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Five architectural projects in Oxfordshire have been awarded RIBA South Awards, including the Library and Study Centre at St John’s College in…

Five architectural projects in Oxfordshire have been awarded RIBA South Awards, including the Library and Study Centre at St John’s College in…

Words by Francesca Perry Home. It’s become even more critical, and interrogated, since the lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic confined many of us to domestic interiors. Issues of culture, lifestyle, inequality and health all weave into the consideration and exploration of what a home is and can be, across history and around the world. It is this stark relevance and importance that underpins the revival of London’s Geffrye Museum as the Museum of the Home, opening on Saturday 12 June, now with 80% more exhibition space so it can interrogate these issues more thoroughly – and immersi...

After an £18.1m makeover courtesy of Wright & Wright Architects, the 18th-century almshouses that formerly housed the Geffrye Museum are reopening on 12 June under a new name. There is now 80 per cent more space for the museum’s collection of domestic fixtures and fittings through the ages. The temporary exhibition programme kicks off with the artist Polly Braden’s show ‘Holding the Baby’, which features photographic portraits of and interviews with single-parent households. Find out more from the Museum of the Home’s website.

The project sees the museum’s 300-year-old complex of almshouses and gardens consolidated with contemporary additions to create a more efficient and