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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.

Operable Facade: Front Wall & Windows Conceal Hidden Garage Door & Lift

New Zealand architect Jonathan Smith worked with a cabinetmaker to carefully deconstruct part of this 1890s home in Auckland, then assembled a set of automatic doors as well as a moving fence to ...

Shape-Shifting Chinese Smart Home Uses Open-Source Building Technology

Set in a traditional Beijing hutong, this cozy futuristic house has a shape-changing layout and employs construction techniques available for download on WikiHouse, an open-source architecture ...

Neo-Rustic Concrete Retreat: Coastal Cottage Blends Brutalism & Minimalism

The simple and linear form of this remote vacation home juts out from a cliff over a sea-lion reserve in Chile; crafted to look aged and monolithic, it appears almost like a modern ruin in the ...

Future Housing: 6 Forward-Thinking Visions Make Dense Cities More Livable

As much as 40% of the urban housing needed by the year 2030 hasn’t been built yet, meaning the equivalent of New York City has to be constructed somewhere in the world every single month until ...

Drag and Drop Housing: 12 Fast-Deploying Prefab Designs with Modern Style

You could receive delivery of your brand new home on the back of a truck, watch as they plop it down on the building site, press a button and allow it to self-deploy within minutes. That kind ...

Final Estate: Beloved Architect Zaha Hadid’s Only House Design is Complete

Known for designing dynamically curved structures in cities, Zaha Hadid's only single-family residential project is certainly aligned with her signature style but also reacts to a very different ...

Tree-ness House: An Urban Jumble of Concrete Volumes & Terraces

A maze-like tower of voids and projections looms above the streets of Tokyo, offering residents cascading outdoor spaces all along the building’s roof and facade. ‘Tree-ness House’ by ...

Fuller House: 15 Geodesic Dome Creations Pay Tribute to Bucky’s Classic

Architect, engineer and inventor Buckminster Fuller developed the world’s most infamous dome structure while searching for the most efficient housing solution possible during the 1940s. The ...

The Modern Cabin: 14 Moody Wilderness Getaways Go Beyond the Rustic

A cabin is defined both by a remote location and a certain rusticity, whether it's a wilderness hut for hikers or a family retreat, but that doesn't mean it has to be a basic wooden shack. Modern ...

Vernacular Void: Wood Walls Warm Negative Space in Gray Brick Home

In a stark play of contrasts, a rich wooden passageway tunnels through this otherwise modern residence made up of small colorless masonry blocks, slicing like a house-shaped cookie cutter through ...

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