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This contemporary house by Pad Architecture sits on a one-acre lot in West Sussex, England. The spacious lot holds the six-bedroom house built in 2010, a heated pool, a separate studio building, and a remote terrace that overlooks the rural setting.
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Scientists at Rice University have found a new form of toughened silicone, which they anticipate will be applied to a wide variety of products, ranging from electronic displays to self-healing polymers.
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Architect and instructor Gia Wolff has won the inaugural Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship presented by Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
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Food service is crowding out retail in well-to-do parts of America's downtowns, while poor city areas suffer from a lack of food availability.
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Miami Beach Square—a 52-acre redevelopment proposal by BIG with West 8, Fentress, and JPA—would replace the Miami Beach Convention Center.
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The winners' list for the Cooper-Hewitt's 2013 National Design Awards includes several architects.
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Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, a new biography by Gregory L. Heller, explores his role as a Philadelphia planner and as a third way between the visions of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses.
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Four custom homes and two larger-scale housing complexes top this year’s entries.
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Built in 1960, the Cecile and Bryce DeWitt House was the last house designed and built in North Carolina by Modernist architect George Matsumoto. Designed for two physicists and their four daughters, the five-bedroom house sits on 55 acres that border a lake on the outskirts of Chapel Hill, N.C.
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An early 19th-century device that enabled users to draw lifelike images before the invention of the camera is making a comeback due to a Kickstarter proposal.
