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 ...
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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Flat-Pack Cat Cities: Modular Feline Architecture Inspired by Origami & Lego
Product-tested by a husband-and-wife team of architects in their own abode, 'A Cat Thing' was developed to let pet owners construct an endless array of feline crawling, hiding and resting spaces ...
Photographic Memory: Artist Covers Family Home in Pics Prior to Demolition
To celebrate 70 years of family memories, artist Gary Sweeney plastered his family home in Manhattan Beach with old photographs, an installation that lasted until the building was ...
Deserted Dollhouse: Street Artist Crafts Eerie Miniature Abandoned Home
Created over the course of six months, this 1:10 scale model of a rundown home may be the most creepy and depressing dollhouse ever created, softened somewhat with miniaturized graffiti murals by ...
Adaptive Architecture: Curved House Wraps Old Well, Reuses Stone Cistern
A contemporary home in Spain was designed to wrap a surface well and sits on the associated subterranean cistern, creatively converting it into the solid foundation and habitable basement of ...
Mies Makeover: Artists Cover Barcelona Pavilion’s Marble Walls with White
A minimalist icon by Mies van der Rohe is becoming even more minimal thanks to a series of vinyl screens installed over its ornate marble walls, making the full-size building look like a blown-up ...
