It is simple, clear, and straighforward. No silly bells and whistles.

I like helmutlang.com for the same reasons.

Sam Sung - it is certainly free of silly bells and whistles, as well as any content...

I like J.Mayer H, and Archea,

sam, was your link intended? i think just a place holder...

base, great ones. I really like the rectanglular structure of archea. any others to consider?

- stylish navigation, details in dwg express - kool

- stylish navigation, details in dwg express - kool

for general information, have you found any architecture websites out there better than archinect.com?? what others do you visit daily for news, links, discussion, etc?

jsut a few from my bookmarks...good work...good web design:

http://www.barkowleibinger.com/

http://www.pugh-scarpa.com/indexmain.html

http://www.alliedworks.com/
although i'm not sure it has project photos...

http://www.seangodsell.com/

http://www.shoparc.com/main.html

Thanks for the suggestions! Some really good one there.

That SHoP page is really nice.

The Brooklyn Foundry make pages for lots of firms and do consistently good work.

I also like this.

Alphanumerica,

Amongst other things, I collect architects websites, particularly Australiasian ones. Most of my favourites are on my laptop at my other office, but here are a few more:

Dale Jones Evans
Six Degrees
John Wardle Architects
John Pawson
Stephane Beel
Architectus

I wonder who was first?

VetterDenk

[url.http://http://www.re4a.com/]re4a[/url]

oops,

or,

RE4A

Aren't you all getting a little flashed out and the little loading icon. Flash was in when everyone had the Matrix 1 screensaver on their computers.


I like http://www.yehjerrard.com/

It's direct and playful at the same time.

zoltron - that website IS flash. really shitty flash.

craker you're a cracker!

a few years ago macromedia loader popup made such a pest of itself, i put macromedia into my hosts file. so swf sites are useless scumware to me.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22flush+flash%22+macromedia&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg

Some of the same individuals that did Allied Works website also did ours. Very good person to work with. www.langohansen.com

gritty but very NY:

www.kushnerstudios.com/

http://www.leong-leong.com/

http://www.bouroullec.com/

Not architects, but the site couldn't be simpler to use. Totally straightforward and relies on quality of the work, not the web  site

cant believe no one has mentioned http://www.big.dk/

probably my personal favorite

oh... my actual favorite is this one... whoever built this one should be very proud

http://www.murphyjahn.com

Aren't most of these websites designed for other architects to gawk at?  As an architecture student who is always on the lookout for intriguing ideas I despise swimming  through websites similar to BIG, DSR, and especially Nouvel.

These are my main compaints...

• Intro Pages
• Slow Flash animations
• Pages opening in new windows
• Navigation that goes too deep

Don't get me wrong, some of these sites are definitely cool, but I can't stand to visit them more than once.  Does anyone else feel the same way?

Umm... not a single one of these websites that have been listed, whether its posts from 2004 to the recent ones, are good. They are all absolutely horrible except maybe leong leong's site, which is nice graphically, but even so can be confusing with its total lack of hierarchy. 

And BIG's pop up windows? What is this? Are we still in 1995? No one likes pop up windows.

And to all the rest, please stop making your entire website in flash. We know people hate it. We now have HTML5, SVG, CSS and Javascript. Make use of it. It is hard to think of many uses of Flash for an architecture website. 

I wonder if these architects hire graphic designers to do their webpages or try to do it themselves. Either the problem is they always hire bad graphic / web designers or they wrongly believe that they themselves are graphic / web designers. 

my guess is its the later beefeater, as i am one of those few