For contrast you can wander over to Glebe Place in Chelsea and see work in

For contrast, you can wander over to Glebe Place in Chelsea and see work in progress on a contemporary Arts & Crafts-style house, being built by architects James Gorst on a budget of close to pounds 800,000. Alternatively, Jon Broome's turf-roofed, semi-transparent Eco house in SE23 - inspired by the work of the late self-build guru Walter Segal - shows what you can do with tree trunks for pounds 110,000.These open invitations to the common herd are part of Britain's third annual "Heritage Open Days" event, organised by the Civic Trust, which starts next Saturday. In fact, the cost of building a new house can be much cheaper than buying and doing up an old one."Nightingale House, designed by Richard and business partner Hugh Cullum, cost less than pounds 80,000 to build in 1988. "I want to counter that perception and demonstrate that contemporary buildings can be user-friendly, comfortable and homely. "People also tend to think that bespoke architecture is expensive.

Sounds like a nightmare, but next Saturday Nightingale is holding yet another indiscriminate house party for a large group of strangers. Why? "There's a common presumption that all architects live in lovely Georgian houses while designing hideous modern ones for everyone else," he says. Fortunately, they didn't arrive en masse, but the waves of people who washed in and out of his spatially challenged north London home occasionally formed a sizable crowd "It was a bit like a party at times," he says. His guests were welcome but Richard had never met any of them before. They simply wandered in off the street, poked around, oohed and aahed, asked probing questions, and left. If you can't make it to Hamiltons to see the work on display, it will no doubt jump out at you soon from the pages of a glossy magazine: the Italian label, Moschino, has booked Gravitaz for its new advertising campaign. The work of Gravitaz is on show at Hamiltons, 13 Carlos Place, London W1 until 28 September. In one afternoon last September, architect Richard Nightingale received more than 300 visitors.

Gravitaz, as the three call themselves, have developed the relationship between clothes, captions and photograph into an artform. In their pictures, typefaces positively bounce together, taking on the properties of an Issey Miyake dress, or stretch into a pair of elongated platform shoes, becoming part of the image as a whole - as well as yielding information for those with the patience to find it. First, of course, there are the clothes, which are selected and put together by a stylist. Then there is the hair, the make-up and the model, the canvas upon which the image is built; and, of course, the photographer, whose eye behind the camera lens creates a look or a mood. Finally, there are the graphics, which turn a photograph into an editorial page. The caption information, from the fabric content of a suit to the addresses of the shops that sell it, makes a fashion spread relevant to the consumer, giving it a commercial value as well as a creative one.

Yesterday in The Independent we printed Token 1; today we print Token 2 Token 3 will be printed in tomorrow's Independent.. The images you see here are the combined efforts of stylist Claire Todd, photographer Platon, and graphic designer Peter Anderson, all of whom met in the early 1990s on the Graphic Design course at Central St Martin's College of Art & Design. At college, the three quickly realised that a magazine fashion spread is the sum of several different parts. A double room for one night costs pounds 70.How to QualifyTo qualify for your 2 for 1 break, you must collect three differently numbered tokens from the seven we are printing in The Independent and the Independent on Sunday and attach them to a voucher which we will print in The Independent on Thursday 12 September. When you have three tokens plus the voucher, follow the booking procedure detailed on this page.

You can check this with your chosen hotel when you make your initial reservation.There are more than 60 Minotel hotels participating in this offer, all of which are located in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All the hotels offer top-class comfort and pride themselves on providing a personal service that many larger establishments cannot match. In The Independent on Friday 13 September we will print a list of all the participating Minotel hotels with a brief description of each.Pictured today is Coul House Hotel, by Strathpeffer, Scotland. This country house is set in a magnificent highland setting and offers great cooking. Prices are based on two people sharing a double or twin room. All the participating hotels are members of the Minotel consortium and many will allow you to enjoy a longer stay on the same basis; pay for two nights and stay for four, for example. The Independent and the Independent on Sunday would like to invite you to take a hotel break and enjoy two nights for the price of one. Simply pay for one night's bed and breakfast and you will get the next night, including breakfast, free.