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Rammed Earth-Inspired Concept House Looks Like a Rocky Formation in the Desert

In the remote landscape of the Utah desert, architecture blends seamlessly with geology. This is epitomized by the conceptual Desert Observatory House, a dwelling that appears to emerge directly from the earth. Designed by the firm Vrantsi, the project features low,…
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Michael Shannon Can’t Stop Touching His Walls…

Michael Shannon shares one of the most unexpected details in his NYC apartment–his incredibly soft Venetian plaster walls. Feeling inspired? Subscribe to AD and get a free tote with your subscription! → https://bit.ly/4jBCUMl Still haven’t subscribed to Architectural Digest on…
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this home in korea is shaped by twin timber gables atop a concrete base

A house set between field and forest In Hoengseong, South Korea, BRBB Architects’ Shin-Dae-Ri House is positioned between a cultivated foreground and a wooded slope, and stands as a transition from village to mountain life. Designed for an elderly couple…
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Welcome to Walton Goggins’ Home

Walton Goggins welcomes Architectural Digest into his 1920s woodland lodge. #WaltonGoggins #CelebrityHome #OpenDoor #HouseTour #ArchitecturalDigest Read another article:Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ BlueprintsFeeling inspired? Subscribe to AD and get a free tote with your subscription! → https://bit.ly/4jBCUMl Still…
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Casa Milà: Antoni Gaudí’s Residential Building in Barcelona That Became a Modernist Masterpiece

Photo: ©Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera Barcelona was architect Antoni Gaudí’s creative playground. From the ornate narrative elements of Sagrada Familia to the playful underwater theme of Casa Batlló, he expressed his unique vision as one with a deep admiration for…
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F5: Barry Ginder on a Finn Juhl Chair, Sean Scully, His Son’s Hands + More

When Pennsylvanian Barry Ginder was an architecture student at Temple University his art professor, Larry Spaid, influenced how he would eventually approach his own pieces. “He taught me a method of working the full surface repeatedly, and then refining the…
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Michael Shannon’s 50th Birthday Present Was an Apple 🍎

Michael Shannon shares the story behind one of his favorite possessions–a surprisingly heavy marble apple he picked up in Florence, Italy, for his 50th birthday. #MichaelShannon #ArchitecturalDigest #CelebrityHomes Read another article:Botany as an Artistic Practice: Anna Atkins’ BlueprintsFeeling inspired? Subscribe…
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Lulla House

Lulla House is a minimalist residence located in Kamakura, Japan, designed by I IN. Positioned directly on the beachfront in Kamakura, this three-storey weekend house doubles as both a private retreat and the home of its owner’s fashion brand. I…
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Lucky You, You’re in Michael Shannon’s Bedroom

Michael Shannon gives a glimpse inside his bedroom–and the real star is the ceiling. Inspired by Turkish rugs collected by his grandmother, this intricate hand-painted mural took serious craftsmanship (think Sistine Chapel-level detail). #ArchitecturalDigest #MichaelShannon #CelebrityHomes #InteriorDesign Read another article:Botany…
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You Can Spend the Night Surrounded by 350 Birdhouses at Sweden’s Treehotel

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met and Manager of My Modern Met Store. She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned her BFA in Illustration and MFA in Illustration Practice.…
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Amangiri Unveils Its First Six-Bedroom Villa in Utah’s Canyon Country

Branded residences have become the luxury hotel industry’s favorite revenue strategy. Most of these projects share a familiar formula—take a glass tower in a growing luxury market, attach a name that travelers recognize, furnish it to a standard that photographs…
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Reused Shipping Containers Form A Flexible Workplace in Spain

An agricultural business has different requirements than a typical corporation centered in an urban setting. This can present a unique set of challenges to designers when they envision an alignment of operations and staff in headquarters that support a range…
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Leibal — Casa GA

Casa GA is a minimalist residence located in Gazzo Bigarello, Italy, designed by Archiplan Studio. The Po Valley has long been defined by an architecture of plainness – farm buildings, granaries, and rural shelters reduced to their most essential geometric…
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The Trim House by KWK Promes Splits the Difference

When KWK Promes was invited to submit a concept for a house in Vilnius, Lithuania, the parameters might have sounded like an architect’s dream: Here was a private client selecting a firm via competition to envision a home on a…
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The Brooklyn Museum’s African Art Collection Is About To Get a Major Upgrade

Rendering of the Brooklyn Museum’s new Arts of Africa Galleries. (Photo: Peterson Rich Office) Since it began collecting African art in the early 20th century, the Brooklyn Museum has accumulated more than 4,500 pieces from across the continent. All told,…
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Walton Goggins Always Needs Somewhere to Sit

Walton Goggins is a firm believer in never being more than 4 feet away from a place to sit, and that is exactly what he’s done in his own home. #WaltonGoggins #ArchitecturalDigest #OpenDoor Read another article:Botany as an Artistic Practice:…
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Bill Kaulitz’s Frank Lloyd Wright Home Is a Dream

Bill Kaulitz welcomes Architectural Digest into his California home–an architectural gem originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed by his son. Feeling inspired? Subscribe to AD and get a free tote with your subscription! → https://bit.ly/4jBCUMl Still haven’t subscribed…
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Ravi Raj Restores a Century-Old Croton-on-Hudson Residence

The stone houses of Westchester’s early 20th-century neighborhoods carry a particular material candor – their masonry is pulled from the same geological bed as the landscape around them, their permanence a direct expression of the region’s character. Ravi Raj’s renovation…