Art
Worship Below the Waves: A Drowned Church Surfaces
A 400-year-old church drowned in 1966 has reemerged in Mexico.
Architecture
Art
Seamless Digital Collages Capture Europe's Church Façades
For his photo series FACADES, which portrays Europe's old religious structures head-on, from top to bottom, German artist Markus Brunetti strips these sites bare of any distracting elements.
Art
A Hidden Estonian "Forest Library" for Listening to Nature
Around 50% of Estonia is covered in forest.
Art
The Marvels of India's Maze-like Stepwells
For the past four years, journalist Victoria Lautman has been photographing an overlooked feature of Indian architectural history: the stepwell.
Art
The Whimsical Forms of Soviet Bus Stops
For over a decade, photographer Christopher Herwig travelled through 15 former Soviet countries on a scavenger hunt for one specific form of architecture: the common bus stop.
Art
Photos of Brooklyn's Waterfront Show a Century of Change
The Brooklyn waterfront is radically changing.
Books
Henry Howard, the Forgotten 19th-Century Architect of New Orleans
A three-decade exhumation to retrieve the forgotten career of one of the most influential 19th-century American architects was completed this June with the release of Henry Howard: Louisiana's Architect.
Art
Various Visions of the Future in NYC's First New Subway Station in 25 Years
It only took a day after Sunday's opening for a candy bar wrapper to lodge beneath the new wooden bench of the 34th Street-Hudson Yards platform, and vague stains to appear on the station's light granite floor tiles.
Books
The Most Fantastic Architecture of the Soviet Union Was Built on Paper
Restricted by the aesthetic limits on architecture in the Soviet Union, Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin imagined the most fantastic cities and wondrous structures on paper.
Art
LA's Architecture and Design Museum Reopens with a Show on the Future of Housing
LOS ANGELES — Every city has its own characteristic architectural forms. For New York, it’s the skyscraper. San Francisco has the Victorian. But in Los Angeles, residential architecture is the defining element of the urban fabric.
Books
The Pre-Columbian Origins of Mexico’s Modernist Architecture
In his monograph Pyramid, published by Toluca Éditions, photographer Pablo López Luz explores the pre-Columbian influence on modernist architecture in Mexico.
News
Historic Chapel in Mexico Mysteriously Torn Down
Did a small town in Mexico bulldoze a historically protected chapel at the heart of its community last month?