The 12th annual AIA Housing Awards will be presented to 10 deserving projects later this week on the floor of the AIA National Convention in Washington, D.C.
The winner of the Living Aleutian Home Design Competition applies Living Building Challenge metrics in a remote, 61-person town on Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
Architectural photographer Tim Street-Porter turns his talents to seaside houses and rooms with stunning water views.
Buffalo-based architect Adam Sokol focuses on daylighting, views, and outdoor connections in this urban infill project.
A glass-and-steel house interacts magically with light.
A humble backyard garage grows into a flexible, multipurpose accessory structure.
A Tennessee student-built project that's both affordable and elegant.
This vertical-minded Milwaukee getaway challenges the notions of what a cabin is.
This renovation was guided by the question: What would Schindler do?
On April 28 the National Building Museum (NBM) will open House & Home, a long-term exhibition with multiple educational events devoted to exploring the evolution and meaning of house versus home.
This Montauk beach house is a lens through which to study the landscape.
An urban infill house makes the most of a tight site.
A sensitive renovation interweaves the original house and its new additions.
A new kitchen in a restored 1959 house by Richard Neutra expands on the theme of the original building.
Lake|Flato Architects creates a modular house that relates to its site.
A naturally cooled house coexists peacefully with its desert site.
Motor-driven awning shutters provide elegant protection for an island home.
Two unobtrusive interior renovations update a home’s exterior.
A historic plantation house is simplified and restored.
Low profile cabinetry and walls devoted to glass open this kitchen to the outdoors.
A composition of floating elements, this master bath delivers an integrated experience.
A red-lacquer stair-cum-storage cabinet draws inspiration from Asian traditions.
A glass-walled master bath drops a column of daylight into a two-story penthouse apartment.
Radically simplified forms and a tightly focused program yield a pure architectural experience.
This small studio apartment in New York lives large thanks to built-in storage.
Quintessentially California, this cantilevered glass box is designed for indoor/outdoor living.
Office of Architecture and Push bring light to a New York loft.
The countdown to this year’s Kitchen and Bath Industry Show is now in the single digits. As an estimated 20,600 manufacturers, designers, dealers, and custom builders and remodelers prepare to descend on the city of Chicago, we asked the show’s managing director Jim Scott what trends attendees are...
Porches that are integrated into a home’s layout rather than a tacked-on afterthought provide restful places to lounge.
Stockholm-based architect Mats Fahlander was an apt candidate to design a summer cottage for this shorefront site on Sweden’s rugged western coast because he’s known the both the client and the area since childhood.
Our jury panel of six architects reviewed nearly 800 projects during two days of judging and selected 36 entries worthy of a 2012 ra design award.
Five creative solutions to bring light deep into long, narrow row house floor plans.
Looking to provoke his colleagues to share their opinions on challenging topics, architect Mark English launched his blog, The Architect’s Take, several months ago. A big concern on his mind was the lack of women in his profession, so he asked four prominent female architects and one landscape...
An Oregon house introduces the Swiss green building standard Minergie to North America.
The three projects that were certified in the pilot program were based on a 250-point rating system for creating a sustainable landscape.
The 2012 Honor Awards jury chose Gehry’s house, completed in 1978, as an example of iconic American architecture that remains relevant today.
Reinvention 2011 ended with a participatory event during which conference attendees shared selections from their own portfolios.
Residential architects and designers from across the country grabbed a boxed lunch and climbed aboard buses for the popular housing tour that kicks off Reinvention each year.
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