Articles by Nat Barker

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“Strong focus on aesthetics” contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge

April 11, 2024 Nat Barker 0

An official report into the collapse of a 10-year-old mass-timber bridge in Norway in August 2022 has criticised the structure’s design and construction. Two drivers had to be rescued after the Tretten Bridge, over the Gudbrandsdalslågen river in the Øyer area of southern Norway, gave way as a heavy goods vehicle was crossing. Completed in

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The “miracle” of Taiwan’s luxury social housing

April 4, 2024 Nat Barker 0

From a standing start, Taiwan has embarked on one of the world’s most ambitious social-housing programmes. Dezeen finds out more as part of our Social Housing Revival series. Having only become government policy in 2016, Taiwan expects to have amassed a social-housing stock of 200,000 units by the end of 2024 – and has already

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“I struggle to keep my flame of hope alive” says Kate Macintosh

March 25, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Architect Kate Macintosh is known for designing council housing, but in this Social Housing Revival interview she argues that a better way to address the UK’s housing-affordability crisis would be a tax on land values. Retired Scottish architect Macintosh is celebrated for her work on publicly owned buildings, particularly two 1970s social-housing schemes in south

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Children in social housing “sleeping on a blanket on a concrete floor”

March 21, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Increasing numbers of people in social housing are living in inhospitable conditions because they are unable to afford even basic furniture and flooring, Dezeen reports as part of our Social Housing Revival series. In the UK, social-rented homes are usually handed over to new residents in a sparse state – lacking basic elements of decoration

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Social housing is America’s “missing tool” to solve housing crisis says Alex Lee

March 20, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Public housing is an essential part of the solution to the housing crisis in the US, California politician Alex Lee tells Dezeen in this interview conducted as part of our Social Housing Revival series. California State Assembly member Lee is one of a small number of voices leading calls for a new social-housing programme to

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Eight home interiors where full-length curtains add a touch of drama

March 16, 2024 Nat Barker 0

From a glitzy Parisian apartment to a converted garage in Buffalo, New York, our latest lookbook collects eight residential interiors where floor-to-ceiling curtains inject a theatrical feel. Curtains aren’t just for covering windows. A set of statement drapes can be an easy way to significantly change the mood of a room, particularly in apartment renovations.

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“I really hate the word ‘social’ housing” says Annalie Riches

March 8, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Architects are often wrongly blamed for past failures in social housing, Mikhail Riches co-founder Annalie Riches says in this Social Housing Revival interview. Riches set out in her career to design great social housing, in a bid to challenge what she saw as a prevailing notion that architects “can’t do housing”. However, she confesses to

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