A celebration of the best in world-class architecture and architects. From the most architectural homes, architectural landmarks and architectural design to case studies from all around world to profiles about and with the incredible people that build and design them.
Exquisitely situated in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve bordering South Africa’s Kruger National Park, Cheetah Plains is as sleek and captivating as its namesake and every bit as steeped in the natural environment of which it is so strikingly part.
The landscape with the plantings of hundreds of trees and a new Shearers’ Quarters building, Captain Kelly’s Cottage was first built at the mariner’s bidding (likely by ship hands) for his daughter Mary in the 1840s.
Renovating a historic house is a matter of passion and dedication and the team behind Australian firm B.E Architecture—led by Broderick Ely, Jonathon Boucher, and Andrew Piva—know it.
If not hyperaware of the elephant in the room—Frank Lloyd Wright and his architectural opus Fallingwater—the design team at internationally recognized architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson was aware nonetheless.
Both Hotel Mar Adentro and architect Miguel Angel Aragonés are revelations in their respective realms, and the same can be said of a site that captured the imagination. Behold the modern masterpiece that it became.
Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman were still undergraduates at the University of Southern California School of Architecture when they started designing tract homes during the post-war housing boom of the late 1940s.
South Bay Digs was granted an exclusive interview with Kappe in 2015, who shared his thoughts on everything from environmentally friendly design to the unique challenges Southern California’s urban landscape poses to architects today.
Washington DC has no shortage of statues and memorials and museums—the nation’s capital is nothing if not in love with its institutions. Among its most impressive physical tributes is the original Carnegie Library, a historic Beaux-Arts beauty on Mount Vernon Square
La Granja Ibiza is a place like no other. Launched in collaboration with international association Friends of a Farmer, the property—a Design Hotels member—is spread over almost 25 acres and dates back to 1816.
Coated in shiny red paint, the door of this Whistler home’s main entrance is an invitation to step inside the 6,000-square-foot space set in the Coast Mountains of western Canada. Designed by Olson Kundig for a couple and their children, the home acts as a gathering place for the family.
ell-known in Venice circles as “The California Poppy House” due to the exterior’s eye-catching silhouette of the state flower etched into a second-floor aluminum screen and bright-red accents on the bottom level, this timeless yet modern gem at 732 Brooks Ave.
Designed by Heliotrope Architects, this Seattle house of a young couple has an art studio at its heart.
