Architecture

Some buildings carry their history in their bones. La Fusteria — Catalan for "carpentry" — is one of them. Tucked into a small village...

Architecture is not decoration. It is not a luxury reserved for people with corner offices or penthouse apartments. Every room you have ever entered...

Some buildings carry grief you can almost touch. The Ore Mountains — the Erzgebirge straddling the Czech-German border — are full of them. After...

Something changes when you stop treating light as the only goal. Most cottage renovations chase brightness — white walls, exposed beams, linen curtains, every...

The Jevany Villa started with a pit in the ground, a descending slope, and a wall of mature spruce trees. Most architects would treat...

Twenty square meters. Four seasons. One view that stops you cold. Ark-Shelter's Cabin Devín, perched above Devín Castle on the edge of the Zlatý...

Some buildings survive by accident. Others survive by intention. And then there are the rare ones that survive because an architect was willing to...

Slopes do not forgive indecision. A plot that drops six meters from street to garden demands a clear architectural answer — or it swallows...

122°F (50°C). That number used to belong to science fiction. Now, it shows up on weather apps in Phoenix, Karachi, and Riyadh like an...

Some houses impress. Then some houses stay with you. Casinha da Melroeira, designed by Filipe Saraiva and photographed by Ivo Tavares, belongs firmly to the...

Reme Giner's latest residential project disrupts conventional Costa Blanca architecture. Casa Petra challenges the region's typical white-box aesthetic with a material strategy that deserves...

Schist and concrete shouldn't work together. Yet here, at 1,200 meters above sea level in Portugal's Serra da Estrela Natural Park, this unconventional pairing...