Crazy and curved both inside and out, the home was made of a combination of concrete and found materials, both inorganic but also natural (and relevant) ones including local seashells and regional coral. Instead of corners, each curve flows…
The wide-open oceans and seas of the world are a wonderful place to explore – from the comfort of a dry deck, at least. Some of us, though, are (justifiably) scared of swimming straight in these opaque bodies of…
It seems like some kind of strange fairy tale come true – and for the owner and designer of this small rural dream dwelling, perhaps it is. At under a hundred square feet, what was once a little hunting…
Many underground homes have relatively extreme designs, either due to ultra-wealthy clients who give their architects a (literal or at least metaphorical) blank check to design a luxury dream house, or because of existing conditions (for instance; retrofitting an…
To be fair, the ‘hand’ doing the crafting is in fact the extremity of a robotic arm, in turn connected to a highly advanced computer construction – still, the effect is incredibly convincing: these bricks look like they were…
One look at that outside is enough to stop you in your tracks – and once within it, you may want to walk before you start running around your new ‘mobile’ home. What is that giant cylinder and why…
Quick, easy and cheap to construct, this coat rack prototype by Vytautas Gecas nonetheless has quite a bit of (albeit unconventional) class – arguably even elegance. You could probably buy a set of rake or broom handles and simple…
Fifty years ago, international brewmaster Alfred Heineken created what may to this day be the most brilliant beer bottle ever designed. After the liquid contents are consumed, the rectangular bottles come become standard-sized bricks that could be stacked to…
[ Filed under Contemporary or in the Architecture category ] Like a diamond forged in the heart of a chunk of coal, the harsh concrete exterior of this house contains a sparkling floor-to-ceiling glass secret hidden from view –…
[ Filed under Architecture or in the Additions category ] A curved mound camouflaged in the surrounding landscape, it is no accident that this addition is almost invisible next to the warm and cozy, century-old cottage structure it sits…