Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen has debuted pieces from its first Skagerak Outdoor furniture collection as a permanent "installation" at Piaule ho ...
This is an in-house office plan of our design office. Approximately 30 staff members working in our office, which is located in the central part of Ja ...
Liège Supermarket, New Retail Building Belgium, Delhaize Group Project, Belgian Shop Design Wooden Supermarket in Liège Delhaize Group Building Deve ...
London studio Mae Architects has created Harriet Hardy House in Southwark, a block of 119 social homes complete with a community centre and cafe. Comm ...
Architect Antoni Gaudí’s very first architectural commission was designed in 1885 as a luxury retreat for a local family, and it?s been in pri ...
Innovation is typically met with curiosity and enthusiasm, but when it comes to architecture, it often tends to affect commercial value negatively in ...
Properly modified for habitation, shipping containers can transform into all sorts of things, including homes, offices, pop-up stores, cafés, and m ...
Grafton Architects co-founders Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell have just made history. The pair was recently awarded the celebrated Pritzker Archi ...
Louis Vuitton isn’t exactly known for subtlety. The French luxury fashion house founded in 1854 splashes its iconic monogram pattern all over m ...
Homeowners are often advised to consider the ability to resell their house when making renovations. After all, if you make permanent changes that are ...
Widely beloved after finding romantic love on season 14 of The Bachelorette, reality stars JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers now seek a different kind ...
From the outside, this building in Oaxaca, Mexico looks harsh and fortress-like. It’s a monumental concrete structure with no windows in sight. ...
Ever wonder why almost all of our architecture is rectilinear" It’s mostly about ease of construction, since lumber and other building material ...
Airbnb is a great place to find unique houses to rent for short and long stays. Some have lakes and pools onsite, others boast breathtaking vistas fr ...
It’s become a bit of a joke in recent years that you can buy just about anything you can possibly imagine on Amazon. Indeed, the world’s ...
This strange-looking house in Lebanon stretches down its steeply sloped site, almost looking like it’s in danger of an impending crash. Taking ...
Rust may seem like the last thing you want on a metal building, but corten steel is different. Also known as “weathering steel,†or by its ...
After 88 years, Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture at Taliesin is closing. The Governing Board of the school was not able to reach an ...
In some areas of the U.S., people who own homes deemed “historic†are fighting local preservationists for their right to install solar pan ...
A classic icon in the video game world has set its sights on a rebirth in the form of a gaming-themed destination hotel line. Arguably the first mains ...
Not so long ago, senior citizens lived out their final days in multi-generational family homes where younger relatives could care for them. In some pa ...
Originating in Japan with the “Capsule Inn Osaka†by architect Kisho Kurosawa and popularized by Tokyo’s odd-looking Nagakin Capsul ...
Great architecture and interior design finds inspiration in innumerable places, so what better way to unleash creative thinking than by tapping into ...
Taking inspiration from the Bullitt Center in Seattle, donor and founder of the Kendeda Fund Diana Blank brought the idea for a living building to the ...
In most residential architecture, there’s hardly a rounded shape to be found. But taking the extra effort to diversify the geometry of a house ...
Most IKEA stores take up a huge amount of space — about 300,000 square feet on average, including the parking lots. That’s roughly the s ...
The new year will bring the completion of a pretty dazzling array of architectural projects, some of which have been in the making for a decade or mo ...
Cemeteries are usually thought of as sad places — maybe even creepy ones, which says a lot about our societal relationship with death. Might ou ...
People tend to be pretty enchanted with Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous house. Built on top of a waterfall, it has the highly un ...
In Beijing, China, neighborhoods of traditional homes called “siheyuan†cluster together around their characteristic individual courtyards ...
The so-called “trash†all around us holds enormous potential. How many materials could we be salvaging from landfills to reuse, repair, or ...
In 2008, Beijing pumped millions of dollars into venues and infrastructure for the Summer Olympics, creating some iconic architecture in the process. ...
Breakthroughs come when we dispel our reliance on the conventional, no matter how strange our ideas may seem at first. A new house in Pifo, Ecuador de ...
Artistic extravaganza directors and producers typically spends lots of time searching for the perfect venues to showcase every fantastic detail of the ...
It could be argued that we already live our lives as monuments to corporations, so why not make that adage literal by molding our houses after them" A ...
Brutalist architecture is exactly what it sounds like. Characterized by utilitarian, monolithic concrete forms, this 20th-century movement remains as ...
It’s not exactly polite to buy a plot of land in a historic neighborhood and build something that sticks out like a sore thumb, having almost n ...
If hobbits suddenly became fans of slightly futuristic contemporary design, Hobbiton might look a little bit like this wild mostly-subterranean home i ...
The General Motors Technical Center is widely regarded as an icon of midcentury architectural design and has received generous praise as a landmark pr ...
Rio de Janeiro is a lively, bustling, crowded city with incredible views of Guanabara Bay and lush, tree-covered hills all around. Plots of land in de ...
Cultural zeitgeists have a way of influencing architecture and design. It’s a trend that has lasted centuries and continues to evolve today. Un ...
Cookie-cutter architecture doesn’t do us many favors. It may be easier to design and build, but it’s rarely well suited to its environme ...
At 623 feet, the atrium of the new Leeza SOHO tower in Beijing just became the tallest in the world, beating out the Burj Al Arab in Dubai by 23 feet. ...
Tirol, Austria is best known for the traditional alpine structures dotting its verdant mountainsides, but there’s plenty of modern architecture ...
The vast majority of rooftops are just wasted space, especially in crowded cities. At the very least, they should be collecting rainwater or covered i ...
The moving part of this remarkable sliding building is a whopping 50 tons and nearly 100 feet long. Gliding on rails, this enclosing exterior element ...
Urban sprawl rarely receives the attention generated by climate change or even homeless pets, but nearly everyone on Earth has experienced its effects ...
Many common construction materials have a huge negative impact on the environment. Cement is the most energy-intensive of all manufacturing industries ...
Music and art are often inseparably intertwined. In the case of Iceland’s Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre, that idea takes center stag ...
When we incorporate existing architecture into a new project, we preserve a slice of local history, culture, and character while eliminating a whole l ...
How will computers continue to shape architecture over the next few decades" To get some ideas, you just need to look at the portfolio of Gramazio & K ...
When you want to give yourself a makeover, you focus on the most outwardly-facing elements that can be easily changed: hair, face, nails, clothes, sho ...
When one thinks of spas, images likely range from a mani pedi at the local day spa to morning yoga under the desert sun — but a new spa opening ...
Affordable housing options are shrinking every day. Even the newer so-called “low-income†housing projects are priced way too high for mos ...
All great design is a combination of creativity, art, and function. The Casa Terracota fits all those criteria with its originality and implementation ...
Most treehouses are humbly but lovingly constructed, consisting of little more than some scrap wood nailed to the trunk of a tree to form steps, a pla ...
A living, breathing skyscraper towers across the skyline in the Kai Tak area of Kowloon, Hong Kong. Designed by Midori Architects, the SkyHive Skyscra ...
Etsy probably isn’t the first place you’d look when buying a new house. But when you search for “tiny house†on the handmade ...
Close the front entry door and raise the drawbridge-style bedroom window and the whole frontage fades into the nighttime darkness, giving no hint that ...
This is one of those shelter design ideas that sounded good in theory and problematic in practice. Few such projects become a reality, making this tim ...
A relaxing getaway conducive to creative thinking is just steps from an author’s back door with this lantern-like design tucked away in a fence ...
Of all the homes an architect might design over the course of a career, the home he designs for his own family should undoubtedly be the best and most ...
Lots near the water get a lot cheaper if you are just one or two plots removed from the water’s edge, which is turned from curse to blessing in ...
Hidden between the walls of this one-of-a-kind residence are piles of hemp, long touted as a sustainable material with many eco-friendly uses but ra ...
More like a tree mansion than mere house, this lumbering structure is (unfortunately) not as old, haphazard and full of mystery as it might first appe ...
With the zombie craze reaching brain-consuming new heights, ever more emergency shelter ideas have risen to meet the fantastic challenge of defending ...
Many architects talk of responding to the site and integrating their buildings with the surrounding natural environment, but few execute that intentio ...
An x-shaped concrete house with a rooftop pavilion hangs over the edge of a hillside in Barcelona, Spain, maximizing natural daylighting on the interi ...
So many architects have begun converting cargo shipping containers into houses, apartments, offices and more – so how could you pack any more s ...
We love a good home office design, and it’s even better when the office is in the back yard, away from the distractions of your main home. Tele ...
Passive solar design is a no-brainer ? yet the conventional way to deal with building facades that will be subjected to the hot, unrelenting sun i ...
Climate control is an expensive component in relation to the infrastructure of classrooms, art studios, and exhibition halls. Most of these instit ...
If your interest is piqued but you don’t feel quite ready to take on a U-Build projectt of your own, you might be interested to hear th ...
Do you find black buildings harsh, gloomy, or even foreboding" How about when their shapes are just as dramatic as their color, with rooflines as ...
For simplicity?s sake, modular architecture is often a little boring. Modules have to be easy to assemble, transport, and stack, after all, so they ge ...
What do you do with an abandoned supermarket that?s no longer needed for its original purpose but still has great bones" In this case, transform it in ...
Back in 1952, Mies van der Rohe, known simply as Mies to the world of design, conceived, planned and drew blueprints for a building on Indiana Univers ...
Not everyone can see past the dust and deterioration of an abandoned space and imagine a gorgeous, elegant design. Leave it to an architect to recogni ...
Like the handmade abode of a lonely logger making unconventional use of his harvest, this conceptual home finds shelter in an unexpected place: a ...
Who can resist the aspirational lure of a beautifully designed tropical house" As we head into the darker half of the year in the northern hemisphere, ...
Religious sanctuaries are sheltered places where people can reflect on life in peace and quiet, protected from profane and commonplace everyday living ...
Ask any amusement park enthusiast what the most terrifying ride is, and most will name some type of death-defying roller coaster. The horrifying a ...
The late American author William Feather said, ?Business is always interfering with pleasure ? but it makes other pleasures possible.? IS Architec ...
Designed to mimic a verdant hill, Heatherwick Studio?s landscaped pergola building will bring greenery and dynamic shapes to the new Toranomon-Azabuda ...
Anyone who’s visited Patagonia before is likely to appreciate the natural beauty and epic wonder the area has to offer. It?s essentially a ...
The city of Porto, Portugal is still best known for its brightly-painted traditional architecture, which comes in a rainbow of hues. But in the midst ...
Earlier this year, a company called Open Meals caused a bit of a ruckus on the internet when it announced a new sushi technology that custom-crafts re ...
When one Greek expatriate commissions another to create a cultural center in Shanghai to celebrate their homeland?s culture, it becomes an obsession, ...
Right in the middle of urban Los Angeles, black tar bubbles up from the ground, often covered in fallen leaves. A registered National Natural Landmark ...
Occupying the southwest region of Colorado a whopping 1400 years ago, the Pueblo Native Americans set a standard for architectural design seldom seen ...
Transforming shipping containers into housing is a trend that doesn?t seem to be slowing down, but are shipping container homes really a good ? or eve ...
While architects are celebrated for their achievements with high-profile awards like the Pritzker Prize, the landscape architects who play a crucial r ...
We?re bombarded by advertisements all day, every day, virtually everywhere we look. This kind of over-saturation can lead to ?ad blindness,? where we ...
When Henry David Thoreau wrote the immensely influential classic Walden; Or, Life in the Woods about simple living in natural surroundings, it?s safe ...
