A House In Ecuador That Climbs the Land Instead of Changing It
You approach La Miradora by moving uphill. The house sits at the highest point of a long plot in Ecuador’s central highlands, and from the…
Architecture
Decathlon’s Betty Tiny Home Proves You Don’t Have to Sacrifice Comfort for the Open Road
Tiny house living often demands tough trade-offs between mobility and livability, but Decathlon Tiny Homes aims to strike an appealing balance with its latest model,…
5 Solar Panel Designs So Beautiful You’d Never Know They’re Generating Power
A quiet revolution is reshaping the future of sustainable architecture. Instead of treating buildings merely as energy-saving shells, designers are now turning them into active…
5 Floating Designs That Look Like Photoshop (But They’re Real)
Floating design is a product-led architectural approach that prioritizes spatial freedom and visual continuity. By lifting elements from the ground, spatial and product design achieves…
MIT Finally Built the House Your Great-Grandkids Will Inherit
Most things we buy today are quietly built to fail. Your phone will slow down in two years. Your flat-pack furniture will wobble in five….
A Forgotten Modernist’s Sonoma Masterpiece Finally Gets the Restoration It Deserved
Tucked into the rolling hills of Glen Ellen in Sonoma County, a 14-acre estate carries the kind of stillness that most people spend a lifetime…
This Self-Sustaining Building in China Grows Food on Every Floor, And It Was Built On A Farmland Plot
China loses farmland to urbanization at a pace that makes most planners nervous, and the usual architectural response is to pour a slab and move…
This 12-Foot Mirrored Cone Turns Desert Sand Into Living Art
Picture a tall mirrored cone rising from a circle of sand in the middle of the desert. You step in, drag your feet, draw patterns,…
This New London Café Has a Ceiling Inspired by St Paul’s Dome, and It Sits Right on the Thames
The stretch of the Thames running between Tate Modern and St Paul’s is one of those London views that never quite loses its effect —…
The $5 Billion Sphere That Wants to Put the Moon in Your Backyard
A proposal to simulate the experience of standing on the Moon inside a giant spherical structure once captured imaginations before quietly disappearing. That concept never…
5 Reasons Modern Treehouses Just Became the Ultimate Luxury Escape
Treehouses have re-emerged not as nostalgic artifacts, but as serious architectural propositions. Within contemporary practice, they are understood as a distilled form of biophilic thinking…
New 2 World Trade Center Will Rise 1,226 Feet Over Manhattan, Finally Completing the Post-9/11 Rebuild
It has been almost 25 years since the September 11 attacks forever changed the skyline of Lower Manhattan, and now the rebuilding of the World…