Phyllis Richardson

Phyllis is an architecture and design writer based in London. She champions the small and sustainable and has published several books, including the XS series (XS, XS Green, XS Future) and Nano House. In her spare time she ponders the impact of the digital world on the literary.

Mint Street housing development, east London, by Pitman Tozer (Image: Killian O'Sullivan)

Architecture

Living in style 12 meters from a busy railway line

The sculptural concrete wrap (Image: Hertha Hurnaus)

Tiny Houses

Viennese squeeze: CJ5 house offers slim solution to urban density

Architecture

Break it down: Fundamentals of the Venice Architecture Biennale

The bookcase and canopy are the main design elements (Image: Coffey Architects)

Architecture

Coffey Architects win bid to create London’s Science Museum Research Center

Bottles filled with water, detergent and graphene flakes – the graphene absorbs a small amount of ...

Science

Scientists spin up graphene in a kitchen blender

Architecture

Aviator’s villa celebrates air space

The 78m-long (256-ft) sculpture is suspended on four structural columns (Photo: Heathrow Airports Limited)

Architecture

"Slipstream" sculpture simulates flight pattern in re-vamped Heathrow Terminal 2

Open-source beehives can be downloaded and printed using a CNC router (Photo: Open Source Beehives)

Environment

Open-source beehives developed to tackle Colony Collapse Disorder

New skyscrapers in the City of London (Image: Hayes Davidson for NLA)

Architecture

The rise of London's skyline – more than 230 new towers planned

One of the Bochum metro shelters by Despang Architekten (Photo: Olaf Baumann)

Architecture

Phyllis Richardson

Living in style 12 meters from a busy railway line

Viennese squeeze: CJ5 house offers slim solution to urban density

Break it down: Fundamentals of the Venice Architecture Biennale

Coffey Architects win bid to create London’s Science Museum Research Center

Scientists spin up graphene in a kitchen blender

Aviator’s villa celebrates air space

"Slipstream" sculpture simulates flight pattern in re-vamped Heathrow Terminal 2

Open-source beehives developed to tackle Colony Collapse Disorder

The rise of London's skyline – more than 230 new towers planned

"Urban waterfalls" protect metro access, resist truck collisions

The inconvenient truth about the environmental impact of organic farming

Tiny concrete cabin provides off-grid rest and relaxation

Leatherman adds a dash of Damascus steel to its high-end Charge+ TTI multitool

New CRISPR technique could prevent obesity without cutting or editing a genome