FKB Architecture & Design

08/11/2026

Satisfied client

08/09/2026

My obsession with stairs continues… Ascending and descending, vertically moving through space.

08/04/2026

The evolution of marble sculpture — when stone begins to breathe 🏛️✨

From the Early Renaissance to the late nineteenth century, marble sculpture reveals an extraordinary journey of artistic and technical mastery.

Early Renaissance sculptors revived the ideals of classical antiquity, focusing on balanced proportions, anatomical accuracy, and harmonious compositions. Over the centuries, artists continuously pushed the limits of marble, transforming a rigid block of stone into figures that seem to move, breathe, and feel.

With each generation, sculptors refined their ability to capture realistic anatomy, flowing drapery, expressive facial features, and dramatic movement. Delicate details such as soft skin, flowing hair, translucent fabrics, and subtle emotional expressions emerged from one of the hardest natural materials, creating the illusion that marble had become almost weightless.

By the nineteenth century, technical precision had reached remarkable heights. Sculptors achieved astonishing effects of transparency and texture, demonstrating how craftsmanship could overcome the apparent limitations of stone while preserving its timeless beauty.

💬 Which fascinates you most—the incredible technical precision, the realism, or the emotion captured in marble?

08/03/2026

Yes. This bench ~~~

07/27/2026

And my fascination with stairs continues… some are really frightening!

07/27/2026

06/29/2026

Brilliant!

The pool is almost empty.

Leandro Erlich’s Swimming Pool creates the illusion of people standing underwater — but only a thin layer of real water sits above a transparent glass surface.

Below it, visitors walk through a dry chamber, while people above see them as if they are submerged.

The work turns a simple architectural element into a visual trick: surface becomes depth, and the ordinary becomes impossible.

Artwork: Swimming Pool by Leandro Erlich
Credit: leandroerlichofficial

06/27/2026

Need more.

Animal door knockers.

Before anyone enters, the door already says something.

Birds, lizards, dolphins, dragonflies, hares, and mice turn a simple knock into a small piece of sculpture — playful, symbolic, protective, or just beautifully strange.

06/22/2026

The beauty that is not created any longer but always appriciated.

When even a door lock was made to be beautiful.

Early 20th-century hardware often turned everyday objects into small pieces of craftsmanship — brass, pattern, detail, and elegance in something as simple as opening a door.

06/20/2026

Nicely done!

Populus turns the “eyes” of aspen bark into a hotel façade.

Designed by Studio Gang in Denver, the 265-room hotel takes its sculptural windows from the marks left on quaking aspen trees as their lower branches fall away.

Those deep openings are not only decorative: they help shade the rooms, frame views, and give the tower its organic texture.

Opened in 2024, Populus is billed as the first carbon-positive hotel in the U.S. — pairing a nature-inspired façade with an ambitious carbon strategy.