Inspiration

From a cozy corner shop to a cavernous underground store, these bookshops are capable of housing mor e than just books.

When it comes to designing storage space for multifamily residential projects, architects today must take a number of variables into consideration. First, is the project being designed for a developer or a realtor? When it’s completed, will it be turned over quickly for an immediate profit or held onto for long-term gain? And is it…

To be a true “citizen architect,” you must do more than push a pen, or a mouse, around all day, argu es Lora Teagarden.

Clad in concrete, each project consists of a clear-cut geometric volume, which carefully pulls from the natural colors of the surrounding landscape's forests and rock formations.

Over the past decade, early-adopter architects at Bohlin Cywinski Jackson have discovered new ways t o take on design challenges using BIM software. They have routinely integrated their designs into a connected BIM workflow in Autodesk Revit. Today, Dynamo software often takes the lead in that process. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s Sawyer Library at Williams College Dynamo,…

Take an architectural tour through the vineyards and valleys of California's wine regions.

Steve Ramos is passionate about design and architecture. He is the founder of the BUILDINGS ARE COOL blog, an Architect for LS3P in Charleston, S.C., and is working on his first book, Breaking the Box: Explode out of Architecture School to a Successful Career as an Architect. Money plays a tiny role in architecture school…

Explore seven more examples of the ways bamboo can be cut, twisted, bent and constructed to create i nnovative works of architecture.

Like portals into a subterranean world, many of these giant wells are up to 10 stories deep.