Francesco Librizzi's oak-and-steel staircase is as much a sculpture as it is a means of going between floors.
The modular Jellyfish Barge could be a solar-powered solution to food shortages.
A Portuguese summer home exemplifies adaptive reuse and the romance of an untamed coast.
Derived from a descriptive term used by Le Corbusier, béton brut (raw concrete), Brutalist architecture is an offshoot...
A design contest wants Ghanaians to envision modern homes hewn from the material beneath their feet.
Custom woodwork and natural light invigorate a formerly cramped space.
Up for auction in May, the Winton Guest House was the project a young Frank Gehry used to further develop his...
El Dorado's Habitat for Humanity prototype brings Eichler-esque style to the prairie.
Architecture Reseach Office's 60-square-foot chicken coop streamlines a Hamptons backyard.
This modern residence and gallery near San Jose, Costa Rica uses metal boxes like puzzle pieces to create a...
A pair of mobile studios in the U.K. connect artists, audience, and landscape.
Think of these inspiring new additions to schools and universities around the world as teachable monuments.
Our picks for the must-see showcases, installations, and more at one of the fall's blockbuster design fairs.
The lifestyle hotel chain’s $38 million renovation brings more swagger to Chicago's waterfront.
The story of modern furniture design can't be separated from material technology.
Now in its second year, the GreenBuilt Home tour showed the curious a cross-section of Chicago’s new sustainable and...
Good architecture makes the beautiful game look even better.
At this point in the planting season, your friends and neighbors may already have neatly arranged rows of starter...
When it comes to the World Architecture Festival—the largest, live global architecture festival and awards—the slight...
A book profiling workspaces ends up revealing the personalities of Scandinavian creatives, craftspeople, and makers.
The brainchild of a former British climate scientist, Bower House Construction takes a sophisticated, nature-first...
An experiential alternative to staid brick-and-mortar stores, pop-up shops are like the food trucks of retail—nimble,...
Size doesn’t always matter when it comes to these diminutive but design-savvy hotel rooms.
A class at Virginia Tech empowers future architects to build a prefab baseball fieldhouse from start to finish.
New mirrored flooring in an iconic Dutch home lets visitors experience design in a new dimension.
The prefab Active House B10 prototype in Stuttgart can be built in a day, but its implications will be felt for years.
The tactile, colorful, and programmable Smart Booo presents a colorful take on the staid switch.
Glass walls and a slide-away wall connect this rural escape with the outdoors.
A design competition organized by Unbranded Design and Herman Miller solicits new concepts for today's changing office.
Amsterdam’s de Pijp neighborhood, which means “the pipe,” gets its name from the low, narrow homes that dot the area.
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