Surreal Estate: 7 Real Life Horror Movie Houses
The casting call is coming from inside the house, and these real-life horror movie houses achieved infamy as on-location sets for some memorable film shoots. Amityville Horror House The ...
Category: Houses & Residential
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.
Limassol: Swimming Pools Sprout from an Apartment Tower Like Mushrooms
Envisioned for the coastal town of Limassol in Cyprus, a wild apartment tower concept has round swimming pools sprouting almost organically from the facade on all sides. Developed by the French ...
Skyscape House: Modern Rooftop Retreat Looks Out Over Bangkok
From luxury penthouses to sky-high secret slums, urban rooftop architecture is like a hidden world of its own, often invisible from street level. Most of us go about our daily lives in the city ...
Transforming Quadrant House: Rotating Terrace Follows the Sun
More than anything, the owners of a new transforming house in Poland wanted constant, direct access to sunlight. They commissioned the local firm KWK Promes to realize their unusual vision, and ...
IKEA’s Latest Project: Designing Low-Cost Flat-Pack Dementia Villages
Across the globe, populations of older people are growing dramatically, and few plans are in place to properly care for them. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says 8.5 percent of people ...
Emoji Revenge: A California Spite House for the Digital Age
When a California woman's neighbors reported her for illegally turning her home into an AirBnb, she got back at them in a thoroughly modern way: with emojis. In an incident that’s referred ...
Customizable 3D-Printed Houses Form A Disaster-Resistant Affordable Community
In an unnamed city somewhere in South America, construction is set to begin on a 3D-printed village designed specifically for families living on less than $200 per month. San Francisco-based ...
Mediterranean Mirage: House Disguised as a Floating Island of Carved Earth
What appears, from a distance, to be a slice of land levitating above the hills of Santorini, Greece is actually an incredible modern home set on a lower level that acts like a mirrored plinth. ...
Street Tree Pods: A Creative Proposal to Add More Housing to London
Like urban treehouses, each of these “street tree pods” rises from a parking space to nestle within the branches of a tree, providing compact, low-cost living space for people in need of ...
Garden Room: Transforming an Urban Mumbai Apartment into a Lush Oasis
Just looking at the photos of these interiors, where would you guess this unusual verdant living space is located? The English countryside, maybe, or a rural land project full of experimental ...
