Stairways are central to access and mobility within a space, and yet, they often take a backseat to other elements of design within a work of architecture. However, Mexican firm PRODUCTORA has put ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. As we move through our cities each day, we make dozens of small ...

In the quest to address the ever-pressing urban housing crisis, cities across Canada, particularly Metro Vancouver, face a multitude of challenges. Key among these is the “missing middle,” a term ...

Just off The High Line on West 24th Street, Metro Pictures has been given new life courtesy of New York firm, 1100 Architect. Inside the Chelsea gallery, a (somehow) forgotten skylight has been reborn ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Alternating tread stairs are terrific for saving space; you only put one foot on a tread at ...

“Uninspired” was one of the kinder things that could be said of this 1,250-square-foot duplex when Gowanus-based architect Lynn Gaffney and her clients first laid eyes on it (for proof, see the ...

The starting point: a three-story row house with a dreary, dated interior, but lots of potential — exactly what Bernheimer Architecture’s clients had been looking for. “They wanted a townhouse in poor ...

A Japanese-style reading nook and a sculptural wooden staircase feature in this 1970s Los Angeles house, which has been overhauled by local studio Dan Brunn Architecture to "pay homage" to its ...

Finally on the programme today, we explore the 'servant problem', from the perspective of architecture. We take the 'domestic' of 'domestic architecture', and reveal it not as something cosy or ...

Prêt à porter-ing a staircase collar (pictured) outside the house is certainly one way to make a statement, but then again, so is breaking your neck wearing the thing. Still, Astragal loves a bit of ...