made.
Independent stories and practical guides across architecture, interiors, construction, material, landscape, cost, maintenance, and the life after handover.
Editorial desks
Design ambition, technical reality, lived result.
Coverage that connects the image of a project with the decisions and work behind it.
Making and material
Construction systems, craft, procurement, detailing, performance, repair, and material origins.
Home in practice
Renovation, cost, interiors, maintenance, energy, gardens, and informed client decisions.
How we report
A finished photograph is the start of the questions.
We speak with clients, designers, builders, makers, and users to understand trade-offs and performance over time.
Current dossier
What a square metre really costs.
Designers, quantity surveyors, builders, and homeowners unpack scope, value, risk, and the numbers behind build decisions.
Recently published
New stories of design, construction, and life.
Projects, material studies, interviews, field reports, and useful guides for making better places.
Project Stories will appear here as soon as they are published.
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Built Life gives equal respect to design intent and construction reality. That makes it genuinely useful.
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One excellent project story every Sunday.
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