To learn the history of a new destination, travelers should look no further than its most famous buildings. Of course, there are other ways to discover the local culture, which can be reflected in the food, the textiles, and the dialects, but it’s the buildings...
“It was an enchanted geodome,” says longtime Pacific Palisades resident Tamara Rawitt, of the area she called home. “It was enchanted.” Rawitt, an Emmy winner and cocreator and producer of In Living Color, lost her home in the catastrophic fire that devastated around 75% of...
Before the devastating Los Angeles fires this week, California already had a looming insurance crisis on its hands. Fast-forward to present day, as flames continue to burn in the greater Los Angeles area, harrowing reports have emerged of thousands of homeowners being dropped by their...
The human desire to build places for worship has often resulted in some of the most breathtaking architectural masterpieces in existence. From historic sites like the Pyramids of Giza or the Parthenon to modern marvels like the Lotus Temple in New Delhi or the Jubilee...
Lavaforming is a speculative project to harness lava flow as it is flowing after an eruption and use it as an architectural building material. Photo: Courtesy of S.ap Architects “We know lava has structural integrity because we have built columns from lava rocks to support whole houses,”...
“We designed the building two times,” Ken Lewis, partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the firm responsible for One World Trade Center’s design, explains to me. Lewis, who was the project manager for the new building, worked with design partner David Childs, and managing...
This fall, the brand is debuting the limited-edition luxe Golden House after a yearlong development process. “We decided to make the most expensive and most luxurious tiny home,” explains Jaak. “In [the tiny home] category, there are no [luxury products], and we’ve always liked to...
“In all the different places I went to, they all had recreated some kind of feeling of the home that they had to leave behind,” explains Wallander, who has shot the houses of figures like Alex Rodriguez, Michael S. Smith, and Adam Lippes for AD....
Designed by Perkins&Will, the Henrico County Public Schools Living Building for the Center for Environmental Studies and Sustainability in Virginia will be the world’s first ‘living’ environmental center for public schools when it's estimated to be completed at the end of 2026. Photo: Courtesy of Perkins&Will This...
Throughout the show, the digital canvas of Sphere bridged the past and present, continuing the band’s experimentation with digital art in multimedia environments since their inception. “The band is explorative so they’re not afraid to try new stuff,” Pattinson recalls. “But we simultaneously brought back...