Arches bring a softness to the space The Coi House has a lot going on, and we mean that in the best way possible. Built in a bustling neighborhood of Da Nang City, Vietnam, the three-story structure is hard to miss thanks to its textured facade. The architects at Coi Design crafted …
The Palace of Westminster is in a state of disrepair. Is this an opportunity to completely reimagine how politics should look? Britain’s Parliament is broken—and it has nothing to do with Brexit. What plagues the Palace of Westminster, where the two houses of the British Parliament sit, runs deeper than …
School never looked so fun Kindergarten is looking a whole lot better than it used to. From angular wooden huts in Sweden to courtyards that double as a rainwater collection splash pool, early education has taken a decidedly high-design turn in some parts of the world. Take this new school in …
The towering glass megachurch, long the home of a flamboyant televangelist, has been renamed Christ Cathedral. A prominent house of worship in Southern California has been flipped — from a towering glass megachurch of a flamboyant televangelist to the new seat of the seventh-largest Roman Catholic Church diocese in the United …
The designs encourage pause and reflection along a 1.7 mile hiking trail in the Nordkette mountains Architectural tourism tends to cater to the ostentatious. Make it shiny, colorful, or thrilling, and tourists will flock to it, phone in hand. High above the town of Innsbruck, Austria, a new kind of architectural …
Eight of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on Sunday, elevating them to the same status as Machu Picchu, the Pyramids of Giza and the Statue of Liberty. The new additions to the list were announced in Baku, Azerbaijan at UNESCO’s annual conference, include …
BARCELONA, Spain — Every year, more than a million people visit the home of Ana Viladomiu in Barcelona. She does her best to avoid them. Ms. Viladomiu lives in La Pedrera, the last house built by Antoni Gaudí, the brilliant Catalan architect who died after being hit by a tram …
As New York’s incarceration rate falls, the city is casting around for smaller jails to copy On june 7th Layleen Polanco, a 27-year-old transgender woman, was found dead in her cell at Rikers Island Jail. She was being held on $500 bail for a misdemeanour prostitution offence and the lowest-level drug …
Eero Saarinen’s iconic Jet Age terminal at JFK Airport has been transformed into a truly cool hotel After 18 years of being mostly hidden from public view, one of New York’s best and most iconic buildings is ready to welcome visitors. The TWA Flight Center, the striking Jet Age marvel designed by Eero …
On April 23, about a week after the fire at Notre-Dame in Paris, the designer Mathieu Lehanneur unveiled his plan for a new spire for the cathedral: a gleaming, 300-foot flame, made of carbon fiber and covered in gold leaf, that would be a permanent reminder of the tragedy. The suggestion, first made …
V-shaped structures create unusual spaces On the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam, a strange office complex has taken shape. Slabs of concrete pitch together into triangular points, turning the building exteriors into a modern Brutalist fortress of sorts. Vo Trong Nghia Architects, known for creating impressive compositions of concrete and greenery, designed the buildings …
