Vanessa Norwood sat down with Hortus Collective Directors Amy Langron and Mark Rogers to talk about all things landscape, from materials reuse, the importance of creating biodiverse small spaces and the architect who was happy with flowers of any colour - except yellow!

A Victorian terrace in Birmingham becomes a living laboratory of ecological retrofit and community co-creation.

There is a saying in Portugal, that ‘whoever cares about their grandchildren plants a cork oak’. The proverb is a clock.

Groupwork’s latest project, now rising on Finchley Road, extends the practice’s investigation into structural masonry at an unprecedented scale. The mixed-use residential building comprises three buildings that form a complete stone skeleton of over 400 Larvikite beams and columns.

The interior design industry utilises many more materials and processes than the fashion industry, yet much less is known about it. We mine and extract products from finite materials, process products at high temperatures and use large amounts of water and toxic chemicals.