• This Modern Farmhouse Reimagines the Classic Longhouse Layout
    Wednesday, July 30, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    This modern farmhouse dining room doubles as a breezeway, seamlessly shifting between indoor elegance and outdoor airiness. Just an hour east of Toronto lies The Farm, a 30-hectare retreat in Southwestern Ontario, thoughtfully designed by Scott Posno Design with interiors by &Daughters. Created for a family seeking a deeper connection to the land, this...
  • Heritage coalition saves Scottish modernist ‘jewel’ in fiercely fought auction
    Wednesday, July 30, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Derelict studio built for textile designer Bernat Klein in 1972 goes for £279,000 after starting price of £18,000 A coalition of design and conservation charities has won an auction to buy a threatened modernist building in the Scottish...
  • This Home’s Roof Is a Garden, and That’s Just the Beginning
    Tuesday, July 29, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    This modern home vanishes into the hillside with a green roof, corten steel facade, and panoramic river views. Designed by 77 Studio, the “House in the Slope” is a single-family home quietly embedded into a riverside embankment along Poland’s Vistula River. With its sunken form, corten steel facade, and green roof, the house preserves the natural...
  • Barbarians at the gate: Now the Government is attacking architects – Simon Wilson
    Tuesday, July 29, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    OPINION: Chris Bishop wants councils to stop trying to win design awards. But why?
  • The Clean Crisp Design of This Home Is Pure Zen
    Monday, July 28, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Travertine walls and oak accents define this layered coastal home that blends seamlessly into the slope. On a hillside plot open to the sea, architect Pasqual Giner and interior design studio Auñón Cabrera have created a second home for a Dutch couple that captures the essence of Mediterranean living. The project explores restraint,...
  • This Quietly Dramatic Brick Home Is All About Restraint
    Monday, July 28, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    The home’s low, elongated form and earthy materials, like brick and wood, echo the tones of the escarpment and surrounding forest. Setless Architecture has crafted a striking residence perched on the edge of the Niagara Escarpment in Dundas, Ontario, right above the Bruce Trail. Wrapped in dark brick and warm wood, Fallsview Residence blends into its natural...
  • Ep 181: Attitude Reflects Leadership
    Sunday, July 27, 2025 from Life of an Architect
    How leadership behavior shapes culture, trust, and growth - why people mirror what leaders model, and how influence is built through everyday actions. The post Ep 181: Attitude Reflects Leadership first appeared on Life of an Architect ....
  • Gyeongju, South Korea: What it’s like staying at a hanok village
    Saturday, July 26, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Nathan Limm explores the rich history of Gyeongju.
  • A Scandinavian Cabin Aesthetic Shaped This Striking Urban Home
    Saturday, July 26, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Black board and batten siding pairs with a matching metal roof for a crisp, modern exterior of this house, that feels timeless and tailored to the site. Perched on a narrow uphill-sloping lot in Vancouver, this home by Scott Posno Design reimagines the Scandinavian cabin for an urban setting. Designed for a pair of industrial designers and manufacturers, the home took two years from...
  • Auckland Museum’s extraordinary origin story emerges from the archives
    Friday, July 25, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    A century ago, the foundation stone was laid for the city's most ambitious civic project.
  • An eco-friendly renovation doesn’t need to be all about appliances and it needn’t cost the Earth
    Friday, July 25, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    For environmentally minded renovators, reducing construction waste and recycling or repurposing existing infrastructure is just as important Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce...
  • This Barn Conversion Balances Rustic Charm With Industrial Edge
    Friday, July 25, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    A collapsing dairy barn has been reimagined as a modern family home blending rustic charm with bold, contemporary design. Set within nearly two acres of Hampshire countryside, Foxhole Barns is a striking private home designed by AR Design Studio. Once a collapsing dairy farm, the structure has been reimagined as a warm, modern retreat that honors its...
  • Verona Opera Festival: Tosca captivates under starlit skies
    Friday, July 25, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    The Arena di Verona hosts operas in a 1st-century Roman amphitheatre.
  • Inside the Home with the Most Unusual Brickwork You’ve Ever Seen
    Thursday, July 24, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    A modern home with a sculptural brick facade. On the rural outskirts of Quito, Ecuador, A House in the Andes redefines what it means to build with the land instead of on it. Designed by CORREA + FATEHI | ODD, this striking three-level home is sculpted from the very soil it...
  • How Rusted Steel Adds Warmth To This Modern Home
    Thursday, July 24, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    Stained cedar siding and Corten steel panels give this house a modern, grounded look that blends beautifully with the wooded riverside landscape. Tucked at the end of a quiet lane along the Bagaduce River, Riverbend feels like it belongs to the landscape as much as it overlooks it. Designed by Maine-based architecture firm OPAL, the home balances function and craft, created for a...
  • Hidden gems and secret corners: a rare glimpse inside Melbourne’s most captivating buildings
    Thursday, July 24, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    For three days as part of Open House Melbourne, the public will be able to peek behind the doors of artist’s studios, distinctive buildings and historic homes Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Beneath an unassuming Collingwood...
  • Revamped Roxy theatre among dozens of NSW regional venues hosting hectic schedule of events
    Thursday, July 24, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Exclusive: NSW officials expect more than 76,000 people will attend events after allocation of $700,000 from regional arts touring fund Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email A host of locally made productions and exhibitions will...
  • This Home Reimagines Tudor Style With a Modern Twist
    Wednesday, July 23, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    With its pitched roof, steel exoskeleton, and slurried brick infill, this London home borrows from suburban mock-Tudor while turning the style completely on its head. In the leafy London suburb of Surbiton, a new home quietly redefines the architectural language of the neighborhood. Designed by Surman Weston for the founder of fashion brand Star Mela, Ditton Hill House is a striking two-storey...
  • This Elevated Home Proves That Steep Sites Can Be Beautiful Ones
    Wednesday, July 23, 2025 from CONTEMPORIST » Architecture
    The exterior of this modern home is wrapped in vertical steel panels designed to weather, while deep wood-lined recesses frame curated views and allow light to shift throughout the day. Tucked into a steep ravine just outside suburban Austin, the Falcon Ledge Residence feels like a hidden escape. Designed by Alterstudio Architecture, it transforms a once-overlooked plot into a serene home nestled among the treetops....
  • Heritage groups try to save decaying modernist studio in Scottish Borders
    Wednesday, July 23, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Studio built for textile designer Bernat Klein by Peter Womersley put up for auction despite hopes of private sale A coalition of heritage and design groups has launched a last-minute attempt to save one of the UK’s most threatened...
  • Six great reads: sports bros, London’s most rock’n’roll hotel and Tetris-like architecture
    Saturday, July 19, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days Continue reading...
  • Former Christchurch Hunters and Collectors building transformed from ‘Dirty 30’ eyesore after the earthquake
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    The former Hunters and Collectors building has been transformed.
  • How destruction of Hotel Oloffson is symbol of Haiti’s gang crisis
    Friday, July 18, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Once a haven for the world’s rich and famous, the landmark hotel was burned down this month as violence gripped Port-au-Prince There was an outpouring of grief in Haiti when the Hotel Oloffson, a cultural and architectural landmark in...
  • The Guardian view on strengthening social cohesion: we can learn from the working-class past | Editorial
    Thursday, July 17, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    The reopening of one of the most remarkable buildings of the 20th century is a reminder of what a sense of common purpose can achieve The traditional showpiece of any summer in County Durham is the annual miners’ gala , which last...
  • Architectural home designs for $1: NSW releases housing pattern book aimed at boosting construction
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Premier says plans have affordability and fast approval in mind as expert welcomes potential to ‘democratise good design’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast What if you could buy architect-designed drawings for...
  • ‘People here are as strong as concrete’: the stunning architecture of war-torn Kharkiv
    Monday, July 14, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    A new architectural guidebook was written as a love letter to the Ukrainian city – then Russia started bombing it. How will this home to Tetris-like offices and daring curved cinemas be rebuilt? When the Derzhprom building erupted on to...
  • Ep 180: Size Doesn’t Matter
    Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Life of an Architect
    The phrase “it’s just a small project” has probably caused more confusion, blown more budgets, and strained more relationships than we’d care to admit. It sounds harmless, maybe even charming – the architectural equivalent of a...
  • Inside the Grand Egyptian Museum: A billion-dollar bridge between past and future
    Saturday, July 12, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Think Egypt is a place frozen in history? Think again.
  • Moulin Rouge windmill twirls again 14 months after accident
    Friday, July 11, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Dancers performed the club's famed cancan in the street to mark the occasion.
  • The world’s most luxurious ski hotels, from Switzerland to Colorado
    Thursday, July 10, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Ultra-luxury ski hotels around the world, from Aspen to Aros.
  • More than Human review – a utopia of self-weaving grass and psychedelic dolphins
    Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Design Museum, London From 3D-printed coral reefs to fungal facades and living fabrics grown from roots, this show embraces a future of nature-centric design ‘Even when humans get serious about wanting to talk to dolphins, will dolphins...
  • Mansons begins work at 35 Graham St; free car with Westgate home; Pompallier on Ponsonby progress; how’s Kiwi Property’s Resido going? - Property Insider
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    Two basement levels, nine storeys of offices: NZ's biggest new commercial project begins.
  • A ‘floating university’ and a pink mosque: Dhaka builds for a wetter future – in pictures
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Across the Bangladeshi megacity, designers are adapting to the climate crisis Continue reading...
  • ‘As thrilling as driving a sports car’: the Tokyo capsule tower that gave pod-living penthouse chic
    Monday, July 7, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    They had portholes, cutting edge mod cons – and the ultra luxurious models even came with a free calculator. As Japan’s beloved Nakagin Capsule Tower resurfaces, we celebrate an architectural marvel Looking like a teetering stack of...
  • Trevor Hendy obituary
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which, among other things, he brought back to life its Arlington House property, a 900-bed hostel...
  • Charred chimneys are all that’s left of these LA midcentury homes. Inside the quest to save them
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    A piece of history burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. Project Chimney is salvaging what’s left to honor the architecture – and eventually create a memorial By mid-morning last Thursday, Evan Hall was standing near the top of...
  • ‘Forgotten’ designer of art nouveau Métro entrances to get Paris museum
    Friday, July 4, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Fans say opening of museum honouring Hector Guimard, whose work went out of fashion, will right a historic wrong The “forgotten” designer of Paris’s most iconic Métro station entrances and art nouveau buildings is to be given his...
  • City Rail Link: Auckland’s Karanga-a-Hape Station features giant kauri snail, sun, moon artworks
    Thursday, July 3, 2025 from nzherald.co.nz - Architecture
    'Representing the history of this area. This ridgeline was a kauri forest.' - Barry Potter
  • The enchanted car park: how a ruined multi-storey became a garden paradise loved by lizards and dog-walkers
    Wednesday, July 2, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Once a hangout for sex workers and drug addicts, a parking lot in Medellín, Colombia, has been reborn as a green haven for all. We meet the ‘social urbanists’ credited with reducing crime – and even temperatures Lilac-flowering creepers...
  • Ep 179: Is Half the Story Enough?
    Sunday, June 29, 2025 from Life of an Architect
    Architectural influencers on social media can bring real insight to the table while others blur the line between experience and performance, you should evaluate what you’re seeing, questioning why it was shared, and learn how to tell the...
  • Victoria’s best new residential architecture – in pictures
    Saturday, June 28, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Well-crafted family homes, a beach house that invites the outside in, and a stunning concrete bunker in a high-risk fire zone are just some of the winners in the 2025 Victorian Architecture awards category for new residential properties,...
  • Solar power: Kangaroo Point Bridge leads winners as Queensland architecture awards put spotlight on sustainability
    Friday, June 27, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Bridge that spans Brisbane River and includes solar panels and shade along its length hailed as a transformative piece of urban infrastructure Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The newest bridge spanning the...
  • Léon Krier obituary
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from Architecture | The Guardian
    Visionary architect appointed master-planner by King Charles for his model new town of Poundbury in Dorset A colonnade of doric columns flanks the entrance to the neoclassical Waitrose building in Poundbury, Dorchester, in Dorset, facing...
  • A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is on Substack
    Tuesday, October 15, 2024 from A Daily Dose of Architecture
  • The Hidden Carbon Cost of Climate Retrofits
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    Building Energy Saving Retrofit in Liu Lian Primary School / FORWARD STUDIO. Image © Tianpei Zeng Evolving urban conditions call for an evolving builtscape, and retrofits have been a key mechanism to allow buildings to adapt and respond to new needs. Amidst global environmental concerns, climate retrofits have become a popular...
  • House Within a Few Lines / fala
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Francisco Ascensão The geometry of a narrow house is settled within a few lines. The intervention happens both in plan projection and in section. Curved walls are intersected with sinuous ceiling resulting in a space that is not static. In the evening,...
  • "Architecture is That Fixed Element Within Nature": David Montalba in My Point of View
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    Courtesy of Sky-Frame Architect David Montalba was born in Switzerland but grew up in California. He became a passionate surfer, bobbing in the waves of the Pacific, staring at the land, yet always feeling and hearing the ocean around him; profoundly...
  • Sordo Madaleno Reveals Proposal for the Refurbishment and Remodeling of the El Molinón Stadium in Spain
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    El Molinón Stadium. Image © Plomp In preparation for the city of Asturias , Spain , to become one of the hosts of the FIFA World Cup in 2030 , the El Molinón stadium is proposed to undergo a major remodeling process. Home Real Sporting de Gijón , the stadium is...
  • Kornmarktplatz Townhouse / Herzog & de Meuron
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © Christian Schramm The new townhouse on the centrally located Kornmarktplatz in Bregenz is intended to make an independent contribution to the cultural and public life of the city on Lake Constance.
  • Designed by OMA, Simone-Veil Bridge Opens to the Public in Bordeaux, France
    Monday, July 15, 2024 from Arch Daily
    © JB Menges, courtesy of Bordeaux Metropole The Simone Veil Bridge , designed by OMA / Rem Koolhaas and Chris van Duijn, has officially opened in Bordeaux , France . Serving as the sixth crossing over the River Garonne , the platform stretches 548 meters from either side, with a...
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