Lake house rooftop garden helps ease the interior heat
A concrete 4,900-square-feet modern home in Connecticut is turning heads with its cantilevered roofline. Horizontal...
Sugar factory to be turned into sweet mixed-use space
CHYBIK + KRISTOF and Skanska have teamed up to create a sustainable new housing development called the "Sugar Factory"...
Unique office design in India wraps around a green space
In Raipur, India, a new project called the Courtyard Office by Sanjay Puri Architects is redefining commercial...
This barn achieved LEED Platinum with its Zen design
The Zen Barn by Christopher Simmonds Architect is a home in a historic Ottawa neighborhood. It achieved LEED Platinum...
California Art House switches up the norms of entertaining
The Art House, designed by Buttrick Projects Architecture+Design, updated a classic 1920s California home into...
Modern apartment opens to lush vegetation and natural space
In Mexico City, architects Ana Nuno de Buen and Luis Young created Casa Cascada to perch atop an existing 1950s...
ODA’s vibrant new complex transforms a conventional DC block
West Half by ODA New York is a multi-use complex that combines architecture, interior design and landscape design...
Finally a Court House is a house designed around a courtyard
Wind and Wellington, New Zealand go hand in hand. Finding an outdoor space with an escape from the constant wind...
Cloudy Courtyard is crystal clear in its historical inspiration
The best architecture tells a story. It honors tradition and culture. It speaks to history. Although it doesn’t...
Midcentury-inspired Austin home oozes nostalgic vibes
Texas-based architecture firm Mark Odom Studio has recently completed the Inglewood Courtyard Residence, a 2,400-square-foot...
The River School places classrooms around a central courtyard
Great design means different things to different people, but the best architectural design incorporates history,...
This industrial complex has a facade made from its own construction waste
Located in the North India city of Kishangarh, this innovative industrial complex for Stonex India and designed...
Tiny timber cabin opens up to the French countryside
Kyoto-based architecture 2m26 used locally sourced materials to build a peaceful tiny timber cabin tucked into...
Green-roofed Stonecrop home rises from rural English landscape
London-based architecture firm Featherstone Young recently completed Stonecrop, a new home in Rutland,...
A “green lung” brings sunlight and air into a narrow Vietnamese home
In the tightly packed cities of Vietnam, residential houses are often placed close together on long, narrow plots...
Stunning family home in Ecuador offers serenity in an increasingly noisy world
At one time, we were all so eager to stay connected to everything at every moment, but now, architects are fielding...
LEED Platinum Sitka captures the Pacific Northwest spirit with a lush, fog-enabled courtyard
Local architectural practice Runberg Architecture Group has raised the bar for sustainable design in Seattle with...
A 1940s cottage is transformed into a solar-powered Hanok-inspired home
Portland-based collaborative design practice Woofter Architecture has recently completed the expansion and renovation...
Casa I combines traditional courtyard typology with modern construction in Chile
Santiago-based architects Alfredo Thiermann and Sebastián Cruz of architecture office Thiermann Cruz Arquitectos...
Forgotten urban spaces get new lives as beautiful gathering areas on Skid Row
As part of its project to update a 110-unit affordable housing project on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, California...
This solar-powered home in Brazil blends into its environment with a massive green roof and an open-air ground floor
When it comes to modern homes, most architects focus on creating a soothing harmony between the indoors and outdoors,...
Twisting brick facade fronts an innovative courtyard house near Chicago
In a Chicago suburb full of traditional gabled rooflines, California-based architectural firm Brooks + Scarpa has...
MAD Architects to transform an ancient Chinese courtyard into a kindergarten with a “floating roof”
Beijing-based design practice MAD Architects has broken ground on the Courtyard Kindergarten, a striking adaptive...
BIG’s dramatic “hillside” apartments officially open in Stockholm
Bjarke Ingels Group has announced the official opening of the long-awaited 79&Park, a residential development...
A gloomy house is revived as a modern solar home built of recycled materials
A dark and gloomy, non-insulated dwelling with zero views to speak of has been dramatically transformed into a...
Frank Gehry tops Facebook HQ expansion with a 3.6-acre rooftop park
Facebook recently unveiled a peek inside MPK 21, its newest campus building designed by Frank Gehry and built in...
Lush greenery grows in and around this breezy Indian home
When LIJO.RENY.architects was tapped to design a modern house for the town of Tirur in the southern Indian state...
Historic warehouses transformed into a swanky boutique hotel in New Orleans
New York City-based architecture and interior design firm Stonehill Taylor tapped into New Orleans’ storied past...
Frida Escobedo’s 2018 Serpentine Pavilion unveiled in London
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has unveiled this year’s Serpentine Pavilion—a dark and porous envelope that...
A storage shed is transformed into a bespoke light-filled home in London
London-based architecture firm De Rosee Sa has given an old storage shed a new lease on life by converting it into...
