The history of Bukhara stretches back millennia. It is now the capital of Bukhara Region (viloyat) of Uzbekistan. Located on the Silk Road, the city has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture, and religion. During the golden age of the Samanids, Bukhara became a major intellectual center of the Islamic world, second only to Baghdad.

Preservationists at the enigmatic mansion have located a boarded-up room in the attic

The world’s first rotating skyscraper is set to be built in Dubai by 2020. The Dynamic Tower Hotel has been planned since 2008, having been proposed by Israeli-Italian architect David Fisher. It will stand at 1,375 feet tall, with each of its 80 storeys capable of rotating individually around a concrete core, offering 360-degree views of Dubai.  Residents will be able to control rotation speeds and stop their apartment from spinning with voice commands.

Beneath the streets of Beijing, people live in an underground universe constructed during the Cold War era.

Mazes are in vogue at the moment, from NBO's Westworld, to the return of the British cult TV series, The Crystal Maze. But mazes have been around for millennia and one of the most famous mazes, the Labyrinth home of the Minotaur, plays a starring role in Greek mythology.

The designer of a new landmark building is suing over copyright infringement, describing an entrenched system where power can trump sanctity of law.

The grim prefab Khrushchyovkas helped solve the USSR’s housing crisis after World War II. Now, Moscow plans to demolish 8,000 of them, displacing more than 1.5 million people. Should any be preserved for posterity? By Mark Byrnes.

There’s lots of competition for the title of world’s tallest skyscraper, but does anyone care about the world’s longest – even when it extends vertically into an upside-down U shape? If you w…

The Department of Homeland Security's call for proposals for a wall to be built along the Mexico–US border elicited hundreds of designs. Here are six of them.

The long and varied history of life along Hadrian’s Wall

The home of past-century wonders like the Brooklyn Bridge returns to building cable-stayed bridges, which are designed to “stand the test of time.”

Created in 2006 by multidisciplinary artist Kimsooja, he transformed the Palacio de Cristal into a multisensory sound and light experience. Outside light filters through the glass of the pavilion and reflects off the diffraction film. It diffuses into rainbow spectrums, transforming the external panorama seen from within the palace. The resulting effect is that the entire structure as well as the rays of colour reflecting off the mirrored floor.

The emotive faces from our keyboards are now literally plastered across a building in the city of Amersfoort in central Netherlands. The 22 circles relay 22 different expressions, from a smiling face to a grimacing face to a cool face with sunglasses.

The Shaolin Flying Monks Theater has a massive wind tunnel running through that allows for the mystifying spectacle in China.

Graduate architect students at the University of Calgary designed habitats for Mars explorers in a Mars Studio course.

Architects from around the world show what they can create using bamboo construction in the first International Bamboo Architecture Biennale in China.

Former monk Justo Gallego Martinez has been constructing his own cathedral in Mejorada del Campo, Spain, since 1961. He had no prior knowledge of architecture and hadn't laid a brick in his life, yet his project currently stands 131ft tall, and acts as a wonderful reminder that faith overcomes everything.

Colin's Barn looks like a castle built by a hobbit, but really it was built by a shepherd to take care of his flock.

Few cities represent the remarkable 20th century trend of skyscraper-filled, obscenely dense cities better than Hong Kong. At its height, The Kowloon Walled City, which was demolished in 1993, was perhaps the most dystopian portrait of urban living.

Frank Lloyd Wright once boasted that he didn’t design his buildings to last for more than a century. It’s not something you hear from many architects. Then again it was true. By Jeffrey St. Clair.

From early works in Oak Park to iconic houses (read: Fallingwater) and geometric masterpieces like the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, here’s the ultimate cheat sheet of Frank Lloyd Wright designs.

Set among trees, rocks and a waterfall, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater was a masterpiece beset with problems. Jonathan Glancey tells its story.

H.P. Lovecraft and J.G. Ballard both put architecture at the heart of their fiction, and both made the humble corner into a place of nightmares. By Will Wiles.

In the world of intelligent spaces, engaging experiences enable employees to maximize effectiveness, seamlessly and securely anywhere, anytime. Here's what you need to build that world.

Forget bricks, concrete and mortar — repurposed water towers actually make pretty good houses, and definitely unusual ones!

The New Zealand pub, inspired by the beloved Lord of the Rings and Hobbit series, offers fans "a place to drink, a place to meet, a place to rest your hairy feet."

The past year and a half has seen an impressive new crop of high-design restaurants that demonstrate as much innovation and flair in their architecture and decor as they do in their cuisine.

You can do in very simple way very nice bookshelves and use for that only bricks and wood :D Very simple and very decor.

If you want to have very original and eccentric furnitures You don't have to spend a lot of money! Just look aroud you and use your mind! And You'll find many ideas how to make your life easier and more interesting!

A house in the middle of the Drina River near the town of Bajina Basta, Serbia

If you want to renovate your wood floor this is one of ideas. Black floor with white wlls looks fantastic! and every kind of furnitures will looks good with it (all colours).

Between the years 1100 and 1300s, there were about 1000 stave churches built along the old trade routes in Norway. The Borgund Stavkirke is the best preserved of any today and is a truly unique temple to visit.

On the 57th storey of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore resides the world’s largest cantilevered platform. Known as the SkyPark, it stretches longer than the Eiffer tower laid down, with an impressive 12,400 square meters (133,477 sq ft) of space.

This is house in the black forest in Germany.