The Margin Magazine

Cover story

The quiet return of the courtyard house

Across southern Europe, architects are turning houses inward again. Ines Albuquerque visits six homes built around a patch of sky.

Ines Albuquerque12 min read

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Architecture
Concrete, softened: five buildings from the autumn shortlist
Board-marked walls, planted roofs and a library that lets the weather in. Our critic walks the year’s most humane buildings.
Duarte Pires14 min read
Design
Why every new chair looks like it came from 1962
Lotte Verbeek8 min read
Objects
An arc lamp, three owners, and the case for repairable things
Samir Haddad9 min read
Culture
Inside the print shop keeping risograph alive in Leeds
Two printers, one drum machine and a waiting list that runs to March.
Yuki TanabeListen, 31 min
Design
The typeface on the new Oslo metro maps, explained
Maren Holt5 min read
Cities
Lisbon’s tram network gets a patient redesign
Duarte Pires7 min read
Culture
What museums owe the people who guard them
Kwame AsanteListen, 24 min
Cities
The street-level rules that made Rotterdam walkable again
Wider kerbs, slower corners and benches every sixty metres. A city engineer explains.
Lotte Verbeek11 min read

Unbuilt, every other Tuesday

The best building in my city is the one we decided not to knock down.

Second Hand, weekly

Good design used to mean it lasted. Now it mostly means it photographs well.

Small Type, monthly

A sign that needs a paragraph of explanation has already failed.