‘BUMPS In Beijing’: Breaking Free From Drab Slabs
Call it “urban jungle lite.” BUMPS In Beijing is a 5-building, mixed residential and commercial apartment complex located in the Chinese capital's prestigious Chaoyang District. Japanese ...
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.
Great Grandiosity! 9 of the World’s Most Expensive Houses
Keeping up with the Joneses? This is out of their league. The world's most expensive houses are the sanctuaries for the mega rich. With high-rise residences that take up the entire skyscraper, to ...
Almost Famous: 13 Houses from Major Hollywood Films
No matter how engaging the actors or riveting the plot, sometimes, you're distracted by something else in a film: a dramatic architectural setting that's so dazzling, it's practically a character ...
Water Villas: 3 Sleek Modern House Boats in Urban Settings
When the bustle of urban life becomes too much to bear, wouldn't it be nice to retreat to your own private floating getaway – without even needing to travel? Modern house boats have all the ...
Life-Size Monopoly House: The Art Of Green Architecture
If life's a game, you're gonna need some bigger playing pieces. When the game's Monopoly, you can count on at least one game geek artist to make your larger-than-life board game anything but ...
Concrete House on Stilts in Austria Has a Surprising Interior
A concrete rectangle hovers in the air, implausibly balanced feet above the ground on just four stilts. And as if the curiously gravity-defying qualities of the exterior aren't enough, the ...
Crisp White Angular Cantilevered ‘House R’ in Germany
Crisp and clean, 'House R' by architecture studio Bembé Dellinger looks right at home in the snowy winter landscape of Schondorf, Germany. Perched on the edge of Lake Ammersee, the multi-story ...
From Cappadocia to Missouri: Over 30 Gorgeous Cave Houses
Stone houses invoke thoughts of dark, cold, and damp places full of creepy creatures. Some cultures have battled these prejudices for centuries, building dwellings deep into rock, and now modern ...
Whatever Floats Your… House: 16 Amazing House Boats
House boats used to be glorified barges with a bathroom and a place to sleep. More recently, house boats have turned into residences of the wealthy. With as many comforts as a modern home, and a ...
Crafty Beetle-Inspired Tiny Treehouse by Terunobu Fujimori
Looking like a prop from a Tim Burton film, the little structure lives up to its name: Beetle's House. It stands on four slightly off-kilter legs presenting its charred pine wood exterior, like ...
