Inspiration: Stories

This mirrored-glass prefabricated home by Estonian company ÖÖD was created in hopes of becoming the hottest new trend in the peer-to-peer housing business.

Zaha Hadid Design’s first full-size kitchen tool is a miniature sculpture of the firm’s larger work.

Their latest installation of “In Residence” takes us behind the scenes of Mark Haddawy’s 1950s home.

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 working on his first book, Breaking the Box: Explode out of Architecture School to a Successful Career as an Architect. One of the most important and overlooked traits for…

The New York-based studio harnesses the power of HP's Z2 Mini Workstation to create its stand-out st ructures.

While the kitchen has long been considered the heart of the home, many people don’t take advantage o f its potential for entertaining guests. Kitchens are more than just utilitarian rooms in today’s modern world; they can be beautiful and multifunctional, as well. But to be beautiful and serve several purposes at once, they must be…

City halls are something of an architectural oddity. They are vital to the overriding functionality of a place and impact our lives every day, yet they often have no physical connection with the general public, standing as urban ornaments that can appear more like abstract symbols than vibrant civic hubs. The truth of the matter…

This multifamily residential complex offers maximum privacy and a mix of indoor-outdoor living.

When one of the world’s leading building-product manufacturers sets out to build a state-of-the-art headquarters, it needn’t look further than its own portfolio of high-performance materials. And that’s just what Saint-Gobain did two years ago for its new North American headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania. But, convenience aside, the company’s use of its own products to…