Author: MyProperty Life

The Stacks beside the stream. (Photo: Arch Exist) Nestled in the lush mountain valleys of the Nanchuan District, near Chongqing in southwestern China, is a stack of rocks. Evergreen trees tower above the stones, while a stream gently snakes beside…

Modernist architects may often have touted that form follows function, but Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned that this was a phrase prone to being misunderstood. “Form and function should be one,” he once clarified, “joined in a spiritual union.” That “spiritual…

ITSUMO Dessert Shop Redefines Commercial Typology in Batam The ITSUMO Dessert Shop in Batam, Indonesia, designed by kousou inc. Jakarta, in collaboration with Svetlin Petrov, represents an architectural intervention within the typical ruko (shop-house) typology of the city’s commercial areas.…

Last year, more than 21 million tourists passed through Rome—and many of them undoubtedly paid a visit to the Trevi Fountain. At 86 feet high and 161 feet wide, it stands as the city’s largest Baroque fountain, and one of…

Photo: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Nestled in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains in the Sonoran Desert sits an architectural gem designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Known as Taliesin West, the pioneering architect saw it as his desert laboratory. There,…