What Happens When You Stop Fighting the Rain and Design With It
Most architects treat rain as an obstacle. Drain it. Redirect it. Keep it away from the interior at all costs. Australian architect Steven Chu had…
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The Eames House Was Always Meant to Be Yours
If you’ve ever stood in front of a photograph of the Eames House and felt a quiet longing, you’re not alone. That black steel frame,…
Four Dark Cedar Volumes Stepping Down a Tahoe Slope — This Is What a Smart Cabin Looks Like
Most mountain cabins treat the landscape as a backdrop. Mork-Ulnes Architects’ Staggered Cabin treats it as a collaborator. Completed in the summer of 2024 and…
This Tiny House Has 30 Feet of Glass and Feels Nothing Like a Tiny House
The tiny house world has long wrestled with one unavoidable tension — the desire for light, openness, and space against the hard constraints of a…
Biomimetic Architecture Reaches New Heights With This Bird-of-Paradise Yoga Space
Biomimicry in architecture usually means borrowing structural logic from nature. Honeycomb patterns for strength, lotus leaves for water repellency, termite mounds for passive cooling. Thilina…
A 1930s French Cabin Brought Back the Pit, and It’s the Best Part
If you grew up watching old movies or flipping through your parents’ architecture magazines from the 70s, you probably remember the conversation pit. That sunken,…
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…
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…