27 stories tagged architecture, newest first.
166 points by sohkamyung | 162 comments
Practical Engineering article and video transcript on the history of exterior fire escapes in US cities and why building codes replaced them with enclosed stairways.
45 points by hoffmannesque | 4 comments
Engelsberg Ideas essay on James Wall Finn, a little-known decorative painter whose murals adorn Gilded Age Manhattan interiors like the NYPL Rose Main Reading Room.
18 points by prismatic | 27 comments
A Baffler essay by Kate Wagner on the decline and scarcity of public toilets and the problems this creates.
12 points by surprisetalk | 13 comments
A Common Edge essay asking what role physical college campuses and their architecture play now that information is freely available.
64 points by josephcsible | 24 comments
GadgetReview opinion article criticizing Apple for hiding fire extinguishers in its offices or stores in the name of clean, minimalist design.
104 points by abetusk | 27 comments
Itch.io store page for Tiny Brutalism, a $5 downloadable architecture sandbox game for Windows, macOS, and Linux by Placeholders.
392 points by colinprince | 344 comments
A McMansion Hell blog post examining and critiquing the strange state of contemporary commercial ceiling fan design.
52 points by ArisC | 29 comments
An interactive bracket tournament where users vote head-to-head among 64 iconic British designs across transport, graphics, objects, and buildings to pick a winner.
61 points by Geekette | 34 comments
Guardian article about Roland Garros airport on Réunion island, whose terminal ceiling design channels tropical breezes to cool it without air conditioning.
34 points by bryanrasmussen | 16 comments
Newsletter essay from The Birth of a Capital about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the City Beautiful movement, and its legacy in civic architecture.
332 points by alihm | 285 comments
A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.
323 points by rustywasm | 171 comments
Parcelscope interactive visualization showing every building in Los Angeles colored by decade built, animating the city's growth from 1880 to today.
379 points by 1659447091 | 64 comments
Smithsonian article about a truck driver who spent 20 years building a 1,350-square-foot scale model of every building in New York City, now on museum display.
1780 points by iambateman | 424 comments
AntiRender is a web tool that takes an architectural render and generates a realistic, gloomy version showing how the building might look on an ordinary overcast day.
441 points by vednig | 240 comments
Unkey blog post about moving away from serverless, which improved performance and simplified their architecture; the capture shows only a Vercel browser check.
349 points by pseudolus | 185 comments
A New Yorker magazine article on the Sagrada Família nearing completion and whether Gaudí's basilica is a masterpiece or kitsch.
664 points by farslan | 241 comments
A personal blog photography post by Fatih Arslan featuring photos of the Barbican Estate in London.
379 points by surprisetalk | 235 comments
Design Milk article about Portland International Airport's terminal expansion featuring a large mass timber roof canopy.
346 points by samclemens | 297 comments
A Craftsman Blog post by Scott Sidler discussing why awnings fell out of use on houses and their historical benefits.
328 points by thecodemonkey | 111 comments
Wafris blog post explaining why its open-source Rails web application firewall client moved from a Redis datastore to SQLite, with benchmark charts.
342 points by bpierre | 110 comments
The Art Newspaper news article about contractors renovating the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing finding a 1990 letter from a donor anticipating demolition of false columns.
440 points by mooreds | 294 comments
CNN Travel article reporting that Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica is set to be completed in 2026.
458 points by jlevers | 191 comments
Homepage of WikiHouse, an open-source building system for simple, zero-carbon timber houses that anyone can design and build.
347 points by sebg | 121 comments
BLDGBLOG essay by Geoff Manaugh examining how Die Hard's Nakatomi Plaza is navigated through walls, vents, and ducts, as a lens on architecture and space.
396 points by tsingy | 196 comments
An Ask HN discussion thread asking where to find a database of open-source house plans for building a home.
583 points by caiobegotti | 247 comments
TwistedSifter article explaining how wavy crinkle-crankle walls, popular in England, use fewer bricks than straight walls while remaining stable.
325 points by thunderbong | 132 comments
SFGATE Obscure SF article about a historic mansion, the Nimitz house, located directly beneath the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge on Yerba Buena Island.