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Where the Fishes Sleep: Underwater Homes Shelter Wildlife

Artist Jason deCaires Taylor is no stranger to the otherworldly underwater environment. In fact, he has created some of the most amazing, ethereal scenes one can ever see beneath the surface. ...

Striking Gravel-Covered Japanese House is a Study in Contrasts

Monolithic and dramatic, the two-story Ginan House by Keitaro Muto Architects is a wedge-shaped residence with a dark gravel-covered exterior that contrasts beautifully with a stark white ...

Tiger Stripes to Cow Spots: 13 Playful Home Paint Jobs

What would your homeowners association say if you were to step way, way outside the bounds of normal home exteriors and do something way creative with your home's appearance? These people did ...

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 ...

13 Crazy Air, Sea & Land Vehicle-to-House Conversions

When airplanes have made their last flight, ships are no longer seaworthy and school buses are finished ferrying children to and fro, where do they go to die? Many end up in object graveyards, ...

Cloud House Elevates Organic Architecture to New Heights

Why should houses be geometric? Flowing, curving organic shapes often have a warmer and more comforting feel, billowing around the homes' inhabitants like a cozy blanket - or, in this case, ...

Fire-Inspired: 14 Converted & New Lookout Tower Homes

Look out! These 14 tall and narrow houses rise up above the landscape to enable incredible panoramic views of rustic nature preserves, lakes and city skylines. Some are converted from old fire ...

Decay in Detroit: Feral House Photos by James Griffioen

The word 'feral' has a dark and unsettling connotation: wild, dangerous, likely to turn on you at any moment. The word is most often applied to domesticated animals that have reverted back to a ...

If Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water Were a Tree House

Fallingwater, the legendary architectural masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright, famously includes elements of its natural surroundings. Specifically, the house integrates the waterfall on top of ...

Lollipop House: Striped and Candy-Bright in South Korea

Standing out as comically absurd in a cityscape of unremarkable beige buildings, the Lollipop House by architect Moon Hoon is absolutely one-of-a-kind. With its odd shape and nearly windowless ...

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