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By Amrit Dhillon in Delhi

8 December 2023

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15 December 2023

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Found family event masterpost

Thank you for all your submissions! Below the cut is the list of Torchwood fic recs focused on found family, as submitted by you, our followers!

we built a family (home) by myre ( JackIanto | Complete | 17844 | M )

When Jack gets back, things are different—he’s different—and he’s not sure where he fits anymore, but he should’ve known that there was a place reserved just for him.

Ianto Jones' thoughts on Life, Death, and Summer Squashes by Arnica ( JackIanto, GwenRhys | Complete | 17762 | T )

The first thing he remembers afterward (and the rest of his life will always before and after Thames House now) is waking up to the sound of hospital machinery droning away, Gwen's head heavy on his legs as she drools on him with Rhys snoring away in the chair next to her, his hand spread wide across her back, head tipped back as he sleeps. Then there's Jack, sitting sideways in the window with his gun drawn and resting in his lap as he does something with the wrist straps in his hands.

Two of Us Are Hung From the Same Twisted Rope by ShastaFirecracker ( JackIanto, ToshOwen | Complete | 15799 | T )

An accident with some sort of brain-scanning alien device leaves Owen and Ianto sharing Ianto's body. Hijinks and nightmares ensue.

Does Africa Know a Song of Me? by etmuse ( JackIanto, MarthaTom, GwenRhys | Complete | 17618 | T )

Jack gets a call from UNIT. They need his help in Namibia. And when they arrive, Jack and Ianto (because Jack wouldn't leave him behind) discover the only communication they have with the team is letters.

Torchwood One Archive by james ( JackIanto | Complete | 11346 | M )

AU after season one. Jack has returned to Torchwood and to Ianto. Ianto is determined to make the best of it but he knows it won't last forever. Their time together threatens to get even shorter when the Doctor shows up unexpectedly.

In Bits and Pieces by reiley ( JackIanto, GwenRhys | Complete | 83306 | M )

Sort of a fill-in-the-blanks story throughout the entire series: How they pull the pieces together after the world shatters, focusing mainly on Jack and Ianto, but all the others are there, too. Takes place between 'Exit Wounds' and 'The Stolen Earth', goes through all of series 1 and 2, and far back into the past.

Lost and Found by Kaneko ( JackIanto | Complete | 3642 | E )

Straddled over the rift, the Hub was a place where things were lost and found. Strange objects washed in like driftwood. Things went missing. There was never any sign of where they'd gone.

Personnel Issues by PinkFairy727 ( JackIanto, GwenRhys | Complete | 41434 | T )

The Torchwood Three email newsletter: an excuse to gossip, bitch, plan dates, fight, and discuss squirrel rats. Co-authored with sparking_off.

Warnings: canon character death and swearing.

Just this once by Beleriandings ( JackIanto, ToshOwen, GwenRhys, LoisEsther | Complete | 239639 | T )

(Everybody lives.) (Or: when a certain Doctor arrives to save Owen Harper from a stricken nuclear power station, it begins a chain of events that will lead Torchwood Three down a very different path. From time locks and telepathy to tea and coffee, high-speed chases to unresolved sibling issues, their new lives (and new and old loves) may be different, but their bonds of friendship and family grow stronger every day. But when every child on earth starts speaking with one voice, the team are torn apart again as they’re forced to fight for their lives, and to confront monsters they’d thought they’d left behind in the past. But with all of them working together – along with some allies they’ve made along the way – Torchwood Three will stop at nothing to save their friends and set the world to rights. The consequences will ripple out across the universe and into the distant future. But they have to start somewhere, and the present is as good a place as any.)

Club Wales by pocky_slash ( Gwen&Ianto, GwenRhys, JackIanto | Complete | 19898 | T )

In the wake of Jack's disappearance, Gwen finds comfort in a new friendship with Ianto. Gossip, bonding, and other hijinks of understanding ensue.

Hell or High Water by aliciajazmin ( GwenJohnTosh | Complete | 3102 | T )

Toshiko, Gwen, and John have been married for a year now, beginning a life of adventure and crime (but only against those who deserve it). A mission going wrong results in the discovery of an orphan.

The three of them and the orphan must then decide what they want for their future.

A E I O Moo, I love Y O U by aliciajazmin ( GwenJackIantoRhys, GwenRhys, JackIanto | Complete | 627 | G )

Jack finds a new song to introduce to Anwen.

AKA Roses are red, violets are blue, Jack likes to sing: A E I O Moo.

Never Has He Ever by Jackdaw816 (JohnAndy | Complete | 1666 | T )

Hub lockdowns are great for juvenile drinking games and revelations of the self

Coping by innocent-until-proven-geeky (JackIanto, Gwen&Ianto, Gwen&Jack | Complete | 910 | G )

After the events of Exit Wounds, Jack, Ianto, and Gwen are exhausted.

Hug by innocent-until-proven-geeky ( Gwen&Ianto | Complete | 401 | G )

Not-wanting-to-let-go hugs.

March 31st in the Torchwood Family Household by innocent-until-proven-geeky ( JackIanto, GwenRhys, GwenJackIantoRhys | Complete | 117 | G )

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Please enjoy this little ficlet of trans Torchwood polycule. In my headcanon, Ianto is a binary trans man using he/him pronouns, Jack is genderfluid using he/him pronouns, and Gwen is nonbinary using they/them pronouns with Torchwood and she/her pronouns in public.

Here For You (a friend's night out) by BookWerm ( Ianto&Tosh | Complete | 354 | T )

An answer to the prompt : “I’m their best friend” with Ianto and Gwen or Ianto and Tosh

The Lonely Cheryth by BookWerm ( Alice&Jack, Steven&Jack, Others | Complete | 6581 | G )

Steven's Uncle Jack is a mystery. One that he's determined to solve.

A fic through quite a bit of Steven's life (yes, he lives through Children of earth) that was quite a bit of fun

A Moment (An Eternity) by Clare_Hope ( JackIanto, ToshOwen, GwenRhys | WIP | 10923 | T )

Owen slid underneath the closing door just in time to escape the room about to be flooded with radioactive coolant. Tosh didn't die of her wounds because with Owen there, she got medical attention before it was too late. The entire Torchwood team made it through that terrible day. Everything should be alright now. But Jack is really, really not alright.

Below 20° Celsius by Clare_Hope ( JackIanto, Team | Complete | 5182 | T )

20° Celsius is generally considered to be the lowest a human's body temperature can be before dying. This is bad news for Jack, who is a bit colder than that when he's pulled out of Cardiff Bay after drowning continually for a couple hours. The good news is that he doesn't have to deal with it alone.

Work Friends by Clare_Hope (Ianto&Tosh | WIP | 3431 | T )

After everything that happened with Mary, Ianto is the only one who doesn't seem uncomfortable around Toshiko. She can't read his mind anymore, but pretty sure she knows what he's thinking: We've both seen someone we thought loved us killed by Jack. I understand. I might be the only one who understands.

Of Motion in Perpetuity by Beleriandings ( JackIanto, GwenRhys | Complete | 106708 | M )

When Gwen, Jack and Ianto investigate a cold case from end of the nineteenth century, they find themselves pulled back in time against their will, fighting to protect each other and to get home.

Conditional Iteration by Beleriandings ( Gwen&Ianto, JackIanto, GwenRhys | WIP | 35431 | T )

Gwen can only watch, helpless and raging and grieving, as Jack and Ianto die in Thames House. The next moment though, she finds herself pulled out of time, back to the moment it all started to go wrong. Maybe second chances aren't in quite such short supply as she thought.

Coffee Break by firesnap ( Gwen&Ianto | Complete | 2069 | G )

Gwen and Ianto steal a few minutes to chat and make plans.

Another Rainy Day by SerenityJane ( Team | Complete | 3088 | T )

Tosh darted the occasional look at the closed door, curiousity warring with courtesy. So was Gwen, but she looked more like someone was dangling sweets in front of her nose and telling her she couldn’t have them. No prize for guessing who the candy was. Owen was watching the girls, and desperately trying not to think of pink elephants.

The Right Kind of Doctor by joonscribble ( Owen&Team | Complete | 2008 | R )

Three times Owen Harper was good at his job. Set between season 1 and 2.

Stargazing and Truth-Telling by earlybloomingparentheses ( JackIanto | Complete | 4632 | T )

A month after the events of "Exit Wounds," Jack Harkness heads off to an unknown galaxy on a mission for UNIT, and Ianto and Gwen are left behind to stare up at the stars and wonder when he's coming back. As a small act of rebellion against Jack's perpetual mysteriousness, they decide to play a game: they have to answer each other's questions with absolute honesty. There's a lot Ianto needs to get off his chest, his feelings about Jack Harkness not least, but the truth is tricky--it's never safe, and it's certainly never easy.

ghosts in my head by Sholio ( Team | Complete | 2637 | T )

Owen doesn't sleep, but he does dream. And the dreams he gets are mostly nightmares, because of course they are.

Facing Light in the Flow by engagemythrusters ( JackIanto, GwenRhys | Complete | 3821 | T )

A slice of a life nobody had dreamt they would ever have.

The Door Wide Open by sherlockpond ( GwenRhys, JackIanto, ToshOwen | Complete | 5333 | G )

Torchwood incurs a tough life on its field operatives.  They deserve times where they feel like they need to be vulnerable in  front of each other. [6 times the team were emotionally honest with one another - set during various points of S1 and S2]

Flatpacked by Beleriandings ( Ianto&Rhys, JackIanto, GwenRhys | Complete | 6946 | G )

Rhys has a day off, and decides to spend it peacefully looking at homeware in Ikea. He's not expecting to bump into one of his wife's coworkers there; much less, a shapeshifting alien that likes to eat batteries. But then again, that's Torchwood for you.

On saving the world, and what happens after by Beleriandings ( Gwen&Ianto, JackIanto | Complete | 2447 | G )

After the events of Journey's End, Gwen and Ianto wait for Jack to come home.

Domestic Disharmony by thirteeninafez ( Gwen&Ianto, Gwen&Jack, GwenRhys, JackIanto | Complete | 3163 | G )

In which Jack and Gwen get stuck in the Archives and discuss green milk, thermostats and Ianto Jones.

After the events of Journey's End, Gwen and Ianto wait for Jack to come home.

Pastries, Avoidance Tactics, and a Bottle of Scotch by pocky_slash ( Gwen&Ianto, JackIanto, GwenRhys | Complete | 6220 | G )

In which Gwen said something she regrets, Ianto makes a poor dinner choice, Rhys offers sound advice, and Jack has a key. A different sort of "Meat" post-ep.

Respite by Beleriandings ( Gwen&Ianto, GwenRhys, JackIanto | Complete | 2591 | G )

Even by their usual standards, Gwen thought it was absolutely fair to say it had been a rough week.

Blood on Steel by Sholio (Owen&Ianto, Gwen&Jack&Owen&Tosh&Ianto | Complete | 12257 | T)

An alien booby trap turns the Hub into a deathtrap. Lucky thing it doesn't react to someone with no vital signs. Now Owen is their only hope. More specifically, he's Ianto's only hope.

The Cartography of Feeling by Sholio (Owen&Ianto | Complete | 20846 | T)

"We're sodding gladiators," Owen said. "Fuck this entire day and Jack Harkness too."

(Or: Owen and Ianto are abducted by aliens and forced to arena-fight. But the worst part might be the control device that connects them in an emotion and pain-sharing bond.)

Haul Out the Holly by Flamingbluepanda (JackIanto, GwenRhys | Complete | 1069 | G)

Sometimes you need a little magic in your christmas

with a lil’ help from my friends by Flamingbluepanda (JackIanto, GwenRhys, OwenTosh | complete | 1307 | G)

Everyone needs a Hug sometimes, Torchwood Included

(Or, five times Jack thought about hugs and the one time he thought of nothing at all)

I’ll think of you each time I watch from distant skies by Violetmessages (JackIanto, GwenRhys, Jack&Team | complete | 3749 | T)

In which Tosh makes a discovery and the team comes together to show Jack how much they love him.

Halfway Back by Sholio (Gwen&Jack&Owen&Ianto&Tosh | complete | 13953 | T)

Team Torchwood run a sanctuary for magical creatures, and this time they've got a basilisk on their hands.

Team Means Pack by Sholio (Gwen&Jack&Owen&Ianto&Tosh | complete | 2615 | G)

Post-Countrycide in a universe with werewolves.

Stormwrack by Sholio (Gen | complete | 2111 | T)

The last time Owen was in the Brecon Beacons, Welsh cannibals tried to eat him. This time, it was pouring buckets on him, and he was dead. At least the latter might help with the cannibal problem, although given his luck, probably not. They might just consider him well-aged, like a side of bacon.

Sky’s the Limit by Blackkat (JackIanto, SuzieTosh, Ianto&Suzie | series | 6,694 | T)

Ianto and Suzie meet as strangers on a rooftop, and bond over aborted suicide attempts, failed plans, bastard fathers, and the fact that they're batting for both teams. Friendship is a beautiful thing.

Forever and What Comes After by violetmessages (JackIanto, GwenRhys | complete | 10028 | T)

“Hm, imagine if they did,” Ianto said. “Torchwood would have to come out of retirement.”

In which Gwen and Ianto relax at a spa, Jack and Rhys attempt bad science, and Anwen is just along for the ride.

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time by paycheckgurl (JackIanto, GwenRhys | complete | 3351 | T)

This wasn’t exactly how they planned their Christmas going, but they were going to make the best of it.

Remnants of a Forgotten Past by paycheckgurl (Gwen Cooper & Jack Harkness & Owen Harper & Ianto Jones & Toshiko Sato | complete | 7523 | T)

Torchwood's latest case hits close to home for Tosh when it seems to center on Lodmoor Research Facility's Newest project...of a destructive off world variety.

Written for Torchwood MiniBang

Midlife Crisis by Princessoftheworlds (JackIanto | complete | 371 | T)

"You do realize," begins Owen one day during their usual lunch meeting, chopsticks dangling from his hand, "that technically, Javic is your mid-life crisis?"

Found you made us a star by Princessoftheworlds (JackIanto, OwenTosh, GwenRhys | complete | 6477 | T)

Millennia after having lost their team, Jack and Ianto set about reuniting with old friends and crafting a Torchwood for a new future.

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Dezeen's top 10 architecture trends of 2020

Continuing our review of 2020, here are 10 of the most interesting architecture trends, from escapist cabins to Thomas Heatherwick's green thumb and, of course, architects' responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

Prefabricated cabins

Factory-made homes are a hot topic in discussions of addressing global housing shortages, but 2020 was the year that architects explored their dreamier qualities. Perhaps it was the seemingly endless isolation, but prefabricated cabins that can be packed off to remote locations for living out an off-grid fantasy were very popular this year.

Muji was first out of the gate with Yō no Ie, a single-story dwelling designed for rural areas that features an expansive deck – complete with a sunken conversation pit – to encourage outdoor living.

Italian architects Massimo Gnocchi and Paolo Danesi provided a romantic vision of modular construction with Mountain Refuge, a concept for a plywood micro home designed for relaxing in the wild.

Studio Puisto also created a modular prefabricated cabin called Space of Mind that can function as an off-grid retreat or, in light of the coronavirus pandemic, as an extra room for working or exercising. The A-frame Den Cabin Kit also arrives in a flatpack kit of parts and can be assembled in just a few days.

Coronavirus field hospitals

As the coronavirus pandemic put hospitals around the world under pressure, architects and builders sprang into action to create field hospitals to treat patients.

In Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began, work continued through the night at the end of January on the 1,000-bed Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital. In February it was able to accept its first patients after just nine days of construction.

Italy was one of the earliest countries to be hit hard by Covid-19, with hospitals quickly reaching capacity. In March, Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota developed an intensive care unit housed in a shipping container and by April the first two-bed unit was accepting coronavirus patients in a Turin hospital.

In the UK, architecture and engineering firm BDP helped turn the ExCel centre, a London conference venue, into the 4,000-bed NHS nightingale.

Aerial photography

As drones become more and more accessible, architecture photographers took to the skies to capture a birds-eye view of structures.

Aerial photographer Tom Hegen produced a series of photos of greenhouses in the Netherlands to ask questions about the world's food supplies.

Photography from above was a particular theme in the projects that won in Dezeen Awards 2020. Shots from the sky showed off the stepped roof garden of a red house in Vietnam by TAA, which won rural house of the year and architecture project of the year.

Aerial photography also captured arresting visuals of the civic building of the year, a primary school in Iran by FEA Studio, and a bicycle park in Copenhagen by COBE that won landscape project of the year. Drone photography also featured in shots of a treetop cycling circuit by BuroLandschap and De Gregorio & Partners, which was crowned infrastructure project of the year.

Biophilic Heatherwick 

Heatherwick Studio flew the flag for biophilic architecture in 2020 – the practice of integrating plants to create indoor spaces that still allow occupants to connect to nature.

For its Maggie's Centre in Leeds, UK, the architecture firm created a timber-lined space filled with greenery and shelves especially for plant plots. With its grass-covered roof, the centre is designed to provide respite for people living with cancer.

In Singapore, the Thomas Heatherwick-founded practice completed a 20-storey residential tower apartment building called EDEN that's covered in plants, thanks to each home having its own balcony-style garden.

Even on a much smaller scale, the studio found ways to help people bring greenery into their homes, creating a desk that has plant holders for legs.

Architecture on film

2020 was the year that lots of people finally had time to catch up on their to-watch list.

To ease the boredom of lockdown and the loneliness of self-isolation, Dezeen put together a list of all the most interesting architecture on the big screen, and a round-up of all the top architecture and design documentaries to watch in quarantine.

It was so popular we also put together a spooky list of films and television shows where the haunted house plays a starring role.

Readers were inspired to share their own must-see film favourites, and we published these top quality recommendations in a list of their own.

Carbon-neutral architecture

As the world wakes up to the serious risk of a climate emergency, the architecture industry took a serious look at how the sector needs to cut its contribution. Some studios have become pioneers of carbon-neutral architecture – where a structure doesn't release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than it traps in place, or is designed to run on renewable energy sources.

Architecture studio A-01 unveiled a prototype for zero-carbon housing in Costa Rica, and a carbon-neutral hotel designed by Von M opened in Germany.

Stirling Prize-winning studio Mikhail Riches has a plan to deliver 600 Passivhaus homes in York, which is set to be the largest net-zero carbon housing scheme in England. In Wales, Loyn & Co is planning a 35-home net-zero-carbon housing scheme that will be built from cross-laminated timber (CLT).

People also shared tools to help other professionals achieve carbon neutrality. Construction company Skanska and software developer C Change Labs created a calculator to help compare the environmental impact of materials, and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios made a spreadsheet that can predict a building's carbon emissions over its lifespan.

Self-designed homes

Everyone was in the market for a little home improvement after months of staring at the same four walls, but no-one does a makeover quite like architects designing their own homes.

British architect John Pawson unveiled Home Farm, his minimalist countryside retreat set in a series of converted 17th-century farm buildings. Edinburgh pair Luke and Joanne McClelland carved a lateral apartment out of a set of Georgian townhouses.

In Australia, John Wardle remodelled his house of over two decades, while architect Simon Pole and graphic designer Annabel Dundas created a family home on the banks of the Yarra River.

More architects who became their own clients include the owners of Berman Horn Studio, who built their holiday home in Maine, and Lorenzo Grifantini with his house in Puglia.

Bjarke's BIG year

BIG founder Bjarke Ingels made plenty of headlines in 2020. In January he was heavily criticised for meeting with Brazil's controversial president Jair Bolsonaro. Ingels defended the meeting, arguing that "creating a list of countries or companies that BIG should shy away from working with seems to be an oversimplification of a complex world".

In March, as the pandemic bit, BIG turned its 3D printing facilities in New York over to making face shields. "The massive urgency and shortcomings of the traditional provisions and supply chain during the Covid outbreak has revealed the flexible making capacity that resides in so many places you don't normally associate with manufacturing, like architecture and design studios," Ingels told Dezeen.

In Albania there were protests in May over plans to replace Tirana's national theatre with a BIG design. Ingels made front-page news again in October, where a profile in TIME magazine revealed the extent of his next project: redesigning the entire planet to solve climate change.

His studio also announced some high profile projects in 2020, including a 3d-printed Moonbase for NASA, a city built out of wood at the foot of Mount Fuji, and a Virgin Hyperloop testing facility for Virginia.

Disguised ventilation shafts

Cunningly-disguised infrastructure elements were a more unexpected trend in 2020.

Grimshaw unveiled a range of vents for HS2 that will be masquerading as something else, including a farmyard barn in Chalfont and a sculptural crown-shaped landmark for Amersham.

Neiheiser Argyros built a white metal pavilion that integrates a digital screen, a cafe and public toilets to hide the fire escape and exhaust vents of the London Underground. On another part of the line, Cullinan Studio built an energy centre over the top of a vent to turn hot air created by the Northern Line into hot water for the surrounding homes – all hidden behind a bright red perforated metal screen.

Social distancing

Architects stepped in to help people and businesses cope with the pandemic, redesigning places and spaces so that people could use them while keeping a distance of over a metre from each other.

Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism came up with a model to allow food markets to re-open safely, and Italian practice Caret Studio painted a public square in a town near Florence so that residents could socialise outdoors.

Weston Williamson + Partners put together a plan to help workplaces to comply with social distancing rules, and The Manser Practice did the same for hotels.

MASS Design Group came up with strategies to help bars and restaurants separate customers, while Isometric Studio put together a toolkit for museums and galleries.

Precht presented a design for a socially distanced park based on a hedge maze, and Arup made miniature parks with built-in benches to help businesses re-open in Liverpool.

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