Architecture, connected

Find your way into architecture.

Start with what catches your eye. Explore a courtyard, a material, a setting or a way of living.

Each collection begins with an edited selection and a few useful questions. Follow a design to its photographs, research notes and original project sources.

Grey-walled hall opening toward a leafy courtyard through full-height glazing beside an open stair.

Courtyard houses

Discover homes organized around courtyards, from sheltered garden rooms to openings that bring daylight into a compact plan.

374 designs
Grey-walled hall opening toward a leafy courtyard through full-height glazing beside an open stair.

Japanese houses

Explore houses in Japan through their plans, screened edges, gardens and carefully framed views.

41 designs
Tiled room with a long low bench against a grey wall, full-height garden glazing and strong patches of sunlight.

Concrete houses

Explore concrete homes through their spatial choices, from private courtyards to rooms embedded in a wooded slope.

490 designs
Cornwall Gardens House

Tropical houses

Browse houses in tropical settings, with an edited look at sheltered terraces, planted edges and the transition between indoors and outdoors.

468 designs
Aerial view of a house roof and terraces surrounded by dense woodland.

Architecture & nature

Discover houses and public buildings that work with gardens, coastlines and changing ground levels.

1201 designs
Plain grey volumes with narrow rectangular windows rise behind a low boundary wall and a grassy foreground.

Minimalist houses

Explore homes where clear plans, controlled views and a restrained architectural language make space for everyday life.

248 designs
A 1960’s Warehouse Becomes a Family Home in Melbourne

Industrial conversions

Discover warehouse conversions and reused industrial spaces, with attention to the relationship between an existing structure and its new use.

26 designs
Broad silver roof spreading above a low museum and reflected in still water.

Futuristic architecture

Discover architecture with sculptural roofs, unusual structural ideas and spaces that invite comparisons with imagined futures.

22 designs

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