Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Orange County campus, sought an exuberant architecture which would support and enhance the learning experience. In addition to accommodating 200 hundred students and 50 staff, the school possesses a large collection of valuable books, garments and fabrics.

This interesting a 3,500-square-foot multilevel home was built in 1975 by Ian Morrison, who took inspiration for the design from Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.”  In case you wanted to compare the house to the Lord of the Rings again click here and find savings [...]

Koray Duman is an architect from Turkey, who recently renovated the East Village apartment he bought in January of 2007. The space is really clean and stylish. The 600-square-foot apartment, with its tangle of tiny rooms, had six windows, three exposures and an unusual floor [...]

This is a wonderful SoHo loft with a light-filled space made rich with rough brick walls, a sculptural masonry fireplace and wooden ceiling joists. The owners are Natalya and Eugene Kashper.

RIO DE JANEIRO is a place with jungles, forests and all kind of plants, flowers and trees. Today the Brazilian Landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx came along and organizing native plants in accordance with aesthetic principles, especially Cubism  and abstractionism. He created a modern grammer [...]

Large shell shaped structure finds itself in the middle of the woods. A frame, a shape, made at a completely different place for a completely different purpose. Within this shell shaped structure will one find floors constructed, wall separating spaces, and rooms furnished.

The project is integrated into ‘Custom House’ in Sydney, Australia. The space is filled with 3-dimensional lightweight-sculpture, freely stretching between wall and ceiling and floor. LAVA‚Äôs process of optimized minimal surface design and CNC (computer numeric code) fabrication technology allows the sculpture to reveal a [...]

Sea Ranch is a name with a huge aura. It is possible at once to lose and to find yourself on a path, following it past tumbledown picket fences to a driftwood throne on a secluded beach. In the early 1960s, a group of architects [...]

This a wonderful home for two plus a dog. The house  is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. Second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor [...]

This spectacular villa is situated at snow-hills in Switzerland. The building was arranged on the periphery of the property so that the distance to the neighboring houses was as large as possible and so that the option of constructing another building could be left open.