Mossbridge
An independent archive of spatial design—architecture, interiors, and the materials that hold them together. We publish a small number of long-form stories and prefer the drawing, the specification, and the site visit to the announcement.
Built work, read closely
Architecture writing with its homework shown
Most buildings are explained to the public in one of two registers: the breathless unveiling, or the technical memorandum. Neither is much use to the person trying to understand how a space actually works—what it is made of, what it cost the site, what happens in February, who paid for it, and whether it holds up after a year of occupation.
Mossbridge exists to occupy the space between those two registers. Each story is built around primary material: drawings, planning documents, structural notes, product data, and interviews with the architects, engineers, and craftspeople who made the thing. We describe proportion and material alongside ventilation and embodied carbon, because in the buildings worth writing about these are the same conversation.
The archive is intentionally narrow. We cover a handful of fields deeply rather than a whole industry superficially, and we would rather publish one story we can stand behind than five we cannot.
Three standing sections
Global Residences
Close readings of private houses by architects working across very different climates, budgets, and building cultures—from an Engadin cabin cut into a glacial terrace to a cantilevered house above the Southern Ocean.
02Architecture News
Reporting on competitions, restorations, exhibitions, and completions that shift how the profession works, with the technical and political context that trade coverage tends to leave out.
03Materials Encyclopedia
How buildings are actually made: engineered timber, bio-based composites, low-carbon binders, and the research groups and manufacturers turning laboratory results into specified products.
The four rules we work under
Primary sources first
Every story starts with the documents and the people behind the building—drawings, planning submissions, technical specifications, and direct interviews with the practices. We do not write from press releases alone.
Numbers with their context
Performance claims are quoted with their unit, their boundary, and their source. A U-value or an embodied-carbon figure means little without knowing what was measured and where the calculation stopped.
Editorial is never for sale
Advertising and partnership content is labelled, kept visually distinct, and never folded into reporting. No payment changes what we publish about a project, a material, or a practice.
Corrections in the open
When we get something wrong, the correction is appended to the story with its date rather than silently edited away. Accuracy is a maintenance obligation, not a launch condition.
Contributing editors
Our editors are practitioners and researchers who write about the regions and building cultures they know first-hand. Bylines on this site name the person responsible for the reporting, not an office.
Olivia Hartwell
Residential Editor
Australia and the Pacific
Lena Brügger
Alpine and Northern Europe
Timber construction
Tomás Almeida
Iberia and the Mediterranean
Adaptive reuse
Kaori Yamamoto
Japan and East Asia
Vernacular typologies
Lucas Pereira
Latin America
Material research
Helena Marsh
Heritage and Restoration
Conservation practice
Editorial sections
Stories in the archive
Design tools
Something we should be covering?
Pitches, corrections, and material research leads are all welcome. Tell us about the project and why it matters—we read everything and reply to most of it.