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Over the weekend, the Swiss arhictect Peter Zumthor (whose most recently completed building, the Bruder Klaus Chapel in the South of Germany, appears at right) was awarded the Pritzker Prize (the Heisman of architecture awards), breaking the streak of especially spectacular architects who’d won the prize recently. With his decidedly Modernist forms, penchant for minimalism [...]

We recently calculated that our chances of ever living in a home or apartment with more than one floor were pretty much non-existent, and ever since we’ve been wallowing in staircase withdrawal.
Helping us along through these dark times, the blog stair porn features some satisfyingly cathartic staircase designs, several of which are included in Fresh [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]