Back in October, I went on a very enjoyable and interesting trip to Hastings to see the house extension designed by Hugh Strange which had been short-listed for the Stirling Prize. It did not win (nor did it win the RIBA House of the Year), but I still thought it was impressively thoughtful, representing some of the current tendencies in architecture involving small-scale interventions as much as grand statements.

I wrote about it for the December/January issue of The Critic and the piece has just been posted online:-

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/december-january-2026/recognition-that-small-is-beautiful/