Let’s be honest—many of today’s skylines are about as exciting as a bowl of plain oatmeal. Endless rows of glass boxes and concrete rectangles that make you wonder if architects collectively lost ...

As with Hawaiian shirts and Lionel Richie, it's always a testament to the fickle whims of fashion and fancy when something way out of style becomes so beloved again. Culture is a vulture. In the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Terunobu Fujimori designed Tagasuki-an. This interesting tea house is high above the ground, on the top of two chestnut trees. He said that the tea house represents the ultimate personal architecture, ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

El Parque Biblioteca de España in Medellín, Colombia is a symbol of the city's dedication to public architecture. ... El Parque Biblioteca de España was designed by Bogotá-based architect Giancarlo ...

There are people who pass by downtown Portland buildings without ever looking up. Others, like architectural writer Brian Libby, can’t walk by without thinking about each structure’s history, public ...

Midcentury modern is a term that’s thrown around a lot these days, but what is it really? Midcentury-modern architecture is not simply anything that was designed and built in the middle of the 20th ...