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Can You Build a House Out of Paper? Shigeru Ban Says Yes.
A new version of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s Paper Log House is on display at the Glass House in New…
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The 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in…
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How Do You Build a Jungle?
THE ARCHITECTS MARCIO Kogan and Renata Furlanetto of the Brazilian firm Studio MK27 had just broken ground on a new…
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A Growth Spurt in Green Architecture
Buildings made shaggy with vegetation or fragrant with wood are no longer novelties.
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Antoine Predock, Architect Who Channeled the Southwest, Dies at 87
His striking, acclaimed structures evoked the desert. But for major projects elsewhere in the world, he adopted the same principle:…
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The Incredible Expanding $150,000 House: It’s Not 500 Square Feet Anymore.
Even a quarter of a century ago, the one-bedroom house was a bargain in Los Angeles. Several renovations later, it’s…
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‘An Incoherent Riot’: Why London’s Skyline Looks So Weird
London has a jarring profusion of odd skyscrapers with funny names or nicknames. There are the Shard and the Scalpel,…
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In Tokyo, Rescuing the Residential Spaceship That Fell to Earth
Fifty years ago, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was hailed as a marvel of biological design. Now its legacy lives on…
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In Rio de Janeiro, Architecture That’s in Sync With the Jungle
FOR AT LEAST half a decade, Juliana Ayako has been fascinated by a strange, slapdash house on a bare hillside…
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Business
A Black Woman’s Rise in Architecture Shows How Far Is Left to Go
They have worked for decades to make their way in a profession that remains overwhelmingly white and male, but there…
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