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Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Pioneer of Supergraphics, Dies at 95

Trained as a ballet dancer, painter and graphic designer, she was at the forefront of a movement that upended design…

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Can You Build a House Out of Paper? Shigeru Ban Says Yes.

A new version of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s Paper Log House is on display at the Glass House in New…

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The 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years

How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in…

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How Do You Build a Jungle?

THE ARCHITECTS MARCIO Kogan and Renata Furlanetto of the Brazilian firm Studio MK27 had just broken ground on a new…

Finance

A Growth Spurt in Green Architecture

Buildings made shaggy with vegetation or fragrant with wood are no longer novelties.

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Antoine Predock, Architect Who Channeled the Southwest, Dies at 87

His striking, acclaimed structures evoked the desert. But for major projects elsewhere in the world, he adopted the same principle:…

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The Incredible Expanding $150,000 House: It’s Not 500 Square Feet Anymore.

Even a quarter of a century ago, the one-bedroom house was a bargain in Los Angeles. Several renovations later, it’s…

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‘An Incoherent Riot’: Why London’s Skyline Looks So Weird

London has a jarring profusion of odd skyscrapers with funny names or nicknames. There are the Shard and the Scalpel,…

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In Tokyo, Rescuing the Residential Spaceship That Fell to Earth

Fifty years ago, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was hailed as a marvel of biological design. Now its legacy lives on…

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In Rio de Janeiro, Architecture That’s in Sync With the Jungle

FOR AT LEAST half a decade, Juliana Ayako has been fascinated by a strange, slapdash house on a bare hillside…

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