There is something about the high-desert prairie lands that indeed seems to invite the long lines and simple naturalistic materials that date back to Frank Lloyd Wright and the so-called Prairie Style approach to designing and building homes. In…
Interior corners can be one of the most vexing places in interior spaces to design in or around. Round furniture in particular never sits neatly against the wall – but what if you divided an ordinarily curved light fixture…
Going green does not just mean eco-friendly building systems and sustainable construction materials. It can also imply a blending with the landscape – an implied recognition that our structures come second to nature. That, at least, is the idea…
Despite its offbeat appearance, this home office design idea by Davidson Rafailidis is more about function than form – selective insulation of spaces to minimize wasted energy without compromising on creature comforts, creating a balance within a larger area…
As this incredible warehouse conversion illustrates, the true art of remodeling old industrial or otherwise decaying urban buildings into new houses lies not in what you renovate away but what historical design elements you choose to leave in place.…
Simple modern office furniture can become static, stale and uncomfortable over time, while fully transforming furniture objects can be a bit too binary at times – convertible objects which are either one thing or another: desks that become chairs,…
Digital photo editing makes all kinds of images possible – but Julia Fullerton-Batten did not need edit her photos in creating these incredibly strange suburban and city scenes featuring models spectacularly out of scale with their surroundings, giants in…
The closer you come to the center of a city the more difficult it is to find unused space available for new construction, except perhaps at the cost of all-too-valuable public parks and other civic places. Building above and…
Living underground sounds disturbing - cavernous designs, claustrophobic images of cramped quarters and fuzzy pictures with low light levels come quickly to mind. A well-planned underground home , however, can be designed precisely around these problems to have all…
As wireless as our world has become, there are still many cords snaking along the floors and walls of most of our homes. This designer has taken a fresh look at the issue of storing cables, hiding cords and…