As you drive around our neighborhoods, have you noticed how some homes dramatically stand out from the rest? Sure, it may be a beautiful house, but often it is more than just the house. Most likely, ...

Architects have tossed around the idea of 3-D printing buildings, but Universe Architect's first one could have a twist. Inspired by the Mobius strip, Janjaap Ruijssenaars' house design wraps around ...

In 1993 a young professional couple with two toddlers and a large suburban lot in Naarden, a town less than half an hour's drive southeast of Amsterdam, approached Ben van Berkel to design an unusual ...

If you want to see the imagination of landscape architects run wild, invite them to design an imaginary landscape for a Rudolph Schindler-designed home. That’s what curators Mia Lehrer and the MAK ...

Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars has designed a 12,000-square-foot "house with no beginning or end," and he plans to build the entire thing using only a 3D printer. The conceptual two-story ...

It’s undeniable that landscape architects add immeasurable value to any building project—bringing their deep knowledge of everything from soil conditions and native plant species to environmental ...

As far as folks in the historic preservation business are concerned, the trouble with gardens is that they grow. The art of landscape design is a dialogue with the forces of nature. And that makes the ...

Microclimates are created by every landscape that is created and house built. As soon as the house is built the microclimate of its landscape is created. The landscape enhances this created ...