House

The Farnsworth House | Mies van der Rohe

Mies van der Rohe

It—two parallel planes held in suspension between the earth and sky by only eight steel columns—seems simple, but Mies worked through 167 drawings to come to his final, fearless design. Like ...

How Islamic Architecture Can Inspire Contemporary Architecture

Urwa Shahid

Contemporary Islamic architecture is recent architecture, mostly from the mid-20th century onwards, that draws on the principles of historic Islamic buildings (courtyards, controlled daylight, ...

Stone House | Vo Trong Nghia Architects (VTN Architects)

Vo Trong Nghia

This torus-shaped stone house is located in a quiet residential quarter beside the way to Ha Long Bay from Hanoi. A rising green roof and walls composed of subdued color stones in dark blue create a ...

Douglas House | Richard Meier & Partners

Richard Meier & Partners

The Douglas House is dramatically situated on an isolated site that slopes down to Lake Michigan. So steep is the fall of the land from the road down to the water that the house appears to have been ...

Transparent House II | Krueck & Sexton Architects

Krueck + Sexton Architects

Designed for an art collector and his family on coastal United States, the Transparent House II is located on a triangular site facing an Intracoastal Sound. Having been stricken with a serious ...

Natanz Villa | White on White Studio

Faezeh Arefnazari-Ruhollah Rasooli

Located in Natanz’s suburbs, this small plot of land was chosen to become the home of a cozy villa with a limited budget for construction. The client’s main demand was preserving the view toward ...

World’s 3 Most Successful Public Housing Projects

Urwa Shahid

Successful public housing projects share three things: a location connected to jobs and services, homes that residents can adapt and feel ownership of, and shared spaces that build a community rather ...

K.Por House | Sute Architect

Sute Architect

Ms. Por's house is the steel structure modern style house. It located in the middle of the field, that is the first figure when the designer realized the task to design  Ms. Por’s house. This house ...

Kampono House | RAW Architecture

Realrich Sjarief

Located in The Green Precinct, Bumi Serpong Damai, Tangerang, Kampono House sited on the corner of the complex facing west and south. Its total area is 319 sqm, and having land shaped round. The ...

Architect vs Engineer: What Is the Difference?

Emily Reyes

Architect vs engineer comes down to responsibility: an architect is responsible for the design of a building as a whole (how it is used, how it looks, how it fits its place and how it meets building ...

Detailed Floor Plans of Homes from Popular TV Shows

Daniel Mercer

TV show floor plans are drawings that work out how the homes in a series would fit together as real buildings. Most TV homes were never real: they were built as separate sets on a studio stage, often ...

8 Various Applications of Shipping Container Architecture from Around the Globe

Yosra M. Ahmed

Container architecture reuses steel shipping containers, made to standard ISO sizes, as the structural modules of buildings: houses, hotels, student flats, shops, offices, schools and even sports ...