Ultimate Wooden House Made of Jenga-Like Stacked Beams
Explore the seemingly endless platforms and hidden nooks of this Jenga-like house, conceived as an example of "ultimate wooden architecture" by Sou Fujimoto Architects. Located in Kumamoto, ...
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Only in Japan : 13 Odd Houses by Suppose Design Office
Houses that look like little more than concrete or steel boxes from the outside offer exceptionally creative, efficient and welcoming interiors conceived by Japan's Suppose Design Office. The ...
Design Miami Tent Covered with Inflatable Sausages
Bundles of giant white inflatable sausages make a big visual impact on the exterior walls of the Design Miami tent at Art Basel. New York studio Skarnitecture covered the structure in vinyl tubes ...
Stripped to Skeleton, Old Building Becomes Bright Art Lab
An unused building at the Monterrey Institute of Technology's León Campus in Mexico was stripped to its frame and re-imagined as a dynamic 'creative laboratory' with transparent walls and an ...
Bridge in Paris: Inflatable, Jumpable Urban Playground
With space increasingly at a premium in cities around the world, bodies of water - and the structures that span them - are becoming host to all sorts of unexpected functions. This concept by ...
Dynamic Shape-Shifting D*Haus Rotates to Follow the Sun
The shape-shifting D*Haus by UK designers David Ben Grünberg and Daniel Woolfson morphs and rotates to remain comfortable during all hours of the day, and all seasons. Designed as an homage to ...
Slim Living: World’s Thinnest House is Just Four Feet Wide
A four-foot-wide space between two buildings in Warsaw, Poland has become the world's thinnest house. Architect Jakub Szczesny built a series of vertical spaces into the void including a kitchen, ...
Rebuilding Infrastructure: Viaduct turned Holiday Home
Construction on the highway from Salerno to Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy began int he 1960s - and it's still not finished. A stretch that has been abandoned for decades includes a viaduct ...
Bridging Home: House Wedged in an Alleyway by Do Ho Suh
Passing by this Liverpool alleyway and noting the bizarre sight of a small structure wedged between two buildings, you might wonder whether it was dropped from the sky, or perhaps pushed off the ...
Plant Paradise: Artificial Pavilion Extends Dutch City into Lake
In a bid to host the World Horticultural Expo in 2022, the Dutch city of Almere has commissioned MVRDV to design an artificial pavilion that would extend the city out into a lake. The concept ...
