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Waking, sleeping, recreating, loving and living, we spend so much time at home it seems a shame not to make your place of residence both functional and radical - the dwelling designs featured here will shock, amaze, intrigue and inspire you to rethink your housing situation and improve the spaces you inhabit.
Modern Design Meets Tradition in 12 Japanese Homes
These twelve homes balance Japanese traditions like recessed lower levels, adaptable interior rooms and transitional garden spaces with modern sensibilities.
Expand on Demand: Secret Deck Spaces for Small Dwellings
What if you could push a balcony outward on demand, rather than adding an entire deck or patio? Here are three designs to expand outdoor space in creative ways.
Nest-Like 3D Printed House Will be Assembled in a Day
Another contender for the first 3D printed house, 'ProtoHouse 2.0' looks like a spider's nest and can be assembled without screws or welding in a single day.
Möbius Strip: Plans to Build World's First 3D-Printed House
An unusual collaboration between an architect, an inventor and a mathematician-plus-artist is producing the world's first 3D-printed home in real life.
Church Bells To Doorbells: 8 Churches Turned Into Homes
When churches grow old, they can be purchased, and renovated into amazing houses that uniquely introduce religious elements into a pedestrian environment.
4-Foot-Wide Home in Poland is Now Thinnest in the World
Nestled between two existing structures sits an improbable structure, an artist-in-residence live/work dwelling of incredible audacity and engineered ingenuity.
Branch Out: 20 Organic Tree Houses Are Naturally Amazing
Woven huts made of living saplings, artistic hotel rooms resembling bird nests are among these stunning organic structures built from, in, and onto entire trees.
Ultimate Wooden House Made of Jenga-Like Stacked Beams
Massive rectilinear wooden beams were stacked in random configurations to create a Jenga-like structure full of jutting platforms and hidden nooks.
Only in Japan : 13 Odd Houses by Suppose Design Office
Suppose Design Office specializes in bright, spacious-feeling interiors that incorporate courtyards, indoor gardens and huge windows, even on very small lots.
Bunyan's Pride: 19 Log Cabins That Stack Above The Rest
The typical rectangular cabin plopped in the middle of the woods is no longer the standard. Homeowners are becoming increasingly creative with rustic design.
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