What It Was Like to Live Inside Habitat 67
When Moshe Safdie started sketching out his ideas for a prefabricated housing development back in the...
Thailand Creates Technology That Decomposes Plastic Bags in Weeks
Thanks to both innovation and investment—and a little help from the local flora—Thailand is embracin...
Studio Gang Completes a Series of Stylish New Buildings for the University of Chicago
Students at the University of Chicago returned this fall to find a brand-new architectural treat: St...
Architectural Stands Designed by Sir John Soane Are Reproduced by Jonathan Burden Gallery
What’s hundreds of years old and looks like it was made only yesterday? The answer to that is almost...
Thomas Heatherwick Is the Winner of a Design Award at BritWeek
Break out the tea and crumpets. It’s time once again for BritWeek in Los Angeles, the annual creativ...
How Midcentury Architect Gregory Ain Mixed Social Responsibility With Great Design
Many architects pay lip service to the idea that good design can and should ennoble the lives of ave...
Romancing History
dam-images-architects-2006-12-buatta-arsl01_buatta.jpgThe 98-room Carolands, a private house constructed...
First Lady Michelle Obama Speaks at the Dedication of the new Whitney Museum of American Art
This morning the ribbon was cut on the Whitney Museum of American Art’s spectacular new home: the 22...
Inside the Surprising Innovations of Sustainable Garden Design
As in real estate, so in sustainable landscape architecture: Location is everything. A successful coastal...
These Homes Feature the Best Plants for a Desert Landscape
Throughout the years, Architectural Digest has featured diverse landscapes—including manicured lawn...
Rafael Viñoly’s 20 Fenchurch Street Welcomes A Lush Sky Garden
Less than a year after its completion, London’s towering 20 Fenchurch Street—nicknamed the Walkie-Ta...
Dallas’s modernist masterpieces are celebrated in a new book
Despite the romantic allure of the hackneyed Dallas caricature—ten-gallon hats, big hair, oil derric...
Joanne de Guardiola
dam-images-architects-2000-09-deguardiola-arsl01_deguardiola.jpg"It's an eclectic mix of old and new...
5 Tips for Creating a Luxurious, Drought-Resistant Garden
Back in the 1970s, long before it was necessary for Californians to plant drought-resistant lawns, a...
A Guide to Creating Innovative Outdoor Spaces
dam-images-books-2015-outside-living-outside-living-francesc-zamora-mola-01.jpgThe forthcoming volume...
Get an Inside Look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Desert Shelters
Tucked away in the scenic McDowell Mountains near Scottsdale, Arizona, Taliesin West was, beginning...
A Sleek New Set of Five Limited-Edition Monographs About Jean Prouvé Debuts
Long before there were ModPods and tiny houses, there was Jean Prouvé—the innovative French architec...
The Walker Art Center Plans a $75 Million Renovation for Its 75th Anniversary
In 1940, with funding from the 1939 Works Projects Administration, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis...
A Look at the Life of America’s Most Important Contemporary Woodworker
The designer George Nakashima was fond of saying that he kept some pieces of wood in his studio for...
Links We Love – What We’re Reading This Week—January 23, 2015
1. Curbed features 12 images by photographer Christian Richter of stunning staircases from abandoned...