The World Is A Canvas – Mind Bending Perspective Art

If you only like looking at art in museums, you might never experience the ingenius, perspective-based art of Felice Varini, a Swiss artist who sees the whole world as his canvas.

The Skyward House Lives Up to Its Name

The aptly named Skyward House is relatively secluded from some angles. But it actually faces a pretty well-trafficked road, so the architect had to design it with features that make it feel private. More »

Most Beautiful Items: March 16-22, 2013

You get to the end of the week and your eyeballs are just about ready to fall out of your head. Don’t let that happen. Here’s a little restorative reprieve in the form of the most beautiful things we found this week. More »

This Giant, Twisting Garden of a Tower Mimics Our Own DNA

A marriage of microbiology and vertical gardening, Taipei’s currently-under-construction Agora Garden will be a twisting, blossoming double helix amplified to massive proportion. More »

Iceberg Ahead! Oh Wait, That’s an Apartment Building

You know what trumps boring loft building after boring loft building after boring loft building? An apartment complex that looks like a giant iceberg, like this one in Aarhus, Denmark. More »

21 Wonders From the Future of Decor

The Architectural Digest Show—running from Friday through Sunday in NYC—will make you wish you had a huge house and unlimited funds with which to decorate it. From crazy range hoods to beautiful woodworking to outdoor showers, the show floor has just about everything you could imagine adorning your home with. Here are some of the best things we saw. More »

How Many Tetris Pieces Would You Need To Build a House?

It was the game that defined a revolution in handheld gaming, but during the countless hours you spent playing Tetris and neatly organizing falling tetrominoes, did you ever stop and wonder how many of those pieces you’d need to build a full-size house? Probably not, after all what kid spends their time imagining about home engineering? More »

The Light-Filled Louver House Is Not a Barn

The Louver House is situated on the edge of an agricultural reserve in Long Island. Sheathed in a skin of slatted louvers that flood the place with natural light, it’s supposed to capture the feeling of a traditional barn, although barn it is not. More »

This Building Is Too Insane To Be a Bank

The Nord LB Building is freaking crazy. Located in Hanover, Germany, it’s home to one of the country’s largest banks and is far too absurd to be home to a financial institution. More »

An Amazing 240-Square Foot Apartment Works Like a Magical Jewelry Box

Did you think a 420-square-foot apartment sounded impossible to live in? Try 240-square-feet. Somehow, New York City architect Tim Seggerman renovated an Upper West Side space to make that postage stamp-sized space feel like work like magic. And he even made room for a washing machine! More »