New legislation is making it easier to get a mortgage for manufactured, "factory-built" homes reports Newsday.com. What is a manufactured home? Well, it's not exactly the same as a modular ... Read More

Saddam Hussein's team of 45 architects and 700 engineers designed grandiose projects for the ousted Iraqi president. Now the ostentatious palaces and mosques stand unfinished, according to Zawya.com.For more about ... Read More

If you're a regular here, you may be familiar with our Mystery House series. Readers with questions about their homes share photos and get feedback in our discussion forum. ... Read More

Rising from emerald fields in Ireland, Adare Manor was commissioned by Lady Caroline Wyndham to give her gout-stricken husband something to do. The Earl's diversion lead to an elaborate gothic-revival ... Read More

Medieval traditions mingled with modern methods to create the whimsical Victorian style known as Gothic Revival. Full story...

Poundbury, a model English village created by the Prince of Wales, is nearly ten years old, and critics are calling the community an anti-modern "cultural cul-de-sac"... Leon Krier, the architect ... Read More

Today's log cabins are often spacious and elegant, but in the 1800s they reflected the hardships of life on the North American frontier.

This isn't the stuff of The Jetsons. An Internet-driven technological wave is rippling through houses in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, according to a new report in Business Week. Today's digital ... Read More

"Chicago's neighborhoods are filled with bungalows. Now they're getting their due," Andrew Buchanan reports in the Christian Science Monitor. For a look at Chicago's distinctive bungalow style, see Buchanan's ... Read More

A reader in our discussion forum writes, "Around a millennium ago, in the late 1930's, I was born in this old farm home in North Louisiana. Back then, it ... Read More

News media is buzzing with reports of the struggles to build a new World Trade Center complex on Ground Zero in New York City. Both the New York Post ... Read More

This page is a Web log (or, "blog") containing news, commentary, information, and photos related to architecture and home design. While I'm partial to our own blog, I do have ... Read More

Earlier this year, Donald and Lashonda Williams posted this message in our discussion forum: "We need curb appeal!" Their questions and photos started a lively and helpful discussion, and this ... Read More

"I would like to know your views regarding the creation of spaces for blind people," a reader from India writes. "Of course there should be the provision for barrier-free and ... Read More

In an effort to quiet critics, Wal-Mart Canada Corp. has hired a leading "green" architecture firm to design an eco-friendly store in Vancouver. The new Wal-Mart may even have a ... Read More

"A century's worth of technology, legislation, and plain old capitalism made our homes what they are today," Dan Cray writes in This Old House magazine. According to Cray, the 15 ... Read More