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The most famous sustainable buildings in the high-rise category are not the ones with the most solar panels. They are towers where a single design decision, a planted facade, a twisted form, a wind tunnel cut through the floor plate, does the environmental work. Six of them have set the terms every architect now designs against.
Tall buildings were the last typology an...
São Paulo, Brazil, 2026 – The ADR project, designed by Studio Elã, was conceived for the first apartment of a young couple with a cat. The brief called for integrated spaces, a dedicated area for the pet, and two separate workstations for the residents, who work from home with simultaneous meetings.
An indust...
ArchiSnapper is a mobile field report and punch list app for architects, engineers, and contractors, now part of Deltek. This ArchiSnapper review looks at how it captures site observations, annotates plans, and generates branded PDF reports in minutes, along with its pricing, how it compares to PlanGrid, and the firms it suits best.
Site visits create a pile of photos,...
Every apartment has walls. This one is organized around a single object.
Located in a historic residential building in Prague, Red Dot Apartment rethinks the traditional apartment layout by replacing a series of enclosed rooms with one multifunctional architectural core. Instead of pushing kitchens, bathrooms, and storage to the perimeter, the project concentrates them...
The Frida Kahlo apartment building at 36-52 Calhoun Terrace on Telegraph Hill is on the market for $8 million. Built in the late 1930s as the Hoeffler Building, it steps down a blasted bedrock cliff in eleven units. Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived in Unit 42 while he painted Pan American Unity.
Most coverage of the listing has treated it as a celebrity property story. The...