June and Phil Bell’s inviting period home — complete with an Aga, plump sofas and numerous happy family photographs — looks much like any other in this leafy part of Surrey. However, this unlikely ...

A Spanish design firm has created a prototype of a house where home appliances and computers can be controlled simply though hand gestures. The project's creator, Ion Cuervas-Mons, explains how ...

Jan Benthem may be one of the Netherlands’ most successful architects, yet when it comes to his own home, he likes to live modestly. Or ‘efficiently’ as he would have it. So while his classic cars ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Michael and Patty Hopkins, who designed one of the movement's most pragmatic buildings – Hopkins House – and went on to develop ...

Few properties come onto the market that can ever claim to be truly flawless. But a clifftop house with its own private beach comes pretty close scoring a perfect 10. Even its selling agents can ...

The high-tech house designed by architects Michael and Patty Hopkins for themselves in the 1970s has been listed at grade II*. The Hopkins House, which is tucked between Victorian villas on Downshire ...

High-tech architects Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano collaborated together throughout the 1970s on a series of factories and offices including the headquarters of furniture company B&B Italia in Como, ...

Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American computer scientist, software developer, and philanthropist best known for his initiating work in software development and his contributions to Microsoft.

A Tudor cottage has been converted into one of the most hi-tech homes in the world after its owner connected it to the internet messaging service Twitter. IBM head of invention Andy Stanford-Clark at ...