Rustic Swiss Structure Hides Modern Underground Home
Set into a landscape of grassy hills and deteriorating stone walls, a rustic 200-year-old wood and stone structure hides a wholly unexpected modern residence. The renovation in Linescio, ...
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Transparent Home: Glass Dwelling Puts Urban Life on Display
A beautiful and boldly open design, this see-through structure uses glass to reveal (and staggered layers to conceal) different parts of the everyday lives of its occupants. Designed ...
3D-Printed Columns Use Ancient Technique Against Earthquakes
Bringing together cutting-edge technologies and an ancient approach to resisting earthquake damage, the so-called Quake Column marries tradition and high-tech to create a bold new structural ...
Schematic of Structures: 90 Buildings, Prehistory to Present
This stunning blueprint-inspired poster takes you on a visual tour of 90 celebrated structures around the world, highlighting architectural achievements from the Greek Parthenon and Buckingham ...
Aerial Urbanism: Hyper-Dense ‘Cloud City’ Redefines Skylines
A complex spanning in seemingly all directions, this sky-oriented, cloud-shaped, forward-thinking design has just won the Shenzhen Super City Competition in China. It represents a critical way ...
Modern, Modular & Transforming Kids’ Furniture: 13 Designs
Why spend a fortune on a virtually endless array of aesthetically questionable kids' furniture, from birth to their teen years, when you could choose customizable, transforming, modern furniture ...
Fossilized Retreat: Log Cabin Remnants Recast in Concrete
Using the existing logs from a previous cabin structure as formwork, this retreat manages to retain the scale and textures of its predecessor in a dramatically modern new ...
Head Light: Popup Wall Lamp Has Horns that Glow in Shadows
A classy alternative to hanging animal parts, this deer head wall lamp started as a design concept, went viral as a prototype and has just been funded for full production via a successful ...
Hydraulic Lift to Save House on Stilts from Future Flooding
A Modernist classic, the famous Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe was originally built with a raised platform but that has not managed to save it from floods, leading its custodians to an ...
Tiny Frank Lloyd Wright-Inspired House Atop Miner’s Ruins
Gleaming glass, oxidized steel and matte black wood contrast with the rough concrete ruins of an old miner's shelter found in the desert near Scottsdale, Arizona. 'Miner's Shelter' was designed and ...
