Tucked behind sunlit gardens where Jefferson and Pierce streets meet above Friendly Plaza in Monterey, the historic adobe Casa de la Torre stands as one of the California coastal town’s most cherished ...

The urge for the curve extends to interior design, furniture and restaurants.

Adobe Disneyland: That’s what some locals occasionally have called Santa Fe’s tourism-heavy downtown. Yet unknowing visitors might be forgiven if they think that many of the buildings in our ...

Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation imagined a "vertical neighborhood," a building able to integrate housing, commerce, leisure, and collective spaces within a single structural organism. Around the ...

A San Jose developer is reviving a long-disputed proposal for housing surrounding the site of Santa Rosa’s birthplace after economic upheaval stalled an earlier proposal approved two decades ago.

Dams come in many shapes and sizes, but one design you’ll never find is the short arch dam. This video explains the hidden engineering reasons why these structures don’t exist. Judge Delivers Final ...

In the heart of a Dutch forest, this wooden frame building for the Triodos Bank was designed to be reversible by Rau Architects. Image © Ossip The Row, designed by ...

There’s a new must-visit museum just an hour’s drive away from Manila, and it’s a charming Spanish colonial structure called ...

If you have adobe, you just may need the Adobe Doctor - whether you know it or not. For 15 years, John Schimon, who owns the business, has been helping restore adobe buildings and homes throughout ...

Adobe buildings tell David Yubeta their stories … and he listens. Yubeta is the adobe whisperer (aka historic preservation specialist) at Tumacacori National Historical Park near Tubac. Stabilizing ...

No matter which one you pick, the properties below are all within reasonable distance from the park itself—and its many wonderful activities. Hikers can trek among fragrant coni ...