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Inside the Beautiful Home Frank Lloyd Wright Designed for His Son (1952)
Being Frank Lloyd Wright’s son surely came with its downsides. But one of the upsides —...
A Guided Tour of the Largest Handmade Model of Imperial Rome: Discover the 20x20 Meter Model Created During the 1930s
At the moment, you can’t see the largest, most detailed handmade model of Imperial Rome for...
Beautifully-Preserved Frescoes with Figures from the Trojan War Discovered in a Lavish Pompeii Home
Image via Pompeii Archaeological Park Imagine visiting the home of a prominent, wealthy figure, and at...
How the Berlin Wall Worked: The Engineering & Structural Design of the Wall That Formidably Divided East & West
More than thirty years after the formal dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, few...
How to Be a Natural Conference Speaker? (2022)
A friend and I were chatting recently about speaking at conferences. Now this person is smart...
Brutal Welsh Architecture – Pictures
Built according to plans by Spence, Blocks A and B, housing the Magnox reactors, were intended...
For $367 a Month, She Has 345 Square Feet, a Hot Tub and a River
After a lifetime of seeking out tiny spaces, she finally found a keeper: a former barbershop...
Sagrada Familia in Barcelona ‘will be completed in 2026’
New date for Antoni Gaudí’s basilica announced but enormous, controversial stairway will take another eight yearsBarcelona’s...
Sheets of Graph Paper Were Used to Design Super Mario Bros
via Nintendo [Youtube]More than 6 million courses have been created for Super Mario Maker, a video...
Combining Command and Visitor design patterns
Designing the architecture of a personal project, I've come up with the idea of using the...
When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Plan to Turn Ellis Island Into a Futuristic Jules Verne-Esque City (1959)
The very words “Ellis Island” bring to mind a host of sepia-toned images, shaped by both...
An Architectural Tour of Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí’s Audacious Cathedral That’s Been Under Construction for 142 Years
In less than a year and a half, the centenary of Antoni Gaudí’s death will be...
How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa
?si=WxyK2XAukThVTpa7 Construction on the Tower of Pisa first began in the year 1173. By 1178, the...
‘I am not very good at design’: architecture’s top honour goes to Riken Yamamoto
The Pritzker prize has been won by the 78-year-old Japanese master whose whose work ranges from...
Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism
Situated a two-hour drive west of Helsinki, the former tuberculosis sanatorium takes a humanistic approach to...
House Dokka combines simple geometry and natural materials to create a home that resembles a floating treehouse
Located in Kongsberg, Norway, Snøhetta and Tor Helge Dokka have designed a mass-timber, single-family house with...
Makhno Studio’s Gnizdo houses seamlessly blend tradition and futurism
With a completion date set for this year, Ukrainian architectural studio Makhno’s latest project fuses past...
A Walking Tour of Los Angeles Architecture: From Art Deco to California Bungalow
When architectural historian Reyner Banham wrote Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971), quite possibly...
Africa’s largest mosque inaugurated in Algeria after years of delays
Prayer room of Great Mosque of Algiers, beset by political wrangling and cost overruns, accommodates 120,000...
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Pangeos Terayacht: An $8 Billion Engineering Disaster (Adam Something, YouTube/Piped, 12m40s)The project The designer Previously on...
This new eco-conscious hotel concept in the Trosa archipelago draws a discerning crowd
Realised by Swedish architect Andreas Martin-Löf, and founded by Umberto Garabello, Landet Stay embraces local ties...
The Jobs to Be Done by the Ideal Postgres Extension Ecosystem
The past year has seen a surge in interest in Postgres extension distribution. A number of...
