Open House(s): 10 Wonderful Open-Plan Home Designs
There are few design concepts more widely integrated in modern architecture than the idea of openness. When architects work with open designs, they not only allow the residents more flexibility ...
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Haunted House? The Abandoned Mansion of Steve Jobs
The life of late Apple magnate Steve Jobs was unquestionably full of interesting twists and turns. One of the lesser-known battles fought by Jobs was that of Jackling Mansion, a home that ...
Modern-Day Sky Castles: 7 Cool Converted Watertower Houses
Water towers have been a common sight in cities, towns and villages all across the world since at least the Industrial Revolution. As certain towers fall out of use for one reason or another, ...
Space Warps: 15 Buildings that Bend, Wrap & Curve
Folding onto themselves like ribbon and snaking along the grass, these 15 structures have barely a straight line in sight. From interiors that resemble honeycombs and cocoons to shell-shaped ...
Stacking in Style: New Trend Puts Houses on Houses
Multi-level structures with a bit of extra flair, these three designs for an apartment building, a hotel and a gallery space consist of stacked volumes that look like little houses piled on top ...
Real Life Sim City: 3D Printers Turn Virtual to Reality
Remember SimCity 2000? It was so easy to waste hours and hours planning and building cities, then watching disasters befall the unfortunate citizens. But the problem was always that you had to ...
Mirror, Mirror: Playground Pavilion Gets Funhouse Treatment
Children in Copenhagen have a little extra whimsy and fun added to their playground experience with the Mirror House, a pavilion and learning space used by kindergarten glasses. The gabled ends ...
Copycats & Clones: 24 Near-Identical Architectural Designs
You know you've got a winning architectural design when strikingly similar structures begin popping up around the world. Sometimes, these similarities are just coincidences. Sometimes, they're ...
Architectural Tilts: 13 Leaning Wonders of the Built World
When you don't place a structure - particularly a very tall structure - on a solid foundation, this is what happens. The building starts to lean, further and further each year, and though it may ...
Angular Masterpieces: 10 Home Designs Defined by Angles
There’s nothing like sharp, drastic lines and unexpected angles to attract attention to a modern home. While most home designs use only ninety degree angles on all corners inside and out, these ...
