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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…

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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 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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A Black Woman’s Rise in Architecture Shows How Far Is Left to Go

They have worked for decades to make their way in a profession that remains overwhelmingly white and male, but there…

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A Treehouse Builder Who Celebrates Impermanence

“CAN YOU FEEL it swaying?” Takashi Kobayashi asks, 30 feet or so up a camphor tree growing in the cramped…

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Beverly Willis, 95, Dies; Architect and Advocate for Women in the Field

With her own firm in San Francisco and a foundation in New York, she made it her mission to recognize…

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