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A tiny blue horse shed a single tear.

Artist Urs Fischer makes precious chandeliers from Murano glass.

Playing with ideas of nature and abstraction, together the pieces reminded us of being in a funhouse version of a greenhouse.

Katherine in front of her home when she visited weeks after the fire. She lost just about everything, from her wheelchairs and adaptive surfboards to boxes of memorabilia from her late father's world travels.

Moss-covered rocks and twisted tree trunks give the landscape a fairyland-like quality.

Grimshaw and his partner didn’t work with a mood board or go in with a big grand vision; rather, they felt it out along the way and let the home dictate decisions. “If I’d been left to my own devices, it would’ve been much more boring,” he laughs. “She brought the richness.

For his holiday home outside São Paulo, Rodrigo Ohtake wanted to balance quality against affordability. He opted for prefab construction without the prefab look. “The challenge was to design a house that didn’t look like a prefabricated modular house, without deviating from the original modular concept,” he explains.

Barcelona firms MIAS Architects and Coll-Leclerc completed 72 social housing units in the Marina del Prat Vermell neighborhood in 2023. The facade features alternating vertical strips of glass and ribbed fiber-reinforced concrete. The triangular building’s openings are designed to maximize solar gain in winter and provide solar shading and cross ventilation in summer on all floors.

In the primary bathroom, defined by the pink stained glass window, the architect and her team painstakingly sourced slabs of Vagli Rosato pink and purple marble to wrap the walls around the shower and bathtub.