Sand sculptures typically range from fantastic to amazingly realistic in style, but they rarely look as habitable as the architectural sandcastles created by Calvin Seibert, aka Box Builder.Calvin explores many diverse s...

(Photo: Jonathunder)See this gas station? It was designed by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright.Really! That's the same architect who designed Falling Water among other architectural gems. It might seem odd that Wright w...

Amager Bakke, a waste management company in Denmark, plans to build this massive incinerator in Copenhagen in 2017. When it’s finished, it’ll do more than burn trash. On top, it has a functional ski slope wit...

You've heard of it: the new Apple campus to be built in Cupertino, California, which looks like a futuristic circular spaceship. The new Pentagon-sized campus boasts space for 13,000+ employees, 1,000-seat flying saucer-...

(Photo: Iwan Baan)Sou Fujimoto, a Japanese architectural firm, previously designed a transparent house and one shaped like a Jenga tower. Recently, it designed a public access toilet that sits in a glass chamber in the m...

(Photos: Fernando Guerra)The wooden spiral stairca...  ...erican art acquisitions, their preferred style of architecture suffuses the geometric austerity of the European...  ...e tactile material richness of the subtropics. In architecture , Luis Barragán accomplished the feat of in...  ...present-day Bra...

(Image credit: Flickr user flowcomm)Ponte City, also called Ponte Tower, is a 54-story cylinder of apartments in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in 1975 as luxury housing. The 32,000-square-foot core of the buil...

(Photos: Felix Loechner)If you attend the Free University of Berlin, you’ll have to pay tuition despite its name. The school got its name because it was founded in West Berlin during the Cold War, so the name refer...

(Photo: Chris Burnside)We've previously seen the firm Olson Kundig Architects build a house in the San Juan Islands with a pop-up roof. Nearby, in Seattle, it upgraded the Gethsemane Lutheran Church with huge multicolore...

Would you live in a house shaped like a flying saucer? This building is a private home (although a famous one) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It's only one of eight buildings shaped like flying saucers in a list at the World...