Don’t Throw Stones: Modern Glass House is Super Sharp
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, or forget that they're literally living in a fishbowl, if they have any modesty at all. Designed for a steep plot in Zurich, this ...
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.
Casa Cargo: Containers Frame Photographer’s Sustainable Home
Shaping both living spaces and modular work studios, a set of shipping containers were combined with a series of green building strategies to make this a place the ultimate home for a versatile ...
Form Follows Footprint: Forest Retreat Just Fits Local Codes
A creative response to a new legal loophole, this structure is designed specifically to test the limits of a Swedish planning law allowing buildings under a certain size to be constructed without ...
Iceberg Homes: London Boroughs Curb Luxury ‘Super-Basements’
It is increasingly common to find London properties that have more subterranean interior space than above-ground square footage, a byproduct of the wealthy desiring to build additions without ...
Illegal Skyway: Chinese Homeowner Bridges 2 Highrise Condos
Sky bridges are a common sight in many cities, but are generally used to create a semi-public pathway from one building to the next, not to illicitly join two private highrise units in ...
Deceptively Reflective: 12 Mirrored Buildings Trick the Eye
Intentionally fooling the eye to either completely disorient you or focus your vision on a certain part of a scene, these mirrored buildings reflect their surroundings, often seeming to disappear ...
Vertical City Farming: Undulating Mixed-Use Urban Community
Designed to provide a spaces for public gardening as well as senior living, this hybrid complex has a rich array of green roofs, terraces and facades allowing for locally-grown produce as well as ...
Built for Bond: 10 Impossibly Luxurious Spy-Inspired Designs
Over the past half-century, the James Bond movie franchise has inspired countless suits, man caves and cheesy spy gadgets, but it has also led designers and architects to create some pretty ...
Herringbone House: Tiny Tokyo Residence Split into 7 Levels
Measuring just 280 square feet, this tiny house in Tokyo by architecture firm Flathouse includes a public biscuit shop on the first level and manages to fit a lot of function into an irregularly ...
Concrete Retreat: 100 Sq Ft Home in WWII Dutch Defense Bunker
Sleek and multi-functional custom wood, glass and steel elements are set against a little-modified industrial concrete and metal backdrop in this stunning subterranean conversion project, turning ...
