Penny Wise: 12 Cool Copper-Clad Buildings
Copper's fiery glow, relative abundance and famed durability have served civilization well for countless centuries. The metal's many attributes have also endeared it to architects of all ages, from ...
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Architecture Meets Fashion: Shoes by Hadid, Gehry & More
How would the architectural styles of Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava translate to shoes? As these 6 collaborations prove, sometimes the results are just as you'd imagine, and ...
Branch Out: 20 Organic Tree Houses Are Naturally Amazing
Woven huts made of living saplings, artistic hotel rooms resembling bird nests and cabins dangling from 300-year-old spruces are among the stunning organic structures built from, in, and onto ...
Ultimate Wooden House Made of Jenga-Like Stacked Beams
Explore the seemingly endless platforms and hidden nooks of this Jenga-like house, conceived as an example of "ultimate wooden architecture" by Sou Fujimoto Architects. Located in Kumamoto, ...
Only in Japan : 13 Odd Houses by Suppose Design Office
Houses that look like little more than concrete or steel boxes from the outside offer exceptionally creative, efficient and welcoming interiors conceived by Japan's Suppose Design Office. The ...
Bunyan’s Pride: 19 Log Cabins That Stack Above The Rest
The typical rectangular cabin plopped in the middle of the woods is no longer the standard, as homeowners get increasingly creative with rustic housing, the designs are becoming larger than ...
Design Miami Tent Covered with Inflatable Sausages
Bundles of giant white inflatable sausages make a big visual impact on the exterior walls of the Design Miami tent at Art Basel. New York studio Skarnitecture covered the structure in vinyl tubes ...
Beyond Domes: 36 Photos of Burning Man Building Types
It would be a mistake to characterize Burning Man as merely a festival in the desert. For one week a year, an entire built environment (dubbed Black Rock City) for tens of thousands of residents ...
Stripped to Skeleton, Old Building Becomes Bright Art Lab
An unused building at the Monterrey Institute of Technology's León Campus in Mexico was stripped to its frame and re-imagined as a dynamic 'creative laboratory' with transparent walls and an ...
Bridge in Paris: Inflatable, Jumpable Urban Playground
With space increasingly at a premium in cities around the world, bodies of water - and the structures that span them - are becoming host to all sorts of unexpected functions. This concept by ...
