Latvia-based firm Rolands Landsbergs is trying to maximize space with a minimalist design. Their Boxetti Collection is comprised of five wooden housing modules that condense entire rooms into one, compact box—including sound systems, bedrooms, and kitchens.

The staging at the Republican National Convention takes its cues from Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential designs, but given the architect’s link to Ayn Rand, Christopher Hawthorne wonders if that’s a risky choice.

Developers in Phoenix, Arizona are hoping to demolition a Frank Lloyd Wright House and build two luxury mansions in its place. Conservationists are circulating a petition in hopes of stopping construction and getting the building named a historic landmark.

Frank Gehry has been tapped to create Facebook West in San Francisco. The large, collaborative space will have 26-ft. ceilings and skylights to achieve Gehry’s goal of “ephemeral connectivity” and satisfy Zuckerberg’s desire to share space with his engineers.

RISD student Erica Sellers has made a set of “sound furniture” by transforming digital readings of soundwaves into a table and chair. To do so, Sellers made a 2D image of Grimes’ “Symphonia IX,” made it 3D, and then processed the furniture with a CNC machine.

Design director Emmet Byrne provides the newest playlist for Studio Music, with picks ranging from the “greatest cheating song ever written” to a Black Dice brain-tickler to Os Mutantes’ “Bat Macumba” (its lyrics “look like bat wings when they’re left justified”).

With the late 2012 opening of the Gehry–designed Biomuseo, officials are hoping the “Bilbao effect” will make it “a new icon for Panama.” But while iconic, the design says little about the museum’s green mission, writes Kelly Chan.

Balthazar Korab calls himself as “an architect who makes pictures rather than a photographer who is knowledgeable about architecture.” Imagery by Eero Saarinen’s in-house photographer are collected in a new book.