Britain has its share of "follies," or architectural structures that were built for vanity, a lark, or to show off one's wealth. As properties changed hands, they fell into disuse because they weren't suited for any prac...

You can credit McMansion Hell for making us more a...  ...it McMansion Hell for making us more aware of the architecture around us. The website caused Grant Snider to rec...

(Image credit: Flickr user Phillip)They were once...  ...d halls of a secret society, many with an opulent architecture that befitted a club descended from a stonemason'...

Images: BoysPlayNice/H3T - via Apartm...  ...rror lovers) can join in on the fun! Czech architecture firm H3T Architeckti's "Black Flying House&q...

This imposing ultramodern design does resemble the headquarters of an evil empire, but it's a fire station in Italy. Where I live, building anything against a rock face is just asking to be crushed by falling rock, and a...

In the early 1980s, a piece of land in downtown Osaka, Japan, was due for an upgrade. The landowners wanted a big new building on the valuable real estate. The highway department planned an expressway through the neighbo...

The São Paulo Museum of Art, architect: Lin...  ...not mean much to those of us who haven't studied architecture , but take one look at their picks and you won't n...  ...rding to Tara Imani, "gave us our initial ABCs of architecture ", buildings that make it on an architect's top te...

Sweden is a lovely country. They’ve also giv...  ...ountry, although some of it stays in Sweden, like architecture , so you might not be familiar with some of the mo...

China has some amazing new buildings that are mean...  ...young Padawan. See more images of recent Chinese architecture

A couple of months ago, we introduced you to the blog McMansion Hell, which now goes by the name Worst of McMansions. The blogger is an architect who explains the various sins of McMansion design and how they offend our...