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Boats + Yards: Dutch Architects Convert Cargo Ships into Waterfront Homes

Lifting cargo ships out of boat yards in the water up onto adjacent land, a Dutch design firm is creating a series of creatively recycled estates using maritime vessels that are no longer ...

Fast Driver: Powerless Auto-Hammer Packs Strip of Nails for DIY Projects

Nail guns can be handy but also bulky and awkward, not to mention: limited by the presence of batteries or electrical outlets. A new tool for the kit comes from product designer Michael David ...

A House to Die In: Oslo Officials Block Controversial Home Designed by Snøhetta

Designed to be a fittingly strange work of architecture on the grounds of famous painter Edward Munch's former home, A House to Die In has sparked controversy since its proposal some years ...

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, ...

Virtual Fixer Uppers: Buy, Renovate & Sell Homes in “House Flipper” Game

For those who enjoy fixing and flipping homes, this video game could be a dream come true, virtually speaking, letting you purchase rundown shacks and turn them into market-ready ...

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 ...

Retrofitting Ruins: Designer Turns 6 Abandonments into Modern Dwellings

The question of what to do with ruins is as old as architecture, and answers range from demolition to meticulous reconstruction, or: cleverly combining what's there with something new and ...

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 ...

Nano-House: World’s Smallest Home Built in a Vacuum by Micro-Robots

Standing just over one two-thousandth of an inch (.0006 inches), the world's tiniest home sits on an optical fiber lot that is about a million times smaller than a typical two-story, ...

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 ...

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