Martha Stewart was smitten when she first heard about Travertine House. The sleek, International Style home once belonged to Gordon Bunshaft, an architect with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Martha bought ... Read More

The Second Empire, or Mansard, style house is the perfect setting for a horror film. It's the haunting hilltop architecture seen in spooky movies such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Learn ... Read More

The United Nations was formally established on October 24, 1945. Exactly four years later, the cornerstone was laid for the UN Headquarters in New York City. Its centerpeice is the ... Read More

I love a good ghost story any time of the year, but Halloween is an especially good time to curl up with a spooky tale about haunted houses, haunted inns, ... Read More

Built in 1929, this sprawling home originally had a stucco façade. Today, it sports cedar shingles. Here's a photo of how the house looks today... click on the photo to ... Read More

A member of our Discussion Forum writes, "I live in Lexington, KY and my house and many in the area have two front doors. They are not the Shaker ... Read More

On October 13, 1792, the cornerstone was laid for a presidential home in America's newly designated capital, Washington D.C. The building we see now looked very different from the one ... Read More

Born in Argentina on October 12, 1926, Cesar Pelli is perhaps most famous for his Petronas Towers. Although skyscraper statistics are often disputed, the two Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, ... Read More

In a recent NPR program, architect Richard Meier admitted that his mission to design a museum for the ancient Roman Ara Pacis (Alter of Peace) was "intimidating." The glass and ... Read More

Last week I went on a house tour that included the home shown here. Weighing in at more than 8,000 square feet, the place is a classic example of a ... Read More

"A retail chain wants to build a store next to my house and in an area with other older historic buildings," a reader reports. "In a recent meeting an architect ... Read More

A member of our Discussion Forum has posted a photo of this cozy home. "Best we can guess is that it's somewhere between a Foursquare and a Bungalow," she writes. Built ... Read More

This weekend, October 7 through 10, the American Society of Landscape Architects is holding their annual convention and EXPO in the "Venice of America" -- Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ... Read More

No one asks the displaced people on America's Gulf Coast who should build their cities and homes. However, many famous architects are stepping forward with reconstruction ideas. Some are offering ... Read More

A six-day architecture extravaganza in New York City begins October 6 with a stellar line-up that will include exhibitions, parties, films, games, and tours of buildings usually closed to the ... Read More