Apartment envy is not unique to New York City, but it is certainly one of the closest watched real estate markets in the world. As the twentieth century began, savvy real estate developers worked to create ever-grander buildings around Central Park and other prominent locations around the city. This digital collection from the New York Public Library brings together 1300 images that depict...

From the College of Charleston's Special Collections Department comes "New Gardens Are Ever Appearing," a digital exhibit focused on the work of Loutrel Winslow Briggs (1893-1977), a landscape architect who spent four influential decades of his career in the city of Charleston. In its introduction, the exhibit notes that Briggs is best known for "his contributions to the design of Charleston's...

Coming in at just under 6,000 items, the materials in this online exhibition put together by the Stanford University Archives exemplify its long title. Selecting Browse quickly makes apparent how the exhibition materials are categorized; that is, there are 220 architectural drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna House while there are 3,201 drawings by Birge M. Clark, a Palo Alto architect who...

The Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) is the nonprofit historic preservation organization for New York State's Adirondack Park. Created in 1990, the organization protects a range of rustic buildings, along with a range of other places, including railroad buildings, quarries, and lighthouses. The 428 photos here are derived from an extensive slide collection which was digitized as part of...

Readers interested in traditional African cultures may enjoy the African Vernacular Architecture Database. This database was started in 2014 by Jon Twingi Sojkowski, an architect based in South Carolina whose passion for traditional African architecture began when he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia. Visitors to this resource will find a diverse collection of crowdsourced photographs showing...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Chicago is the largest chapter of licensed architects, architectural interns, and allied professionals within AIA Illinois. When one thinks of the tremendously talented individuals who have left their mark on the city of Chicago, this fact is not so surprising. On AIA Chicago's website, visitors will find access to information about membership, chapter...

In the 1990s, environmental artist Alice Weston photographed dozens of grand old homes in Cincinnati for the book "Great Houses of the Queen City: Two Hundred Years of Historic and Contemporary Architecture and Interiors in Cincinnati." This digital collection, presented by the University of Cincinnati, brings together 1,400 images taken by Weston, including hundreds of images not included in the...

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Alvin Lustig's designs for office and domestic interiors, furniture, books, magazines, and textiles have a look - George Jetson's living room - that anyone who grew up in the US in the 1950s and 60s will instantly recognize as modern. The Kind Company created this site, a Brooklyn based graphic design firm, out of their sheer admiration for Lustig's designs. The web site currently features more...

The American Institute of Architects has thrown down a gauntlet of sorts by offering up this list of the top 150 architecture projects as selected by the American public. Through a partnership with Google Earth, visitors can locate each building on an interactive map, but they might want to start by browsing through the list first. Each building profile includes a photograph, a brief overview of...