An Introduction to Modern Textiles: Kit out your furniture in luxurious silk or no-frills leather,; textiles can add just as much dimension to room as art, and can be equally collectible.

We love this sleek home office design layout, where steel details contrast mesquite flooring throughout the home, including at the pathway to the "crow’s nest" office. It's also a great option if you're looking for home office ideas for small spaces.

Galvanized steel is used to bridge the gap between natural landscape and structure in the entryway of the house.

Open to the valley, the home lets the Shopes fully experience the seasons, even the sound of the Hudson River’s ice cracking in winter.

Amie Siegel's film The Architects offers viewers a peak into the offices of leading architecture firms throughout New York City.

As Siegel's camera visits architecture studios around the city from downtown Manhattan and Fifth Avenue to Brooklyn, similarities both functional and stylistic appear in the form of loft-like spaces, communal work tables, and other omnipresent tools of the trade.

The film was comissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture and originally debuted at the OfficeUS, the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Siegel set out to uncover the human side of architecture—the often-unseen professionals who collectively shape the world through their work.

The main living area is connected to the back unit by a modern bridge. Polished concrete is used for both floors and ceilings, and a Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Stool accents the space.

The Outfit Home storefront in Hollywood.

The Andersen Architectural Collection’s Eagle windows and doors provide the panes and passageways of the home.

Classic butterfly chairs from Universal Patio Furniture are stationed by the pool. The mural is by street artist Morley, a close friend.

Architectural ispiration and exhibition posters fill the walls of Juhl's home office. Two chairs of Juhl's design are placed on the side of his desk, designed in 1945.

A long stretch of connected fishing sheds run the length of Grandi, and this is really the heart of the design district. Designers of every kind have taken spaces here for their studios, including product designer Sigga Heimis and fashion designer STEiNUNN. Photo by: Tiffany Orvet

Designer Christiane Hogner, Bruxelles

Gray Organschi took down a worn-out 1970s summer home and reinvented it as a serene pair of bleached cedar volumes connected by a glass bridge.

Seeking more space and a connection with the city, an artist and a designer turn an old Toronto storefront in Dundas West into a home and studio. Photo by Naomi Finlay.

Living Moss wall in powder room created by Minarc.

The amorphous pink structure is augmented by artist Jana Winderen‘s engineered sounds and a series of embedded transducers that hook up to light sources inside. See Situation NY at Storefront for Architecture at 97 Kenmare Street, through November 21, 2014.

The installation is a lightweight, self-supported shell structure composed of twenty spheres of incremental diameters. Its 1,673 unique parts add up to 168,520 square inches of surface area.

"Situation NY", a collaboration between sound artist Jana Winderen and designer Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY, is open at Storefront for Art and Architecture through November 21, 2014.

The installation, which fill the street-level space, collapses sound, light, shape, and color into object with sensory behaviors, so that is responds to stimulus provided by visitors.

They also designed two books for the Princeton Architectural Press' new series Inventory Books.

The kitchen is perfect both for eating and for doing projects.

The skylights are constantly changing the home's interiors. It's "not just day/night, or dark/light," says Bernheimer, "but the quality of light...changes at any given hour, depending on where clouds are, where the sun is, whether the moon is full or not, all dependent on the time of day, time of year, and so forth."

“Shophouses brought back memories of our childhoods, of open back doors and neighbors and relatives wandering in and out of the kitchen and cooking and eating and coming and going whether you liked it or not.”—Yang Yeo

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When not in use during winter, the tub is hidden from the home’s view. The entrance has a sheltered overhang for car parking.

Anna and Michael Trubrig’s Manhattan gallery, Stillfried Wien, opened in 2013.

Organizations such as Friends of the Los Angeles River have been working on revitalizing the waterfront for decades, reserving years of planning and development that led a once vital source of water for agriculture to become a concrete-covered waterway known known by many as the site of gritty Hollywood chase scenes. Play the LA River wants to add to that conversation around revitalization.

Light streams from above into the living room and kithen thanks to the home's largest skylight. This skylight isn't one large window but two: one on the eastern side of the double-height volume, and one on the western. In between them are sculptural, pyramid-shaped forms that block and diffuse the sunlight throughout the day. In the words of the architects, they "add to the unexpective quality of light" in the space.

A gallery occupies the lower level. "The house really ended up becoming a vessel through which the art is experienced," says Dolezal. To learn more about how architects design around art collections, view our story on the Housemuseum in Melbourne, Australia.

Lawrence Weiner sits at his daylit desk. The bare walls are perfect for tacking up new projects, and the steel ductwork gives the space an industrious feel.