Vince Donovan has been a fan of The Lord of the Rings his entire life, and has a collection of Tolkien memorabilia to prove it. Now he has a proper house to display it! Donovan hired architect Peter Archer to design a To...

This freaky and beautiful bridge is located in Purmerend, the Netherlands. The lower level is for bicycles and the top level is for pedestrians:This deck was designed as a pendulum over the water, so that the slope could...

A zoomorphic building is one shaped like an animal. The list of ten such buildings at Pets Lady has a dog, a sheep, a rabbit, two elephants, and five cats! That's understandable, because who could resist a building shape...

In an article last week, we read about how Ed Bernays convinced architects and builders to include bookshelves in new homes, in order to sell more books. There's a big difference between including them and designing a ho...

No ordinary dog house will do for your special pooch. Why, the Papillon is descended from the dogs of the Kings of France! That's why Kenya Hara commissioned architects to create themes appropriate for individual breeds,...

[http://youtu.be/NECN6tpwxCY] Last year, Adrienne told us about the narrowest house being built in Warsaw, Poland. Architect Jakub Szczesny wanted to convert a 3-foot-wide void between two buil...

Here's something you never expected to see! This picture from the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects annual ball in 1931 shows seven noted architects wearing costumes that resemble the New York City buildings they designed...

I've loved big old houses since I was a toddler and lived in a Victorian mansion. Of course, it was subdivided into student apartments by then, but still... I see homes like this and think how wonderful it would be to li...

Some public restrooms are works of art. And as "art," they can sometimes be hard to identify as restrooms at all! Take a look at ten of the most stunning public facilities in the world, because if you ever go to these pl...

You're looking at the Librería El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a 1920s theater in Argentina that has been converted into the fanciest bookstore in exsistence. The theater boxes now serve as quiet reading rooms, and as o...