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This Art Nouveau Hotel in Mexico City Has One of the Most Beautiful Lobbies in the World

Photo: Nan Palmero via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Art Nouveau is alive and well in Mexico City. To travel in time and step into this lavish architectural style, you just need to visit the Gran Hotel de la Ciudad…
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Among the Cactus Ribs | Desert Fairways Residence

Set in the Arizona desert, Desert Fairways Residence blends low, grounded forms with dynamic metal planes and earthy textures. Surrounded by native vegetation and framed by nearly frameless glass walls, the home dissolves boundaries between interior and exterior while offering…
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future of life pavilion at expo 2025 osaka reimagines human existence through robotics & AI

future of life imagines technological co-evolution At Expo 2025 Osaka, the Future of Life pavilion offers a speculative journey into a world shaped by technological co-evolution. One of Japan’s leading roboticists, Hiroshi Ishiguro, leads the design of this Signature Pavilion…
Design | Interior Design | Technology

Drift Us by DRIFT Turns Motion Into Meaning at Milan Design Week

Dutch studio DRIFT has long captivated audiences with its kinetic installations, capturing fleeting moments from nature and translating them into immersive, sensory experiences within built environments. At Milan Design Week 2025, artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta did it once…
Architecture

Caju House

Caju House is a minimal home located in Teton Village, Wyoming, designed by CLB Architects. The weathered Corten steel exterior—its surface alive with oxidation’s warm orange patina—beckons like a protective shell against the rugged landscape. This materiality is no mere…
Property-design

8 Fabric Wall Art Ideas to Weave Style into Your Home

Looking for a unique way to decorate your walls? Fabric wall art is the perfect solution! This versatile decor idea can instantly transform your space with texture, color, and a personal stamp. Read on to discover how to make it…
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Inside an Architect’s First Project, A Love Letter to the Past (House Tour)

Kesterson House is more than just a renovation, it’s an architect’s first project – one that transforms an historical building into a contemporary family home. Located in Melbourne’s vibrant neighbourhood, St Kilda, this project marks an important milestone for Zac…
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Vernacular Architecture in a Contemporary Key | Casa Loredo

Casa Loredo is a residence on the edge of the Cantabrian Sea that blends tradition and modernity through minimalist architecture rooted in the local context. Designed in an L-shaped layout with large glass panels facing the sea, the house reinterprets…
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I Found a new PREFAB HOME Company Building 100s of Attainable Dwellings!

This week I went to Indy to check out a prefab home company building single and multi family dwellings with a focus on attainability called Volumod. While I was there one of the projects I looked at a development of…
Design | Interior Design

HIGHSTAY Debuts the Dreamy Villa Coachella in Saint Tropez

Positioning itself as an elevated alternative to standard vacation rental platforms such as Airbnb and VRBO, HIGHSTAY tenders a tightly curated collection of luxury apartments throughout Paris. Each is programmed with all of the hard and soft amenities one would…
Architecture

House in Hakusan

House in Hakusan is a minimalist home located in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Kenta Hirayama Architect & Associates. House in Hakusan represents a masterful renovation that honors the building’s 50-year history while creating a thoroughly contemporary living environment. The designers…
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Renovation Takes 14 Years, But Worth the Wait… | Constable House

Originally built in the 1960s on a steep site in Canberra, this house was transformed by Townsend + Associates Architects into a refined contemporary residence over a fourteen-year, two-stage process. The renovation introduced new living spaces, expansive decks, and a…
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Before & After: Cozy Cottage Living Room Update

What transforms a cottage living room from merely quaint to irresistible? Sometimes, it’s not grand gestures but subtle shifts—curated textures, a softened palette, a thoughtful rearrangement of light and space. This design story follows a once-muted retreat as it finds…
Architecture

How Abstract Art Inspired Zaha Hadid’s Design

Zaha Hadid’s design process revolutionized architectural design–a process first inspired by the artwork of Kazimir Malevich. 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 YouTube? ►►…
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Pine Island Cottage

Pine Island Cottage is a minimal home located in Georgian Bay, Canada, designed by Bureau Tempo & Thom Fougere. What Bureau Tempo and Thom Fougere Studio have created is not merely shelter but a material narrative that flows with the…
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curved facade of 3,000 glass bricks wraps DA VÀNG studio’s translucent house in vietnam

DA VÀNG studio completes crystal pavilion house In Trà Vinh, southern Vietnam, DA VÀNG studio has wrapped its Crystal Pavilion residence with a curved facade composed of over 3,000 glass bricks. This envelope functions as both a filter and an…
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Inside the 399 Square Foot Cottage Style Prefab Home #hometour

There is a prefab home model in Cedar City, Utah that can be built as a modular. The home was built by Zipkit Homes and this is a quick tour inside their Sedona Park Model, a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom…
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Prefabricated Shift House Brings Modularity to High-End Design

Tucked into a tree-lined area of East Hampton, New York, the Shift House is a new residential project by Palette Architecture that embodies a new paradigm in modern living, where design integrity meets the efficiencies of prefabricated construction. At just…