Window design architecture

When building or remodeling, the selection of window types enables you to customize your choice based on lighting needs and personal style.

Image 20 of 31 from gallery of See Through House / Wallflower Architecture + Design. Photograph by Albert Lim KS

The type of window contributes to the overall style of a home, and the quality of a window contributes to its longevity. Consider window type, frame material, glazing, and method of installation when choosing new windows for the home.

When you realize how many different types of window designs exist, why they exist, what their applications are and how each type of window is used, you may find them more fascinating than you realized!

For Tamara and Erik Nelson, the property they had owned for years in Edmonds, Washington, offered picture-postcard views of the Puget Sound, not to

Faceted window frames project from the slatted timber and stained-glass facade of this apartment block in Tehran designed by Keivani Architects

Modern Bay Window? Bay Windows have such a historical significance in architecture that it may seem odd to call the windows in the following images modern

extruded box windows:

dividing the 'black & white twins' apartment blocks, rotterdam-based studio casanova hernandez architects, has experimented with their integration into the urban context.