Aug 13, 2025
From the now-defunct Longaberger basket company’s iconic Ohio headquarters to the distinctive Casa de Penedo — Portuguese for “boulder house” — the world has no shortage of quirky, fanciful, and just plain strange structures. Forthcoming from Hoxton...
Aug 12, 2025
As the World’s Fair loomed on Chicago’s horizon, architects Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham built a 98-unit hotel to house visitors. After the exposition was finished, the Romanesque Revival building with a large central courtyard was...
Aug 4, 2025
The apocryphal “let them eat cake” legend has never been more fitting … (screenshot Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic via @Pleightx on X) President Trump has proposed a $200 million state ballroom off the White House’s East Wing, the newest addition to his...
Aug 1, 2025
Gabrielle Garland may not depict people in her square-format, mixed-media paintings, yet the works might as well be described as portraits. From mailboxes and landscape choices to colorful stoops and glowing interior lights, her vibrant depictions of houses seem to...
Jul 23, 2025
For sale: a 1,046-foot-tall, 77-story building with a footprint of 1,196,958 square feet, constructed in a steel frame and adorned in gray and white brick with reinforced steel accents, constructed 95 years ago. Located at 42nd and Lexington Avenue in New York City,...
Jul 14, 2025
The history of photography has made it clear that the camera is a subjective tool. The glass lens frames the story differently depending on who is doing the looking, and how. So what are we to make of the images of a woman in a glass house, the history of which has...
Jun 13, 2025
What does it mean to live on NATO’s external border in times of geopolitical conflict? The Latvian Pavilion, one of the most captivating and relevant exhibitions at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, looks at the military defence of the Baltic state from the...
May 20, 2025
The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication, by art and architectural historian Carlotta Darò. She is Associate Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais and currently a guest senior researcher at ETH Zurich....