While gazing into César Manrique’s brilliant white sea-water rock pool in Lanzarote, architect Ellen van Loon, partner at Dutch practice OMA, reflected on how architecture in its purest form is merely the definition of space. Here she takes a moment to recall a carefree summer holiday

George Yabu, of Yabu Pushelberg, recalls how a school trip to Montreal to see Buckminster Fuller’s Biosphere proved a perspective-shifting experience that still shapes his approach to design

Jonathan Tuckey takes advantage of his travel hiccups to write up Antwerp’s majestic fin-de-siècle train station

Alex Michaelis – co-founder of architecture studio Michaelis Boyd – sets his pen to work conjuring this enchantingly functional 20th-century Parisian house, in all its pared-back glory 

Swedish-born designer Martin Brudnizki takes a writerly trip down memory lane and recalls his childhood visits to the Guards Tent in Stockholm’s Drottningholm Palace