"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you've ever driven around town admiring all the different home exteriors in your neighborhood, you may ...

According to leading interior designers, this seemingly trendy architectural feature will be seen as overdone, cliched, and ...

Popular home designs may come and go, but if we’ve learned anything about trends, it's that what's old becomes new again. Don’t believe us? Architectural designs with blueprints that go as far back as ...

Left: Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide, by Margaret Fletcher and Robbie Polley. Princeton University Press, 288 pages, $29.95. Right: The Elements of Modern Architecture: Understanding ...

For decades, Santa Barbara’s notoriously nitpicky review boards have made navigating the city’s design approval process a gauntlet for potential developers. The subjective “discretionary review” — ...

Undeniably, art deco is the typical design style that comes to mind when people discuss Miami’s architecture. In fact, Miami Beach deco has its own subcategory of the Roaring Twenties style, made ...

Whether in fashion, art, or design, trends, by definition, come and go. Though sometimes received with a bad connotation, there is both a genuine beauty and an innate necessity in the phenomenon that ...

Contemporary homes (see top) will have lots of natural light, high ceilings, and open floor plans. Many homes will have large floor-to-ceiling windows to show off spectacular views. Combining ...

Depending on where you live in Australia, your street may be lined with Victorian terraces featuring ornate facades and flourishes of fretwork, California bungalows – a style of architecture we ...

World Architecture Day is celebrated on the first Monday of October, a tradition that started in 1985 to encourage people “to reflect on the state of our towns and cities and the basic right of all to ...