Knize Adolf Loos designed the shop in 1913 and nobody has had a better idea since
The Galerie d'Apollon The Louvre's jewel room, reopened with every case emptied on purpose
Bundle It worked for a hundred years Three enormous answers to one specific problem each, and all three held.
How Buildings Learn Six hours on what happens to a building after the architect leaves
Lazareto de Menorca An island laid out so that 111,184 people could arrive without touching anyone
The House of David Bowie Hauptstraße 155, where strangers still tuck roses into the iron door
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library A Snøhetta library in the Badlands where an AI Roosevelt takes your questions
Huset, Longyearbyen the world's northernmost fine dining, remade by Snøhetta
Bundle Places on a longer clock Four places that keep time in centuries and continents, not hours.
John Margolies Roadside America Archive 11,710 free photos of the teapot gas stations and doughnut shops America paved over
Lai Tak Tsuen Estate Hong Kong's only cylindrical public housing — four 1976 drums around open-air atria, and still someone's home
Bundle Not built to be visited A workplace, a hill, and a home. None of them was built for you.
Finds
- Eéso by Nema A hotel built inside another hotel's garden
- Cup of Joy Istanbul's stone walls, rebuilt in clay in Marylebone
- Nelson House A composed brick front that spent October 1781 inside the siege lines
- Ali Hill's Embroidered Buildings Architecture drawn once by hand, then again by sewing machine
- Red Sea Terminal An airport ceiling shaped like the water outside it
- Iglesia de la Asunción La Gomera's fifteenth-century church, still in use
- Salubria Preserved, deliberately not restored — the stucco is still coming off the 1757 brick
- Gregg-Crites Octagon House An eight-sided Ohio farmhouse where the rooms are cut like slices of pie
- Corbel The bracket that lets a wall hold something it isn't under
- How Buildings Learn Stewart Brand's six-part series, scored by Brian Eno, free to watch
- Lazareto de Menorca A walled island built so nobody could touch anyone else
- Cattedrale di San Nicolò The cathedral of a town rebuilt ten kilometres away, all at once
- Post Office and Telecommunications Center, Skopje A lotus-shaped brutalist dome built for rebirth, gutted by fire
- Burpee Covered Bridge A 1913 kissing bridge, still posted at 3.1 metres
- St Olaf's Church, Wasdale Head England's smallest parish church, seating 39 under beams said to be Viking
- Casa Bonavita A 1715 Maltese palazzo, seven years in the restoring
- Gates of Heaven Synagogue A 200-ton 1863 synagogue rolled a mile through Madison to save it
- Grace Cathedral in 3D Fly through the stained glass of a San Francisco cathedral in a browser tab
- The House of David Bowie Hauptstraße 155, where strangers still tuck roses into the iron door
- H.H. Richardson House The only house the Trinity Church architect ever built for himself
- Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library A Snøhetta library in the Badlands where an AI Roosevelt takes your questions
- Tongyili & Tongdeli A Shanghai gangster's Suzhou retreat, built with doors that face each other
- Gate of the Orient A Suzhou tower so trouser-shaped it drew an official complaint about weird buildings
- John Margolies Roadside America Archive 11,700 free photos of teapot gas stations and doughnut-shaped shops
- Lai Tak Tsuen Estate Four 1976 concrete drums, each hollow to the sky
- Nashville's Parthenon A full-scale Parthenon — gilded 42-foot Athena and all — in Tennessee
- The Longaberger Basket Building A seven-story office in the shape of a picnic basket
- Casa Tepeji A blue-stucco townhouse on Roma's most cinematic street
- Haskell Free Library & Opera House 1904 opera house where the US–Canada border runs through the seats
- The Boat House, Shelter Island An iconic modernist house on Long Island's quietest corner
- Amangiri Private Residences Six-bedroom desert villa with lap pool in Canyon Point, Utah
- He Built the City: Joe Macken's NYC Scale Model A 20-year scale model of every building in New York City, at the MCNY
- Robert Mondavi Winery (reopened) Napa's Mondavi reopens after a 5-year renovation
- The Desert Wave Awe-inspiring modernist statement in Palm Desert
- Casa Siza A Pritzker-Prize Álvaro Siza house in Mexico City that doubles as a public art gallery
- Capella Kyoto Kengo Kuma-designed hotel that feels like an old townhouse, not a chain
- Casa Nano 2.0 Japanese micro-house where every cubic inch does something
- The Honu Villa, Joshua Tree Desert modernist house with a terrazzo-floored courtyard
- Hôtel Villa Colette, Cap Ferret Philippe Starck designs a coastal villa that's almost cartoonish on purpose