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Anya Moryoussef Architect inventively reconstructs a 112-year-old delicately proportioned, light-filled home, built on its original foundations, forming part of a vernacular - a turn-of-the-century housing typology that has almost completely disappeared from the city of Toronto.

Bureau Fraai crafts an adaptive reuse project by designing a psychological practice with a 'labyrinth' pattern floor in a monumental chapel in the city centre of Amsterdam. The playful labyrinth flooring gives the central open space a human scale and a unique identity, its circular, green-coloured carpet tiles, averring to the treatments the practice offers helping people to 'find their way back'.

Aptly named 'tweening arches', this captivating facade design by rat[LAB] Studio is crafted for the Head Field Headquarters, a façade design that integrates aesthetics with functionality, setting a new standard for contemporary architecture. It forms a showstopper and a striking architectural landmark in Noida, making passersby pause and look up! 

Turner Road Architecture designs a striking, head-turning piece of architecture with its light-filled contemporary design aesthetic that stands out amidst a beautifully landscaped area in the rural outskirts of Hamilton. This café for the Tamahere Country Club (a luxury retirement village) residents has also become a popular social hub for locals and visitors to the region.

Nestled in the heart of Portugal, this residential gem, by Ippolito Fleitz Group, unfolds like a multi-layered tapestry, where each detail is intricately woven to craft a space that serves as both, a private sanctuary and a vibrant stage. Brimming with character and stories, the home by thrives on the art of juxtaposition, creating an environment that is as visually captivating as it is inviting. 

This 3,600 sq. ft. penthouse in Ahmedabad by Prashant Parmar Architect transforms the idea of vertical living-crafted for a family moving from a spacious bungalow, the home balances openness, texture, and light with sculptural finesse. From a custom hanging staircase to terrace-linked bedrooms and a vertical garden with a traditional Jharokha̅ twist-this space is as much about emotional comfort as it is about spatial elegance. What would your dream penthouse look like?

Architect Lakshmi Swaminathan's A Call to Return is more than a book-it's a journey into the philosophy, creativity, and humanity of the legendary Didi Contractor. Reviewed by architect Chitra Vishwanath, this book captures the essence of a life dedicated to design, nature, and soulful living. A must-read for those who believe architecture is more than just structures-it's about harmony, rhythm, and connection.

Crafting lightness and warmth in a luxury Bengaluru apartment, White Shadows Design Studio redefines modern family living. Discover how a balanced palette, materiality, and spatial flow transform a 2,700 sq. ft. home into an airy sanctuary tailored for a relocating family.

Can a mithai store feel like a design narrative? At Saffron & Mishri's boutique space in Mumbai, RE:neev rewires nostalgia through crafted textures, lime-plastered walls, Kantha-inspired details, and a restrained palette of kota, brass, and wood. From immersive retail to a serene terrace café, this is tradition reimagined-layered, tactile, and quietly indulgent.

Set in a farmland milieu, Atelier Design N Domain design a single-family home in Vadodara establishing a strong inside-outside connect and addressing the various aspects of a contemporary lifestyle. Read on to know more here… 

Building skin imparts a character to a place, externally; and is a major parameter for building performance, internally. rat[LAB]-Research in Architecture & Technology designs a façade project in Gurgaon for an industrial building using parametric techniques that have overcome multiple constraints. Find out more about the result here...

Architecture_Interspace designs an ice-cream parlour using the softee swirl as a focal element of the interior design. Check out how a simple colourful idea spins a nondescript space into a happening layout…

Knowing how to build a steel building is not expected from laymen. It is for this reason that steel building kits are becoming a favourite among the novice builders.

The need of the hour is to change the old mindset of "profit, the more the better"-which is both sub-optimal for corporate long-term survival and sometimes almost criminally narrow. Corporate "social responsibility," sustainability, and a lot more, can lead a corporation to a more positive mindset. Leadership and cultural adjustments with omnipresent advantages will also play a major role.

Ever wonder what it's like to live out a fantasy? Jean Verville architecte creates a fairytale-like home for a family in the woods, check out it out and leave us your views…

In our East Berlin article of Colonial Days, we show a picture of a man using a shaving horse to trim cedar shakes. We also show the use of a shaving horse in our cooper article. Jack the Cooper came up with his own plans to build the shaving horse he uses. There are two traditional styles of shaving horses, the English bodgeris bench and the Continental schnitzelbank or dumbhead. There is pictorial evidence of the dumbhead being used in the 15th and 16th centuries, although the English style does not show up until the late 19th century.

Watch what's left of a once distinguished architectural legacy be destroyed because our city is run by idiots. Consider this quote: ""Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Alderman Matlak said. "A lot of people don't want 19th-century buildings.I grew up in a frame house. My bedroom was 8 by 8. People don't want that now." Then - here's a wild idea. Maybe they might try moving into one of the neighborhoods that isn't historic? Which, in Chicago, is almost all of them, now? Speaking as somebody who lives in Chicago, I can report that the difference of opinion between the developers and the preservationists on this is not an honest one; the rate of demolition has not been exaggerated one bit..