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,…
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Tucked Between Two Ancient Stumps, This House Barely Touches the Ground — And That’s Exactly the Point
Some buildings earn their names. The Floating House by Vancouver-based SMStudio — completed in 2023 on the western ridge of Bowen Island, British Columbia —…
This 1910 Melbourne Corner Shop Is Now a Three-Story Home With a Garden as Its Front Door
For over a century, a modest corner shop at the intersection of Murray and York streets in Melbourne’s Prahran suburb sold milk, bread, and the…
This House on Lake Memphremagog Was Designed to Disappear
Most houses on a lake want you to know about it. The Counter-Slope House by Montreal-based yh2 Architecture is the opposite — perched on a…
Tetro Arquitetura’s Xingu House Turns a Complex Brazilian Hillside Into Something Extraordinary
Perched above ancient stone walls in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, the Xingu House reads less like a building and more like a geological event. Designed…
Young Projects’ Cut Out House Proves Subtraction Is the Most Powerful Tool in Architecture
Most mountain houses try too hard. Cut Out House, designed by New York-based studio Young Projects, does the opposite — it sits in the foothills…
Europe’s Largest 3D-Printed Apartment Building Just Changed Everything
Something significant happened in Bezannes, France — and the construction industry should be paying close attention. ViliaSprint², Europe’s largest 3D-printed apartment building, has been completed,…
This Carbon-Negative Neighborhood in the Netherlands Is Rethinking Affordable Housing
Architecture has long been one of the planet’s most significant contributors to carbon emissions. ORGA, a Dutch studio, is challenging that reality head-on with a…
This House in Rural India Is Actually a Bridge — and It’s Covered in Scales
Most architects would see a seven-metre-deep gorge cutting through a site and call it a problem. Vinu Daniel and his studio, Wallmakers, looked at it…
This Traditional Japanese Home Was Brought Back to Life by Opening It Up to Everything Around It
Returning home is a deeply intentional process. Not just to a place, but to a life — one shaped by memory, family, and the particular…
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…
Inside the Log-and-Glass Home Olson Kundig Built for a Builder on Salt Spring Island
Salt Spring Island doesn’t need much convincing — it already has the cliffs, the meadows, and the trees. The name sounds more like a childhood…