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 private hands ever since. But this fall, for the first time ever, Barcelona?s Casa Vicens will open its...

Innovation is typically met with curiosity and enthusiasm, but when it comes to architecture, it often tends to affect commercial value negatively in the long run. In other words, some architecture is just too weird to stay popular over time. In...

Properly modified for habitation, shipping containers can transform into all sorts of things, including homes, offices, pop-up stores, cafés, and mechanic shops. Egyptian startup Qubix is well known for its creative work in this area, creating...

Grafton Architects co-founders Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell have just made history. The pair was recently awarded the celebrated Pritzker Architecture Prize, marking the first-ever time a pair of female business partners has earned the...

Louis Vuitton isn’t exactly known for subtlety. The French luxury fashion house founded in 1854 splashes its iconic monogram pattern all over much of its merchandise, sometimes at an absurdly large scale. So it’s not too surprising that the...

Homeowners are often advised to consider the ability to resell their house when making renovations. After all, if you make permanent changes that are too fine-tuned to your particular tastes, you might have trouble finding just the right buyer when...

Widely beloved after finding romantic love on season 14 of The Bachelorette, reality stars JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers now seek a different kind of love � one found through the design and renovation of tiny rental spaces. Since Rodgers won...

From the outside, this building in Oaxaca, Mexico looks harsh and fortress-like. It’s a monumental concrete structure with no windows in sight. In fact, all that is visible in its inscrutable facade are a few wooden doors. There’s certainly...

Ever wonder why almost all of our architecture is rectilinear" It’s mostly about ease of construction, since lumber and other building materials tend to be produced in standard dimensions. But building in straight lines and right angles doesn’t...

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 from every window, and others still are rustic cabins in the heart of serene forests. For a very...

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 largest online marketplace has millions of individual third-party sellers offering their goods to the...

This strange-looking house in Lebanon stretches down its steeply sloped site, almost looking like it’s in danger of an impending crash. Taking a radically different approach to cliffside construction than most builders, the firm DAZARCHITECTS has...

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 trademark name COR-TEN, it’s made of alloys that don’t need to be painted because their surface forms...

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 agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to keep it open, thereby forcing them to cease all...

In some areas of the U.S., people who own homes deemed “historic� are fighting local preservationists for their right to install solar panels. The reason" Panels are too ugly, according to a recent piece in The Washington Post. The owner of...

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 mainstream video game company in history, Atari has just released plans for at least eight now hotels,...

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 parts of the world, that’s still the most common scenario. But in places like the United States,...

Originating in Japan with the “Capsule Inn Osaka� by architect Kisho Kurosawa and popularized by Tokyo’s odd-looking Nagakin Capsule Hotel, the pod concept provides basic, inexpensive bed-sized “capsules� for guests who either don’t want...

Great architecture and interior design finds inspiration in innumerable places, so what better way to unleash creative thinking than by tapping into some of the most imaginative ideas on the planet" With six very specific Disney characters in...

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 Georgia Tech campus. The resulting Kendeda Building opened for classes in January 2020, providing...

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 can make a huge difference in how it looks and feels, as exemplified by a recent renovation by...

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 size of five football fields. So perhaps it’s not too surprising that they’re usually located well outside...

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 more. Major firms will be cutting the ribbons on career-defining structures, and some of them are...

Cemeteries are usually thought of as sad places � maybe even creepy ones, which says a lot about our societal relationship with death. Might our collective ability to healthily process grief and loss improve if we changed our perception, looking...

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 unusual pleasure of straddling a waterway, making the sound of the flowing water a major highlight. It’s...