An Iranian Villa Built Around Architecture’s Oldest Shape
The gabled roof is one of the oldest tricks in architecture’s playbook. Pitched, familiar, and about as dramatic as a grammar school diagram, it’s the…
Architecture
The Robots That Built Seoul’s Robot Museum
The Seoul Robot & AI Museum is the definitive parametric architecture reference of 2026, and it’s easy to understand why the design world keeps returning…
This Oregon Tiny Home Has a Freestanding Bathtub and More Storage Than You’d Ever Expect
Some tiny homes ask you to settle. Cramped kitchens, awkward layouts, a bathroom you have to apologize for. The Black Butte by Spindrift Homes is…
Quito’s New Skyscraper Feels Carved, Planted, and Lived In
Can’t help but notice something quietly interesting about Qapital, the new residential skyscraper designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates for Quito, Ecuador. At first glance,…
This Australian Tiny Home Has Two Bedrooms, a Picture Window, and Zero Compromises
The Byron Bay by Removed Tiny Homes is not that version. Built by the Brisbane-based builder that has quietly become one of Australia’s most talked…
A Pour-Over Dripper Inspired One of Beijing’s Best Pop-Ups
Pop-ups have become one of the more interesting testing grounds for design ambition. They exist long enough to make a statement but not so long…
Four Meters by Four Meters: How Tadao Ando Made Constraint Beautiful
Perched on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea in Tarumi-ku, Kobe, the 4×4 House by Tadao Ando occupies a narrow coastal strip that Japanese…
This Architect Built a 20m² Red Cabin on Her Family’s Greek Vineyard — and It’s the Antidote to Every Concrete Villa on the Island
Somewhere between the olive groves and vine rows of Zakynthos, a deep-red timber cabin sits quietly in the Greek countryside, and it’s one of the…
This $35,000 Tiny Home Proves You Don’t Need More Than 161 Square Feet to Live Well
At 20 feet long and 8 feet wide, the Tulsi by Simplify Further Tiny Homes doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t. It has everything…
UNStudio’s Wasl Tower Is Dubai’s Most Sculptural Skyscraper Yet
There’s a building rising on Sheikh Zayed Road that isn’t trying to be the tallest thing in the room — it’s trying to be the…
MAD Just Opened a 46,000 sqm Silver Cloud Museum in China
When we covered the Hainan Science Museum back in 2024, it was still a promise on renderings. The images showed a billowing silver form rising…
Sydney Just Opened a 42-Metre Steel Lookout Over a Former Quarry
If you told me a 42-metre platform made of weathering steel, suspended over a former rock quarry, would be one of the most compelling pieces…