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Andrew Block (1895-1966) was first engineer and worked in a factory until he met in 1921 with Le Corbusier's influence and the fact th...

The Yanomami are the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America. They live in the rainforests and mountains of northern Brazil an...

- Palm Leaf Houses - "Traditional buildings made from the leaves of date palms have provided shelter from the extreme climate of the ...

Buried 300 meters below Naica mountain in the Chihuahuan Desert, this astonishing cave was discovered by two miners in 2000. Mexico's C...

Lubetkin seems to have seen this building as an opportunity to creatively explore the possibilities of a new building material available i...

NASA's Crawler-Transporters are the largest tracked vehicles in existence. Although the crawlers pack over 5,000 horsepower, their top...

An impressive and brave highrise conglomerate in the desert Shibam is often called "the oldest skyscraper city in the world" or...

Highlights: Desert that has reclaimed houses. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland ...

Waterfalls are some of the most majestic and mysterious sites in the world, but getting close can not only be difficult, but also dangerou...

The police station was carved probably centuries ago, and it might have been an ancient roman tomb, since most of the carved hoodoos (Fair...

The Balancing Barn is situated on a beautiful site by a small lake in the quintessentially English countryside. The building takes the fo...

The Wawona Tree, also known as the Wawona Tunnel Tree, was a famous giant sequoia that stood in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park. It...

When people from abroad that are interested in architecture comes and visit us, they usually asks if we can recommend any piece they shoul...

The Icelandic turf houses was the product of a difficult climate, offering superior insulation compared to buildings solely made of wood ...

Westerlund, a Swedish immigrant, who back in Sweden had worked as a cabinet-maker, took on the task of hollowing out one particularly robu...

Ice climbers flock to The Fang in Vail, Colorado. The enormous ice pillar forms from the cascading waterfall only on exceptionally cold wi...

A traditional Owambo homestead was a large maze of wooden fences surrounding a group of round wood huts with thatched roofs and sand flo...

From the architect. The West Brabant Water Line is a defense-line consisting of a series of fortresses and cities with inundation areas in...

From the architect. Our client contacted us with an idea to create a hideaway in the countryside where he could “hole up” and gather stren...

Villa Mecklin is located in the Finnish archipelago. It sits in a small depressions in the rock, its sheltered terrace extending over the ...

The fierce hurricane Gudrun swept over Southern Sweden in January 2005 and caused over 300 000 000 trees to fall in this region, an airbas...

The Bliss Valley Tweed Mill built to resemble a great house in a park and far removed from the simplicity of Early Victorian industrial ar...

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The movie starts at what seems like a small house in a natural setting. Mickey walks out the door and says, "Oh boy! What a day!...

- Conical Intersect - Gordon Matta-Clark - Paris - 1975 - Conical Intersect, Matta-Clark’s contribution to the Paris Biennale of 1975, man...

Each of these architectural concepts treated the standard "big box" prototype as the subject matter for an art statement. By mean...

Discovered by Christopher Columbus on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe in 1493, pineapples became a rare delicacy in Europe, and were sy...

The Sharp Centre for Design was built to accommodate an expansion of the Ontario College of Art & Design in downtown Toronto. The pro...

The new building for the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil designed by Portugal´s Alvaro Siza, is a big rectangular white c...

The Sacred Mosque, is the largest mosque in the world. Located in the city of Mecca, it surrounds the Kaaba, the place which Muslims turn ...

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The exterior shape of the house might be seen as a prototypical house. A sloping roof, a tall chimney and large windows remind one of a ch...

In the hot, expansive Karakum desert in Turkmenistan, near the 350 person village of Derweze, is a hole 100 meters wide that has been on f...

The Salar de Uyuni, a sea of salt, a salt desert, in southwestern Bolivia, was once an inland sea, or giantsalt water lake, but the water ...

An earthquake shook the western edge of Sicily in the Belice river valley. Gibellina was among twelve towns completely destroyed, though r...

In 1983, eleven of the islands situated in Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, were surrounded with 6.5 million square feet (603,870 square meter...

On the banks of Honghe River in South China's Yunnan Province are millions of acres of agricultural and ecological wonders - otherwise...

Moraine Lake is a glacially fed lake in Banff National Park, 14 kilometres outside the Village of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. It is situ...

Jellyfish Lake is one of Palau's most famous dive (snorkeling only) sites. It is notable for the millions of golden jellyfish which mi...

The Wigwam Motels, also known as the "Wigwam Villages", is a motel chain in the United States in which the rooms are built in th...

This little resort area in sanzhai was build by local contractors commissioned by the government, but a series of work related accidents l...

Some of the spectacular hills of sand are, at a height of 300 metres, the highest in the world.

he Money Bin is a three-cubic-acre building where Scrooge McDuck stores the portions of his money that he earned by himself. It was origin...

550 kilometers from Manila, rises a near perfect cone volcano; the famous Mayon Volcano. Its symmetrical form at any horizontal direction ...

Robie House was designed and built between 1908 and 1910 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and is renowned as the greatest example of the P...

The Rietveld Schröder House constitutes both inside and outside a radical break with all architecture before it. The two-story house is s...