Courtyard Homes, published by Phaidon, is a new monograph that opens the doors to the most soothing feature of homes around ...

Text description provided by the architects. Courtyard House is a heritage-listed interwar bungalow. From the street, there is no visible presence of an addition beyond. But the Hawthorn home has ...

Program: ARCHSTUDIO renovated a traditional Chinese quadrangle (called Siheyuan) containing three houses, into a modern, single-family residence in a hutong of Beijing. The original compound consisted ...

From this Latin American culture comes a spatial logic in which daily life is organized in a relational and expansive way. Practices such as sitting at the front door, occupying the sidewalk, and ...

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann's firm Studio Other Spaces has enclosed a courtyard at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in New York with an intricate glass canopy. Drawing inspiration ...

For the architectural scholar Xing Ruan, an understanding of the Chinese courtyard is “an effective tool to unlock the Chinese state of mind, and the meaning of things Chinese.” This is a bold ...

Influential architectural solutions sometimes emerge from specific zoning or code constraints. In New York, the 1916 setback requirements bred an entire language of massing (think of Hugh Ferriss’s ...

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has produced one of its most eye-catching designs we've seen in a while with its newly unveiled O-Tower. The building is envisioned as a R&D headquarters for Chinese ...

Courtyards lived in by multiple families used to be a common form of residence in China, giving shape to people's conceptions of the relations between body and space, individuality and collectivity. A ...

Khaberni - The Architectural Engineering Division of the Jordan Engineers Association organized an intellectual seminar ...

A church courtyard in Richmond redesigned by Virginia Tech students will be dedicated on April 18. Here is a press release from the university: A group of Virginia Tech landscape architecture students ...