Art
The Swedish House Built by 200 Million Clicks
Putting all of a country's dream home ideas into one design could easily result in abomination, an architectural version of the bubble-domed, smooth-driving "Homer" car from The Simpsons.
Architecture
News
Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple Gets Crucial Restoration
The United States is really proud of Frank Lloyd Wright — in February, it nominated 10 of the architect's buildings for inclusion on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
Opinion
The Guggenheims Helsinki and Abu Dhabi: A Telling Tale of Two Outposts
The Guggenheim Helsinki will likely become the third museum of the Solomon R. Guggenheim’s global armada.
News
The Postmodern House That Changed the US Is Now for Sale
Want to own a house that changed the urban landscape of the United States?
Art
New York's Cathedral of Science Reopens with Interactive Ecology Beneath the Stars
The Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science in Queens was designed to give visitors to the 1964 World's Fair the feeling of floating in deep space.
News
Florida's Failed Moorish Utopia Plans a Better Future Through Art
Domes in muted colors and geometric murals adorn the buildings in Opa-locka, which, despite its abundance of Moorish revival architecture, is a long way from north Africa.
Art
The Madcap Masonry of Clinker Bricks
With twisted, charred shapes distended in chaotic lines, clinker brick looks like the deranged work of a madman.
Opinion
Stacked Boxes and BIG Statements in New Design for 2 World Trade Center
Bjarke Ingels revealed his proposal for 2 World Trade Center in an article for Wired on Tuesday. The final unbuilt plot at the hallowed New York City site — which had for a decade been reserved for a Norman Foster-designed scheme — may now give rise to a dramatically stepped, 1,340-foot glass tower.
Opinion
Every Architectural Rendering Needs an Alexander Calder Sculpture
What is it about Alexander Calder sculptures that makes them irresistible to the artists who create architectural renderings?
Art
50 Years of Fighting to Save New York City's Historic Architecture
The obliteration of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station in 1963, just a half-century after its completion, helped galvanize grassroots preservation efforts that eventually led to New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner signing the Landmarks Law on April 19, 1965.
Art
Building Tiny Houses for the Homeless
Most of us tend to associate the tiny-house phenomenon more with hipsters than with the homeless, but the architectural trend may offer a way to help people on the streets get back on their feet.
In Brief
American Suburban Architecture and the 1980s Hardcore Bands It Housed
The Hardcore Architecture blog is using addresses to reveal, through Google Street View, the often mundane suburban architecture behind the '80s underground scene.