Architecture
Pursuing Perfection: 8 Glass Boxes With Beautiful Detailing
Sometimes, thinking outside the box requires looking right through it. Grounding architecture, pure forms and geometry structure ideas on space, sequence and light. Architects and designers use shapes like triangles and squares as building blocks to larger concepts. As one of the most fundamental …
DesignSolving Salk’s mystery
How scientists lifted the shadow from Louis Kahn's most famous building<p>Situated high on a bluff outside San Diego, a perfectly symmetrical canyon of raw concrete rises four stories from a travertine plaza. Down its center, a stream—known as the “channel of life”—traces a path that appears to vanish …
U.S. Department of Agriculture5 cool buildings that will make you rethink brick
A whole new world with a very old material<p>Brick may be one of the oldest building materials around, but it deserves to be looked at with fresh eyes. Using computer software, and in some cases, even robots, architects today are deploying brick in inventive ways: perforated, pixelated, undulating, …
Ron Rojas House / Rene Gonzalez Architect
<i>From the architect.</i> The Key Biscayne Residence developed in response to its sub-tropical island environment. Pools are the principle, and …
7 of the Most Iconic Pieces of American Architecture
Skyscrapers, museums, concert halls, desert homes and more.<p>Iconic American architecture doesn't fit neatly in a box. Everything from cloud-scraping skyscrapers to flowing museums fit the bill —and those are both in the same city. Of course the are some fantastic historical pieces to look at but …
Frank Lloyd WrightMartis Camp Residence 1
On a down-sloping wooded site in Martis Valley, this home carves a serpentine form in the topography that simultaneously provides privacy toward the street while opening towards expansive meadow and Pacific Crest mountain views beyond. The primary forms are sited to create a seamless blending of …
DesignFacebook Is Celebrating Its Astonishing Two Billion Users With a New Video. Here’s What It Means for Art.
Politics<p>The social media giant gives you a customized celebration of empathy that is really a celebration of narcissism.<p>,<p>Facebook has hit two billion …
Herzog & de Meuron'Hansel and Gretel': Charlie Rose
On "Charlie Rose," a conversation with architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, and the artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. Their newest …
Herzog & de MeuronKengo Kuma reveals plant-covered Eco-Luxury Hotel for Paris
Plants will spill out between the overlapping wooden blocks that make up the facade of this hotel, which Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled for a …
Herzog & de MeuronSwiss architect Peter Zumthor wins German architecture prize
His award-winning designs include the Therme in Vals, the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Kolumba art museum in Cologne. Peter Zumthor is the first foreign …
The bizarre and controversial 'Flintstones House' reportedly sold for $2.8 million
In May, after several years on the market, a unique house situated in the affluent town of Hillsborough, California, finally found a buyer.<p>We now know, thanks to Curbed SF, exactly how much the new owner ended up paying for it: $2.8 million.<p>Known by Bay Area locals as the "Flintstones House" for …
BusinessRichard and Su Rogers's Wimbledon House Photographed by Iwan Baan
Following extensive renovations led by Philip Gumuchdjian and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, 'Wimbledon House'—formerly known as the …
HarvardMassive former silo transformed into concrete apartments in Copenhagen
COBE Architects wrapped the concrete building in a steel facade that acts as a climate screen<p>A 17-story grain silo has been transformed into a striking apartment building complex in Copenhagen. Designed by Danish practice COBE Architects (who also created the Krøyers Plads buildings here), the …
LoftsThe World’s Biggest Airport Will Open in 2019
The airport will cost $12 billion.<p>Beijing's new airport is set to be the world’s biggest, according to Reuters.<p>The Beijing New Airport, opening in …
TravelEthereal bubble building pops up in the middle of a Dutch forest
This gigantic bubble tucked in the middle of a forest may look like something out of a fairy tale, but it’s actually a gorgeous performance space in …
LifestyleAn illuminated swimming pool is the centrepiece of this stunning U-shaped house
This award-winning property boasts minimalist elegance.<p><b>The central feature of this sophisticated home, situated in the quiet hamlet of Sheepway near</b> …
Swimming PoolThe EY Centre
At the heart of this project is both workplace design and city making. We have sought to make a building that reinterprets and honours the uniqueness and history of this place, positioned at the edge of Sydney’s Tank-Stream (the first water source of the colony of New South Wales). We envisaged a …
DesignCheck Out The World’s Trippiest Hotel Atriums
Post-modern architect John Portman designed dramatic, vertigo-inducing interiors. Here are eight of the most stunning.<p>Saying someone is “ahead of his time” is typically regarded as a compliment. But in the case of post-modern architect John Portman, it’s somewhat backhanded: many of his buildings …
james kerwin's photographic series showcases the forgotten churches of europe
<b>‘domum dei’, meaning house of god in latin, is the third abandoned architecture photo series by british fine art photographer james kerwin.</b> in this …
ArtA Bauhaus home that seriously wows!
If you have a penchant for more unusual architecture, then you are going to be totally bowled over by the intricate lines, bold shapes and amazing …
Interior DesignHow Buffalo turned architectural heritage into an engine for reinvention
Visitors can marvel at architectural gems, see ace adaptive reuse, and drink beer brewed inside a grain silo<p>During a visit to Buffalo, New York, last week, I was told that it was the easternmost Midwestern city. Which, based on a tour of its architecture and historic buildings, seemed like an …
Frank Lloyd WrightLong Island City’s thousands of incoming apartments, mapped - Curbed NY
Long Island City is changing at a rapid clip—so fast, in fact, that a recent study found that the once-industrial neighborhood has given rise to more new apartments since 2010 than any other neighborhood in the country. The exact number of incoming apartments is a little hard to pin down, and …
Long IslandAmazing House in Surat, India
The architectural firm Design work group has just realized a residence in the city of Surat in western India. This building has many peculiarities, …
DesignA stunning 19th century chapel converted into an unbelievably glamorous home
This glorious chapel conversion in the beautiful Yorkshire city of Harrogate is a testament to the vision of the architect and the workmen who …
Lifestyle (UK)Harry Connick Jr. mansion hits the market for $7.5 million
NEW CANAAN, Conn. — Renaissance man Harry Connick Jr. and his wife Jill Goodacre Connick, used the same level of talent and work ethic he brings to his music and other professional endeavors, and the same level of grace she brought to fashion runways as a professional model, and their combined …
HousesEast Hampton cottage with ‘magical gardens’ asking $1.35M
Three bedrooms and two baths in 1,675 sq. ft.<p>A shingled cottage on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton just came on the market for $1.35 million with listing agent Joseph Macal of Sotheby’s International Realty.<p>The property includes a 1,675-square-foot structure and what the listing describes as …
HamptonsStefano Boeri designs "vertical forest" city to eat up China's smog
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a city near China's Liuzhou, featuring towers completely covered in trees and plants to combat …
DesignA pre-renovation glimpse inside Chicago’s abandoned Consumer & Century buildings
The vintage high-rises at 220 S. State Street and 202 S. State Street will see new life as 429 apartments<p>A pair of empty Loop office buildings that have long been in the hands of the federal government’s General Services Administration (GSA) are poised for a major renovation. Located at 220 S. …
The CityMiami Beach Mediterranean villa for $2.8M
Built in 1920<p>A unique Mediterranean villa on Pine Tree Drive in Miami Beach has returned to the market for $2.8 million, less than a year after selling for $2.45 million in October 2016.<p>The five-bedroom home has 3,226 square feet of living space, four bathrooms, and a Moroccan-style interior, per …
MiamiA white and wood home that is oh so good!
It's no secret that white and wood is a combination that ALWAYS looks good, but today, we are going to show you a modernist home that takes things to …
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