Rustic Ruins to Modern Residences: 3 Barn Renovations
Aging barns are often left to simply deteriorate, the stone crumbling, weathered wooden siding falling to the ground. But in their dramatic A-frame silhouettes and wide-open simplicity, some ...
Tag: Architecture
Walk on the Wild (Out)side: 14 Stunning Exterior Staircases
Some are so steep they're nearly vertical. Some cantilever from a wall ten stories off the ground, with no handrail. Some lead to the roofs of houses, while others lead nowhere at all. These 14 ...
Water Worlds: 15 Real-Life Floating Towns & Ocean Cities
There's only one Venice, but you might be surprised to find that you can get the same scenic and historic feel - complete with canal 'streets' and gondoliers - in several other towns across the ...
Magic Plan App Makes Amazing Automatic Floor Plans
Measuring the various rooms in your home is necessary if you want to remodel or redecorate, but it is quite a chore. Technology has fortunately made it simple to create a floor plan without the ...
Erupting Stability: Tornado-Proof Suburb Inspired by Turtles
When a tornado comes blowing through, you can sit vulnerable in a flimsy wooden box, or you can be like a turtle, pulling its head and limbs into its impervious shell. Turtles were among the ...
Glass Getaway: Tranquil Tea Houses in the Trees
Some people might choose the wide open desert, or a cliff overlooking the ocean. But when imagining the perfect place to relax, meditate or work on a creative project like writing a book, it's ...
Gold Metal Architecture: Olympic Stadiums, 1896 – 2012
Over the last 116 years, Olympic stadiums have gone from sprawling marble structures made from ancient Greek ruins to strikingly illuminated bird's nest-shaped buildings. Designed by architects ...
Bridging Home: House Wedged in an Alleyway by Do Ho Suh
Passing by this Liverpool alleyway and noting the bizarre sight of a small structure wedged between two buildings, you might wonder whether it was dropped from the sky, or perhaps pushed off the ...
Modular Madness: 23 Diverse Deployments of Cargo Containers
Portable, durable, stackable and readily available all over the world, shipping containers are the ideal building blocks for smart structures of practically every variety. Some require just a ...
The Answer to Sky-High Housing Prices: Houses in the Sky
In the capable hands of French photographer Laurent Chehere, ordinary houses become whimsical lighter-than-air structures. They shun the ground and take to the sky to float serenely, lingering ...
