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….
Architecture
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 Huge 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…
This Iconic Australian Bush House Just Hit the Market for the First Time in Over 40 Years
For the first time since its completion in 1983, one of Australia’s most architecturally significant homes is available to buy. The Ball-Eastaway House, designed by…
This Dark Timber House Disappears Into a Norwegian Forest
There’s a particular kind of restraint that’s genuinely hard to pull off in architecture. Anyone can build something that commands attention. Far fewer can build…
At Just 20 Feet Long, the Kinnakeet Tiny Home Has Everything, Including an Airbnb Income
Twenty feet doesn’t sound like much until you step inside the Kinnakeet. Built by Ohio-based custom tiny home builder Modern Tiny Living, this road-ready dwelling…
This $98,900 Tiny House Is How Australians Are Ditching Rent and Finally Owning Something
The housing crisis is not a headline anymore; it is a lived reality. Soaring property prices, relentless rent increases, and the quiet exhaustion of never…