Flo Armitage-Hookes | Design in the making

Articles by Flo Armitage-Hookes

Social homes impress with subtle variation and practical design touches

MacFarlane Place salutes Victorian blocks while offering tenant-friendly touches such as heat-regulating shutters

Profile: Nathan Coley, the artist thriving on collaboration and friction

Invited to create public art atop London’s sewer system upgrade, Nathan Coley butted against a rules-based world – but differences have borne fruit

MacEwen Award 2025 commended: Blackpool's Revoe Public Square

The square has been co-conceived, designed and constructed by local residents

The persuaders: How Lake | Flato makes progress

An oblique route achieves the seemingly impossible

Mediæval Calverley cleverly resuscitated

Cowper Griffith Architects preserves and updates with charm and surprise

Delve Architects on the nitty-gritty of working with cork

A house extension by Delve Architects makes the most of cork’s thermal, acoustic and sustainability properties

Second edition: Hastings printworks gets new lease of life

IF_DO has transformed a former newspaper printworks into a community building

The ups and downs of installing a bespoke lift in Big Ben’s clock tower

Contractors overcome heritage needs, a tilt and very tight space

Welcome to Dungeness: Britain's only desert

Revealing photos of life in the shadow of a nuclear power station presented in a striking new book

Peter Mitchell: Leeds’ photographic chronicler

Peter Mitchell has been photographing Leeds since the 1970s when the city was on the cusp of change

‘Piloti’ reflects the fizz of interwar architecture

Gavin Stamp’s ambitious, unfinished, study of UK interwar building design

Leeds South Bank regeneration: river turned asset

Projects and plans for city centre extension along the Aire