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Mini Modernists: 15 Designer Toys for Young Architecture Fans

Foster an appreciation for fine modernist architecture and design from an early age with Bauhaus dollhouses, Eames block sets, mini Corbusier lounge chairs and urban planning board games. There's ...

Vandalized Villa Savoye: Imagining a Modernist Icon in Ruins

Le Corbusier's "machine for living in" is one of the most-studied works of Modern architecture, but what would it look like if it ceased to be preserved and was left to be ransacked and ...

Crafty Modernist Birdhouses Sing Mid-Century Melodies

Modern architecture is the height of contemporary living - so why are we still putting out dowdy old birdhouses for our feathered neighbors? These gorgeous modern birdhouses are a step forward ...

Beyond Brutalism: Creative Modernist Concrete Architecture

Concrete as a building material has been used at least as far back as the Roman Empire. In the modern age, the overuse of concrete in Soviet-style blockhouse construction - Brutalism - has ...

Restyling Blandmarks: Those Much Maligned Boxy Urban Condo Buildings

From Seattle to New York City, Minneapolis to Dallas, boxy apartment and condo buildings sporting bland facades, metallic or colored cladding and a generally flat aesthetic seem to dominate new ...

The World’s Largest Bike Garage is a Subterranean Wonder in Utrecht

Considering that more than a third of Dutch people use a bike as their main mode of transportation every day, it’s no surprise that the world’s largest bicycle garage is located in Utrecht. ...

Arata Isozaki: The Architect Who Linked East and West After World War II

Plenty of architects can say they began from nothing, but few mean it quite so literally as Arata Isozaki. He was fourteen years old in 1945, when his hometown of Oita, located halfway between ...

Maximalist Makeovers: Transforming Architecture with Vivid Paint Jobs

Minimalism is chic and trendy, but sometimes, there’s nothing more satisfying than blotting out bland and boring surfaces with bold splashes of color and pattern. That’s especially true when ...

Cough-y House: Abandoned Cresson Tuberculosis Sanatorium

The abandoned Cresson Tuberculosis Sanatorium once housed TB patients seeking relief and recuperation amidst Pennsylvania's rugged Allegheny Mountains. Sanatoriums (not to be confused with ...

Topographical Architecture Brings the Printed Contours of Maps to Life

When artificial structures mimic the contours of topographic maps, which are almost sculptural in their own right, they become an extension of the land itself. The lines on the map that indicate ...

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