Unlike exterior columns, interior columns can stick out like sore thumbs. Acting like visual barriers, they block clear lines of sight across a room or simply take up space. But if they are structural ...

Architect Ismail Rayek discusses columns' dual structural and aesthetic role, offering innovative solutions to mitigate their intrusive presence and turn them into a design focal point. Columns serve ...

Pillars of the architectural community for thousands of years, columns still play vitally important supporting roles in home design. Whether load-bearing and structural or merely decorative, columns ...

As an interior designer, I see lots of trends come and go. This season, color drenching is popular, but all-beige interiors are on their way out. Zillow analyzed millions of listings to forecast home ...

If you don't like a specific musical style, the theater bores you, or you're not attracted to works of art, you can almost always avoid them. Architecture, however, is different. A poorly thought-out ...

Columns serve two main purposes. Structurally, they bear the load of upper floors or roofs where walls alone cannot support the building. Aesthetically, they can become a central design element when ...