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.
Tiny houses are growing in popularity because of increasing environmental consciousness and a desire to reject unnecessary material goods.
The D*Haus is a residential architecture concept based on a mathematical formula that morphs and rotates according to the time of day and the season.
The world's smallest house is a four-foot-wide guest residence for artists, crammed between two more conventional buildings in Warsaw, Poland.
Spanish architecture firm A-cero designs dazzling modernist residences in dramatic shapes and high-contrast colors.
A warehouse space in a historic Neo-Gothic building in Melbourne is transformed into a beautiful modern apartment with brick walls, archways and high ceilings.
These two houses are a skateboarder's dream, one built in a loop for continuous skating and the other modified to include ramps and curves.
It truly is a hulk of a thing to make into a live/work space, but there is an industrial loft-like quality that renders this conversion wonderful.
An abandoned viaduct in southern Italy with stunning vistas of the mountains and sea will become a vertical village of stacked, cantilevered vacation homes.
The six winners of the AIA Small Projects Awards, including tea houses and pavilions, are great examples of well-designed architecture on a small scale.
Once a Laotian refugee and, now, a German architect, Van Bo Le-Mentzel understands firsthand what it means to be homeless and displaced.
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