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Nestled in Rollingwood, just west of downtown Austin, Texas, Vale House takes on a unique challenge: how to design a large family home on a compact site without losing the neighborhood’s charm. Add in a sprawling live oak tree planted...Friday, October 3, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
Hidden within the dense streets of Beijing’s Dashilar area, a red door opens onto a narrow pathway that leads to an unexpected revelation, the “Twisting Courtyard,” a historic Siheyuan renovated by Han Wen-Qiang, founder and principal...Thursday, October 2, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
Influencer couple changed their original scheme and will plant a native beech forest.Thursday, October 2, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
Boston-based Flavin Architects have created the Eastern Point Retreat, a modern addition to a historic Gloucester, Massachusetts property. Set alongside a lap pool and hot tub, the guest house is designed as both a functional living...Thursday, October 2, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Over a decade, Ian James captured an array of pyramid structures across 20 US states, now documented in a new book On a summer afternoon in 2017, Los Angeles-based artist Ian James found himself at the Pain Reliever Bar & Grill, the...Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
Sometimes the hardest sites create the most inventive designs. That was the case for this narrow, 21 foot (6.5m) wide terrace in Melbourne, Australia. With neighboring walls pressed against both sides, a heritage facade that had to...Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Eyesores and scandalously unsafe? Or utopian housing for the working classes? Here are the stories and scandals behind some of the UK’s most revolutionary homes ‘There is nothing, it seems to me, more appalling, more deadening in the...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
Australian firm Clare Cousins Architects were asked to design a small but striking garden pavilion at the rear of an Edwardian cottage. The brief was simple yet challenging: create an extension that maximizes the exposure of a compact,...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
In the quiet suburb of Templestowe, Australia, FIGR Architecture & Design have created a home that feels both contemporary and deeply connected to its context. Known as the Courtyard House, this project takes cues from the Italian...Tuesday, September 30, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Influential postmodern British architect best known for the MI6 building on the Thames Terry Farrell, who has died aged 87, was arguably the most influential and prolific of the architects associated with the British postmodern movement....Monday, September 29, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
From the ziggurats of the MI6 HQ to TV-am’s eggcups and a Hong Kong tower that featured on a banknote, Farrell strived to make uplifting architecture • ‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building dies – news • Spies, eggcups and...Monday, September 29, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
MU Architecture have designed a multi-level home tucked into the lush landscape of the Laurentians in Quebec, Canada. Perched on a rocky crest that slopes into the lake, the house reveals itself slowly, its volumes emerging from the...Monday, September 29, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
Architecture firm MUSK Studio brought new life to an old idea with the Coppin Street Apartments in Richmond, Melbourne. Nicknamed the “Richmond six-pack,” the project re-imagines the classic mid-century walk-up apartments that once...Monday, September 29, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Sir Terry Farrell, the UK’s leading architect-planner and postmodernist, has died aged 87 • ‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building dies – news Continue reading...Monday, September 29, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Farrell was a key member of the hi-tech movement of the 1980s and 90s, with buildings including the TV-am studios and Embankment Place in London, and the Deep in Hull Sir Terry Farrell, the “nonconformist” architect and planner, whose...Monday, September 29, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creations A colossal cliff of...Monday, September 29, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
The garden will display 12 bronze sculptures by Pablo Picasso.Sunday, September 28, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
When architects design for clients, the process is often deeply personal. But when architects design for themselves, it becomes even more meaningful. Husband-and-wife team Mick and Jules Moloney of Moloney Architects completed an...Sunday, September 28, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
In the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains, a familiar rural form has been reimagined into something new. Birdseye Design’s Woodshed is a guest house and entertainment space, a contemporary take on the iconic woodshed crafted with...Friday, September 26, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
The NSW Housing Pattern Book is part of a broader push to densify cities without resorting to high-rise towers – and it has struck a chord well beyond Australia An Australian government faced with a housing crisis has launched an...Wednesday, September 24, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
Kongjian Yu, 62, pioneered 'sponge cities' to combat urban flooding.Wednesday, September 24, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
The 62-year-old Chinese landscape architect was killed with three others while filming in the Pantanal wetlands Kongjian Yu , one of the world’s most famous landscape architects, has reportedly been killed in a plane crash in...Monday, September 22, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
The Strand apartments are to be four blocks, up to 10 levels high, facing the waterfront.Monday, September 22, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
By working together, an iwi collective and a Pākehā developer are yielding big results.Sunday, September 21, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
'Sales value will be released at time of settlement.' - Auckland Council's Allan Young.Sunday, September 21, 2025 from Life of an Architect
It’s one thing to be busy and another to be productive – and most of us are far better at the first than the second. The reality is that architects live in a world of deadlines, meetings, and endless to-do lists, but somehow there’s...Friday, September 19, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
When architects design their own houses – with no client to please but themselves – the results are clever, creative and considered. In new book The Architect’s House , author Stephen Crafti explores how architects around the world build...Friday, September 19, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
The great kinetic artist has never been properly celebrated in his home town of Philadelphia – until now. But is a $90m subterranean labyrinth, created by Herzog & de Meuron, really the answer? A shimmering metallic wall slices...Friday, September 19, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
In the city of Tarim, colourful mansions built by the city’s merchants are being knocked down as the war-torn nation cannot afford to maintain them Words and photographs by Saeed al-Batati in Tarim When the bulldozers moved into Abdul...Thursday, September 18, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
A castle that inspired Dylan Thomas, a former cinema where the Beatles played or Tom Cruise’s filmic legacy are all hidden gems available for a sneak peek – for one day only September: it’s the month of the harvest moon (usually);...Thursday, September 18, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Six experts respond to Labor’s plans for agriculture, resources, the built environment, industry, transport and energy. What did it get right and what more needs to be done? Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free...Thursday, September 18, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
'Only genuine old houses built of native timbers are the real thing': Margot McRaeWednesday, September 17, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Architect known for the exposed structures of his buildings and the geodesic domes of the Eden Project Of all the so-called “high tech” architects who began their careers in the London of the 1960s, Nicholas Grimshaw , who has died aged...Tuesday, September 16, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
Other developers were having a hard time 'because their homes are absolutely awful'.Tuesday, September 16, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Slick factories, muscular supermarkets, canalside pods … we celebrate the finest works of the revered architect, famed for designing the Eden Project in Cornwall but responsible for many more stunning buildings Geodesic genius: Nicholas...Tuesday, September 16, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
As well as the Eden Project, Grimshaw’s ambitious and audacious work on railway stations, airports, sports complexes and supermarkets could elevate even the most mundane experience • Eden Project architect Nicholas Grimshaw dies aged 85...Monday, September 15, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
Boston says greening all 8000 shelters would add 7ha of green space.Monday, September 15, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Groundbreaking designs included the original Eurostar terminal in London and the Financial Times’s Printworks The architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, who designed the Eden Project in Cornwall and the original Eurostar terminal at Waterloo...Sunday, September 14, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
He is investing more than £1b to build a vast research campus in Oxford.Saturday, September 13, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Hopwood DePree has been leading efforts to renovate Grade II* listed Hopwood Hall in Middleton since 2017 It was a story fit for the pages of a Hollywood screenplay, with a California actor moving to a town in north Manchester to restore...‘Our hallway’s big enough to play football in!’ The council housing that feels like a holiday resort
Thursday, September 11, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
Boasting two-sink kitchens, London’s Tower Court is the UK’s first project tailored for the Haredi Jewish community – but its generous proportions and outside space for religious observance are a boon for all residents The intricacies of...Sunday, September 7, 2025 from Life of an Architect
The Architect as Brand explores how personal reputation and firm identity collide, coexist, and shape modern architectural practice. The post Ep 184: The Architect as Brand first appeared on Life of an Architect . Continue reading Ep...Sunday, August 24, 2025 from Life of an Architect
Architectural career tips meet life lessons in a conversation about balancing professional success with being a genuinely good person. This is Tips for being an Architect and a Good Person. The post Ep 183: Tips for being an Architect...Sunday, August 10, 2025 from Life of an Architect
Discover how AI tools are transforming architecture, from design and research to workflow efficiency, and shaping the future of practice. The post Ep 182: How AI is Changing Architecture first appeared on Life of an Architect . Continue...Tuesday, October 15, 2024 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
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Evolving urban conditions call for an evolving builtscape, and retrofits have been a key mechanism to allow buildings to adapt and respond to new needs. Amidst global environmental concerns, climate retrofits have become a popular...Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
The geometry of a narrow house is settled within a few lines. The intervention happens both in plan projection and in section. Curved walls are intersected with sinuous ceiling resulting in a space that is not static. In the evening,...Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
Architect David Montalba was born in Switzerland but grew up in California. He became a passionate surfer, bobbing in the waves of the Pacific, staring at the land, yet always feeling and hearing the ocean around him; profoundly...Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
In preparation for the city of Asturias , Spain , to become one of the hosts of the FIFA World Cup in 2030 , the El Molinón stadium is proposed to undergo a major remodeling process. Home Real Sporting de Gijón , the stadium is...Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
The new townhouse on the centrally located Kornmarktplatz in Bregenz is intended to make an independent contribution to the cultural and public life of the city on Lake Constance.