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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.

Home Anywhere: Compact Cabin Hosts Urban Pioneers on Berlin Rooftops

Affordable apartments are getting harder to find in just about every major city, but if we want to multiply our options, we just have to look up. That’s the idea behind Cabin Spacey, a modular ...

In-Floor Wayfinding: Textured Tiles Guide Blind Client Through New Home

To address the needs of a visually impaired client, architects in Thiene, Italy, worked from the start to integrate a custom wayfinding system into the structure and layout of this home, ...

Brazilian Hybrid: Herringbone Home Blends Bamboo & Modern Simplicity

This tropical residence along the coast of Brazil combines traditional and local materials like stone, wood and bamboo to fashion a contemporary-looking abode that fits into both its natural and ...

Ballet Mécanique: House Facade Transforms to Offer Pop-Out Balconies

In Zurich, the mechanical facade of an unusual house performs an intricate dance, with petal-like louvers opening and closing as balconies pop out and lock into place. Dubbed ‘Ballet ...

Constructing the Future: Defining and Designing Better Affordable Housing

The United States currently has a shortage of about 7.2 million affordable and available rental homes for households with incomes at or below the poverty level, a statistic that’s clearly ...

With Amazon on the Scene, Has Shipping Container Housing Gone Too Far?

Shipping containers may seem like a self-contained drag and drop solution for quick and affordable housing, but the process of making them livable is a lot more complicated than that. The premise ...

Small Steps: One Man’s Down-To-Earth Lunar Lander Home

The Lunar Lander Home, inspired by the LM that took NASA's Apollo astronauts to the Moon, is a visionary boat designer's Space Age living space. Most people like homes with lots of ...

Summer Houses: 7 Tropical Dream Dwellings by Wallflower Architecture & Design

Based in Singapore, Wallflower Architecture + Design creates ultimate tropical dream homes for a steamy rainforest climate, each one laid out for optimal air flow, natural cooling and views of ...

Modulofts: Sliding Walls Divide Interior Space & Provide Exterior Shade

A new housing project in Beirut uses flexible wall dividers in an unconventional way, allowing huge steel panels to slide into and out of the structure itself, animating the facade while ...

Cast-in-Place Innovation: The World’s First 3D-Printed Concrete Houses

A series of elaborately curved houses designed for Eindhoven will rest like large boulders in the Dutch landscape, illustrating the complex forms made possible by new and evolving 3D-printing ...

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