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This Compact House Was Designed by Removing Pieces

Casa Delães looks simple at first: a compact white volume, almost cubic, with a clean and quiet presence. But the most interesting part of this house is not the box itself. It is what was removed from it. Read another…
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Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens Are an Altar to Art, Whimsy, and Community [Interview]

Philadelphia is known for its scrappy, authentic spirit. And out of its many cultural institutions, no place captures it quite like Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens. Created by artist Isaiah Zagar, this unique space is a sprawling environment covered in a myriad…
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photo series distorts manhattan’s cityscape through fractured glass reflections

Navid Baraty sees Glass Facades as Systems of Visual Reflection Hidden City by photographer Navid Baraty explores Manhattan through a photographic study of reflection, capturing how glass facades transform the city into layered and fragmented compositions where architecture, geometry, and…
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Walmart and Home Depot Are Selling Affordable Tiny Home Kits You Can Buy Under $56K

A real house for the price of a used Honda. Walmart and Home Depot are quietly selling them right now — some arrive ready to live in, others show up as a kit on a flatbed. And almost nobody’s talking…
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Touring a 2 Story Prefab Kit House! #hometour

Touring the System 2 from Backcountry Hut Company. This is a 2 bedroom 1.5 bathroom prefab home near Haliburton, Ontario. Click the link below to see the full tour: https://youtu.be/5s7G69uMCI0 Read another article:Design Trends for Creating a Vacation Vibe at…
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This House Makes You Cross the Hill

This house begins with a problem: a steep site, a 13-meter climb between the street and the level of the house. Casa Castela, by BIRI, in Nova Lima, Brazil, turns that difficult terrain into the most memorable part of the…
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F5: Xiao Lin Talks a Stone Seal, Mala Bracelet, Incense + More

Xiao Lin spent her formative years in the United States and China, and some of her most cherished memories are those rooted in place, from the front door of the family home to the rooms inside. “I remember the kitchen…
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Inside a Hidden Sydney Modern Sanctuary (House Tour)

Inside a hidden Sydney modern sanctuary, House Within by Panov—Scott reimagines an existing childhood home as a private, light-filled retreat embedded within a walled garden. Located in Sydney, the home is shaped by a considered balance between enclosure and openness,…
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Inside the STUNNING 2 Storey Prefab Cabin Built from a Kit!

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A Tokyo Building Offers an Elegant Answer to Urban Compression

On an 880-square-foot site in Toshima City—roughly the size of a generous one-bedroom apartment—Key Operation Inc. / Architects has produced a building that contains shops, clinics, cafés, maisonette residences, a curved atrium, a bouldering wall, a slide, and a hammock…
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This Puglia Villa Was Designed Around What Is Missing

At first, it looks like a simple white villa in southern Italy, but the real idea is in the space between the two houses. Villa Normanni Puglia, by Urban Interior, reinterprets the traditional architecture of Puglia through white lime walls,…
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Refined Yet Rugged, One&Only Moonlight Basin Nestles Between Big Sky’s Peaks

Unfolding across a vast site deep within Montana’s 3-million-acre Gallatin National Forest, One&Only Moonlight is a full-service, alpine-style resort comprehensively imagined by renowned architect Tom Kundig (cofounder of globally recognized practice Olson Kundig). Materials specific to the region and subtle…
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Architects Reimagine a Lost Belgian Abbey as a Transparent Steel Cathedral

For centuries, the church at Herkenrode Abbey stood as one of Belgium’s most important religious landmarks. The Gothic structure formed the heart of a wealthy Cistercian abbey near Hasselt before war, fire, and demolition erased it from the landscape. Today,…
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Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ Is Getting Its Own Building in Major Redesign for the Louvre

Photo: bloodua/Depositphotos For decades, seeing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum has meant navigating packed crowds, lifting a phone above hundreds of visitors, and catching only a brief glimpse of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous portrait. Now, the world’s most…
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PILLS lets soft cloud-like structure drift above china using inflatable membrane technology

PILLS transforms a floating cloud into a symbolic gateway Chinese design studio PILLS realizes a monumental floating cloud installation, standing at the entrance of Dongguan’s MIXC VILLAGE development in the Binhai Bay New Area. Commissioned by China Resources Land as…
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This Restaurant in Atlanta Celebrates Italian Cuisine and Culture

Italian food is unlike any other, and when it’s shared with others, it is savored even more. The cuisine is so special that UNESCO designated it as an intangible cultural heritage, recognizing not only the cuisine but also the conviviality…
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An Architect’s Own Black Cabin Hidden in the Idaho Woods (Cabin Tour)

An architect’s own black cabin hidden in the Idaho woods is a deeply personal exploration of architecture, landscape and retreat. Located in McCall, Idaho, Overlook by Altruist emerges from within Ponderosa pines as a striking yet sensitive response to its…
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Photographer Compiles Thousands of Photos to Meticulously Document Europe’s Churches

“Wells Cathedral Church of St. Andrews,” 2015-2016, archival pigment print, 54 5/16 inches x 66 1/8 inches. © Markus Brunetti. Courtesy Yossi Milo, New York. For more than two decades, German photographer Markus Brunetti has pursued a project that feels…