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Rice House: Not for the Faint-Hearted

Rice House: Not for the Faint-Hearted

"They were small homes, small cheap houses for people - returned soldiers and their families or whoever that were looking for something perhaps a little more creative." - Doug Evans Rice House is a unique mid-century home designed by Australian architect Kevin Borland that might just take your

A Neglected Chapter: Mies in Krefeld

Mies van der Rohe

A Neglected Chapter: Mies in Krefeld

"How could this happen? Even then, Krefeld was provincial. How did this collaboration happen here with an architect of this calibre?" CHRISTIANE LANGE, ART HISTORIAN Imagine your neighbours laughing with pity because you had the poor taste to be living in a house designed by Mies van der

The Mysterious La Cupola

The Mysterious La Cupola

An eerie sense of both the past and the future resides at 𝐋𝐚 𝐂𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐚. Designed by architect 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐧𝐢 for a famous director and his actress lover in the late 1960s, this architectural wonder was never lived in as intended - with the inhabitants going their separate ways. Unfulfilled dreams fuel the charged atmosphere