What do you envisage when you hear 'breeze block'? For me, it's always had connotations of ugly, oversized bricks in the most depressing gray color you can imagine. However, in interior design right ...

Writer and interior designer Sarah Stewart-Smith renovated a 1960s breeze-block workshop in the garden of her crofter’s cottage to make a stunning studio space. She lives near Hereford with her ...

Cinder blocks are everywhere. You see them on the exteriors of homes and commercial buildings, as barriers for landscapes, even on the side of the freeway as a security wall. But arguably the best ...

Before the proliferation of air conditioning, designers devised lots of clever ways to keep buildings cool: cupolas, external blinds and awnings, transom windows. But none were as useful and ...