Off the Block: 13 Out-There Apartment Designs in Japan
Japanese architects have come up with some of the world’s most extreme, clever and off-the-wall solutions for spatial challenges, manipulating the shapes and interior layouts of apartment ...
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.
Mobile Village: Seattle Teens Build Micro-Homes for Homeless
Serving a nomadic homeless shanty town known as Nickelsville, the Impossible City project involves a group of a teenagers who are creating not just tiny houses but also solar power stations, ...
Luxury Retrofit: New 440-Square-Foot Condo Hidden in Old Garage
Boxed in on both sides, this once-homely little garage space is now a cozy high-end condo, its rusted white corrugated metal front replaced with a still-concealing wood facade serving to hide ...
IKEA to Produce & Ship 10,000 Flat-Pack Emergency Shelters
With 40 test units created and deployed since 2013, IKEA is now ready to begin mass-producing its $1,000-per-unit temporary flat-pack house to destinations in need around the world. Much like ...
Dr. Seuss Tower House: Storybook Structure Grew with the Trees
One odd slightly off-kilter story after another was added to this once-modest house in Alaska as the trees decimated by a wildfire grew taller and taller, the owner insistent upon maintaining his ...
UP for Auction: Bids Fail to Save World-Famous Holdout House
In the esoteric realm of 'nail houses' - properties whose owners refuse to sell them to developers at any cost - Edith Macefield's may be the most well-known, but her century-old home now appears ...
Megablock Microclimate: Urban Treehouse Apartment Complex
Shrouded in 150 trees that absorb 200,000 liters of carbon dioxide per hour, this massive five-story, block-spanning residential building occupies its own protected ...
Adaptive Architecture: 12 Transforming & Convertible Buildings
The exterior walls of homes slide back to reveal transparent volumes, the facade of a parking garage ripples like the surface of a nearby river and individual rooms rise high into the sky at the ...
Hovering Home: Near-Invisible Mirrored Forest Residence
A white box seems to hover in mid-air in the middle of the forest, with no visible supports suspending it from adjacent trees. This structure isn't a treehouse at all, and it's actually at least ...
The High Life: 12 Incredible Residential Tree House Designs
We've seen tree houses that function as oversized sculptures, play structures for kids, sky-high tea houses and elevated retreats for work or meditation, but how many tree house designs actually ...
