The 24-Year-Old Who Built a Life-Size Spaceship He Couldn’t Visualize
Abel van Oirschot has aphantasia, which means his mind’s eye is permanently dark. No mental images, no visual memory, no ability to picture a face…
Architecture
This 368 Sq Ft Tiny Home Has a Murphy Bed, Incinerating Toilet, and More Clever Storage Than Most Apartments
Most 30-foot tiny homes feel like they’re apologizing for their size. The Smidge, a new build from Alberta-based Teacup Tiny Homes, doesn’t bother — every…
Herzog & de Meuron Just Made a 1980s Antenna Tower the Most Exciting Building in the Alps
The Titlis Tower was never meant to be beautiful. That’s what makes what Herzog & de Meuron have done with it so compelling — a…
This Hidden London Home Lives Behind a Garden Wall – And It’s Pure Genius
Just past the southeast corner of Cleaver Square in Kennington, south London, sits a weathered brick wall with a painted timber gate. From the street,…
The Burleigh 9.6 Is the Tiny Home That Proves You Don’t Have to Give Anything Up
Tiny home living has a reputation it hasn’t quite shaken — that at some point, you’re trading a real life for a smaller one. The…
A Spiderweb-Shaped Home in Japan Has No Fixed Rooms and Adapts as the Family Grows
Spiders have been building radial webs for about 100 million years, spinning silk into a geometry that spreads weight around with an efficiency engineers spent…
This Japanese-Style Pancake Shop Turns Melted Butter Into an Entire Design Language
Walk into Fuwa Fuwa Golden Square and your stomach reacts before your brain does. The ceiling curves overhead in a deep, glossy yellow that fades…
5 EV Charging Designs So Beautiful You’d Actually Want to Stop There
EV charging infrastructure has grown considerably in recent years, but the experience of actually using it rarely gives people much to think about. Most stations…
Most Homes Are Built to Last 10 Years. These 5 Designs Are Built for 100
Slow architecture asks a simple but powerful question: should buildings be designed for short-term trends or for the next hundred years? At a time when…
MVRDV Planted a Secret Valley in the Middle of a Housing Block
Most apartment buildings do their best work from the outside. A striking facade, a bold roofline, some smart use of glass and steel, and the…
Vipp’s New Catskills Pavilion Is a Sculpture You Can Sleep In
Not every building earns the word “sculptural” without some heavy editorial lifting, but the Vipp Pavilion in Upstate New York is the rare case where…
India’s Anthill House Has No AC and Stays Cool Anyway
We’ve been building houses wrong. Not structurally, not legally, and not in any way that’s easy to name. But somewhere along the line, the conversation…