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Outward Mobility: Clever Campers, Trailers & DIY Mobile Home Conversions

The 20th-century American dream of suburban houses and picket fences unfolded in parallel with another vision: freedom to roam, embodied in camper vans and other mobile housing designs. The ...

Amazing Apartment Makeovers: 15 Brilliant & Beautiful Remodels

Sometimes it's hard to see the potential hidden behind a mess of drop ceilings, darkening partition walls and hideously dated kitchens, but the bones of a residential space can be more beautiful ...

Modernized Monument: Crumbling Medieval Tower Turned Library

Matte black steel and timber-clad stacked volumes fill in empty spaces throughout the medieval Torre del Borgo in northern Italy, a recent renovation stabilizing the crumbling stone walls and ...

See Through Stone: 13 Aging Structures with Glass Extensions

The crumbling stone ruins of churches, farmhouses and barns are integrated into new structures that preserve and display their historic character while adding playful modern elements, like glass ...

Shop in a Swimming Pool: Neglected Space Turned into a Store

Until recently, this indoor swimming pool on the vacant ground floor of a 1970s apartment building in Tokyo was just an empty space, dry and disused for years. Now it's a pop-up shop by Nobuo ...

Compact Cube Home: Storage Unit Turned Micro Apartment

A compact space with thirty years' history as a storage unit is now a sleek, modern apartment outfitted with everything a single occupant needs with the addition of a built-in bed platform with ...

Religious Conversions: 15 Houses of Worship Turned Secular

Transforming these fifteen churches, monasteries and synagogues into homes, libraries and nightclubs hasn't put a damper on their sense of reverence and grandeur. Former houses of worship all ...

Sea Fort Retreat: Island Hotel in 1860s British Harbor Base

Known for its naval power, England has a great many leftover army and sea forts. Some have been turned into private islands, radio station or micronations, but this one has been made into a ...

Revealing Historical Photos Show US White House Gutted

Imagine the state of it: the United States executive mansion after 150 years of continuous occupation. By this time, the already-aging White House had been retrofit with a maze of modern ...

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