Other people’s homes: always interesting, aren’t they? Following on from Joss’s post below about a very pink house in New York, here’s a video from style magazine dwell about a very black apartment in the same city.
It’s owned by Cindy Gallop, an international advertising consultant.
Cindy, who has enough shoes to put Imelda Marcos to shame, [...]

I love New York. And I love pink. So how much do I love this NYC townhouse with its fabulously pink bedroom? Very, very much, is the answer.

However, even I’m aware that intensely pink bedrooms with golden angels adorning the walls are likely to be the stuff of nightmares rather than sweet dreams for most people.
But [...]

As shiny homes go, they don’t get much shinier than this.
Looking like another escapee from the set from Blade Runner (cf. The Pyramid House), it is in fact the overall winner of the 2009 Solar Decathlon over in Washington D.C. – a competition which seeks to raise awareness about renewable [...]

Art Deco is quite possibly the architectural equivalent of Marmite, given its tendency to divide people into two distinct camps: lovers or loathers.
I’m on the loving it side, myself, particularly when it comes to properties. I love the blend of gracious curves and crisp lines, the flat roofs, the flurry of windows, and the frequently extravagant designs.
But [...]

An architectural classic this week: the Georgian Townhouse.
Of course, given that there were several King Georges, the Georgian period lasted for well over a hundred years, starting – logically – with George I’s reign, which began in 1714, and ending with the death of George IV in 1830.
Styles of architecture changed during this long period, [...]

Brighton: it’s been practically impossible to miss it in the media this week, what with the political circus that is the Labour party conference rolling into town last Sunday.
And what a telly-genic place it is, too, particularly when the sun is shining, as it’s been doing a lot over the past few days.
Even Gordon Brown [...]

What do you do when your building plot includes an enormous horse chestnut tree that you’re not allowed to cut down?
Grand Designs devotees will remember that architect Peter Romaniuk and his clients David and Anjana Devoy solved this problem by creating a beautiful curved house that traces the perimeter of the site and extends an [...]

Here at Winging It we love a bit of duck-related design, so when we came across Matt Pugh’s sublimely silly Duck Lamp at 100% Design we just knew we had to share it with you.
So here it is … and I think you’ll agree that there are no further words from me that could improve [...]

Well done to New York-based Stephen Holl Architects who recently won an international competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art.
Coincidentally, the Art School’s main building was also the result of an architectural competition back in the 1890s, which was won by a then unknown Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

But my favourite competition construction in Glasgow is [...]

Happy Arthur Day, one and all! If, like I was until a couple of hours ago, you were unaware of such a day, I can tell you that it’s in honour of Arthur Guinness who, 250 years ago today, signed the lease for his legendary brewery in Dublin.

Let me help you with the mental arithmetic here:  [...]