n Most of us picture a laboratory as a sleek, sterile box of steel and glass perched on a university campus or inside some tech park. The Witoca Laboratory in Ecuador is none of those things. Built from adobe, shaped like a three-pointed star, and sitting quietly inside the buffer zone of the Sumaco Biosphere…

n The idea that tiny living demands sacrifice is one that the Starling quietly dismantles. Built by Rewild Homes out of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, this 33-foot gooseneck tiny house was conceived with a growing family at the center of every decision. It doesn’t ask you to lower your expectations; it just reshapes…

n Every sawmill in the world produces it. Every furniture factory, every timber yard, every construction site that cuts wood leaves behind a pile of the stuff, and globally that adds up to hundreds of millions of tonnes of sawdust every year. Most of it gets burned for energy, which is a reasonable enough fate…

n Most public sculptures are meant to be looked at from the outside. You walk past, glance up, maybe take a photo, and move on. The relationship between the object and the person stops at the surface. Five Fragmented Cubes, a large-scale interactive sculpture made of painted steel, refuses that arrangement entirely: it was built…

n When Mark Bullivant, principal at South African architecture studio SAOTA, came across a steep, impossibly narrow plot in Cape Town’s Tamboerskloof neighborhood, most architects would have walked away. He bought it. The result is Kenmore — a personal home that quietly dismantles every assumption about what a tight site can hold. n The numbers…

n The architectural world is shifting toward materials that feel grounded, honest, and deeply connected to the earth. Instead of relying on high-energy industrial products, designers and homeowners are embracing approaches that honor the planet’s natural tectonics. In this movement toward true sustainability, rammed earth has re-emerged as a powerful, modern choice for those seeking…

n The first time I saw a photo of Klumpen, I thought someone had dropped a monolith into the Arctic tundra. A matte black pyramid, impossibly sharp against the snow, with a sliver of warm amber light cutting through its entrance. It looks like a prop from a science fiction film. But it is very…

n There is a moment, the architects at Snøhetta will tell you, when you step off the train at Qasr AlHokm and look up, and the entire city of Riyadh looks back at you. That is not a metaphor. It is exactly what happens beneath the station’s sweeping, mirror-polished stainless steel canopy, where a 360-degree…

n Most conversations about Big Tech and sustainability follow a familiar script: a company announces a carbon pledge, releases an environmental report full of impressive-sounding numbers, and everyone moves on. What rarely gets discussed is the messy, unglamorous reality sitting right at the center of it all: the data server room. That’s exactly where two…