The most fitting symbols are often accidents. When flames engulfed the Mandarin Oriental Hotel inside the titanium CCTV tower design by Rem Koolhaas in Beijing last February, it felt like a ...

The image of suburban luxury is getting a major remodel. Forget the cul-de-sac McMansion and white picket fence — for a growing number of Chicagoland residents, upscale living now means a ...

For many Americans, perhaps nothing better symbolizes pre-recession excess than the McMansion. If you live in a suburb of one of America's major cities, you're likely familiar with the idea of a ...

Heather Alarab, a junior at the University of California, Merced, and Jill Foster, a freshman, know that their sudden popularity has little to do with their sparkling personalities, intelligence or ...

Earlier this week, the real estate site Zillow sent a cease-and-desist letter to the writer behind McMansion Hell, a blog that makes fun of ugly suburban houses. McMansion Hell’s creator, Kate Wagner, ...

In the late 1990s to mid-2000s, there was perhaps no better indicator of affluence than the McMansion, a cookie-cutter suburban home that typically measures between 3,000 and 5,000 square feet. In ...

Reader, I solemnly regret to inform you that America is indeed back on that bullshit. The McMansion is back. Swanson provides key insights into this resurgence: adjusted for inflation, oil prices are ...

Weapons is not a very scary horror film. It is, however, a fascinating movie about the suburbs and the way the architecture of family life supports silence and complicity. Horror movies often use the ...