SOM’s New Kazakhstan Towers Look Like a Sci-Fi Set. They’re Not.
Kazakhstan is building a new city, and it just got a centerpiece worthy of the ambition. On March 5, 2026, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill unveiled…
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The Ping Pong Tables at This French School Have No Rules
Most of us learned to play ping pong the same way: flat table, net in the middle, bounce, smash, repeat. The rules were never really…
The Erica by Craft House Is the Tiny Home That Thinks Vertically
Tiny living has always been a negotiation. You trade square footage for freedom, density for mobility, and somewhere in that exchange, comfort usually takes the…
The Most Creative Public Space Design Right Now Is Made of Trash
The first time I saw images of Concrete Utopia, I assumed it was a render. The kind of thing that circulates on design Instagram before…
Irontown Modular Built a Tiny Cabin With Vaulted Ceilings & Warm Wood Walls for Under $50K
Two hundred square feet sounds like a limitation until you actually see what Irontown Modular did with it. The Sledhaus 200, the latest park model…
This Finnish Professor Built His Family Home From Old Tires and Fishing Nets
Most architects study sustainable housing. Matti Kuittinen actually lives in it. The Aalto University professor and architect didn’t just design the Tiny House Shadow as…
This Red House Buried in a Czech Forest Is the Opposite of Every Forest Home You’ve Ever Seen
Deep in the spruce forests of Jevany, a municipality of barely 800 people in the Czech Republic’s Central Bohemian Region, a flash of cherry red…
The Philosopher Wanted Silence. The Artist Built on Water.
In 1914, Ludwig Wittgenstein did something that, depending on your perspective, was either the most logical or the most eccentric thing a Cambridge-trained philosopher could…
A Restaurant in China Where Wood Behaves Like a Forest
The first thing you notice about the Lakeside Restaurant at Silk Road Friendship Park in Dingzhou, China, is that the building doesn’t announce itself. It…
The Brazilian House That Turns a Hillside Into a Feature
Most architects, when faced with a steeply sloping lot, treat the terrain like a problem to solve. Something to flatten, fill, or work around. Frederico…
Mud, Microbes, and the 46 m² Lab the Amazon Needed
Most of us picture a laboratory as a sleek, sterile box of steel and glass perched on a university campus or inside some tech park….
Rewild Homes Built a Tiny House That Actually Works for a Growing Family
The idea that tiny living demands sacrifice is one that the Starling quietly dismantles. Built by Rewild Homes out of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, British…