Month: October 2023

Snøhetta has completed an addition to a Norwegian-American museum and folk art school in Iowa, which includes a large wooden oculus and a mass-timber frame. Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, explores the Norwegian-American immigration experience through folk and fine ar in Decorah, Iowa. Snøhetta created an 8,000 square feet (743 square

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On a first approach to the site, its features seemed very familiar, formed by “socalcos” a kind of staggered landscape traditional to the Portuguese region of Douro vineyards, whose schist walls sharply graze the scenery. It didn’t exactly invite construction…

PAX Architects has completed a modern summer house in Skagen, Denmark, whose design pays tribute to the local architecture and history of the town it’s located in. The materials chosen for the home were inspired by the houses built in Skagen’s Black Period, when charred wood from shipwrecks was often used to build them, and […]

If there’s one room that has enjoyed a well-deserved glow-up in recent years, it’s the laundry room. Once relegated to dark garages, unfinished basements and other dreary areas of a home, laundry rooms now command attention in premium spaces. Here, de…

Subterranean museums, houses sunken beneath the earth and a wine cellar dug into a Texas hillside all feature in this roundup of buildings buried underground. Tirpitz Bunker, Denmark, by BIG Danish studio BIG cut linear passageways into a sand dune to form an “invisible museum” next to a Nazi bunker on the headland of Blåvand. The four

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