My Gingerbread Museum As Art

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Frank Lloyd Wright. Icing, gingerbread, cotton candy, candy wrappers, licorice, sugar.

In honor of the season, we take a look at this impressive collaboration between photographer Henry Hargreaves and food stylist Caitlin Levin as they bring the interpretive art gingerbread construction to bear on famous architectural museums from around the world.

Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp, Neutelings Riedijk Architects. Gingerbread, lego candy, hard candy, sesame candy, chocolate, bubble gum, sour rolls.

Maxxi – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, Zaha Hadid. Gingerbread, hard candy, lollipop sticks.

My Cabin as Art

With winter fast approaching, we take a look at some architectural turns on the classic winter cabin.

Feral House :: Matali Crasset, Designer

Hardanger Summer Retreat :: Saunders Architecture

My Bed As Art

In honor of a hard-earned Labor Day weekend, we're taking a look at the most restful part of the home - the bed.

My Outdoor Kitchen As Art

As the dog days of summer drag on, and the pull of the outdoors shows no sign of relenting, we take a look at some enticing outdoor kitchens.

My Nest As Art

With examples of his work strewn throughout the Big Sur area, Artist/Musician/Community Educator/Nest Maker Jayson Fann shows us that nests aren't just for the birds.

My Tent As Art

Archinoma

With camping season officially upon us, we take a look at some examples that prove communion with the great outdoors need not preclude great architecture.

The Biomimetic Tent by Ondrej Vaclavik

The Orange Solar Tent

Tentsile

My (Outdoor) Home As Art

Arterra Landscape Architects

With the days stretching longer and the air growing warmer, it's an ideal time to enhance our outside "homes". Here's a look at the work of some prominent landscape architects to inspire us. 

Kris E. Kimpel Landscape

Fernando Caruncho

My Staircase As Art

Panorama House, Ochang-eup, South Korea :: Moon Hoon Architects

Unassuming and utilitarian, the staircase is often a structural element taken for granted. But with a bit of imagination and innovation, these designers and architects have taken steps, risers, banisters and flights to compose stairways that are impossible to ignore.

TRE-140 - Historic Center Overijssel, Zwolle, The Netherlands  :: EeStairs

Ribbon Stair, Liben, Prague :: HSH Architects