From colorful paintings and detailed line drawings of delivery trucks and mobile homes to actual full-scale bike-and-shopping-cart camper construction projects, artist and designer Kevin Cyr seems (healthily) obsessed with portable housing and mobile living. In his own unique creations,…
A world-wide sensation, this working human-scale Lego home constructed from over 800,000,000 miniature colored bricks attracted the attention of toy fans and architects alike. Equally amazing: without a taker for this free Lego structure, its creator was forced to…
This dynamic house design is all kinds of awesome – that is: if you can get past the dizzying angles that confront you at nearly every corner, uncanny material transitions and incredible structural intersections both inside and out. Metal,…
A log cabin, tree house or mobile home for sale on eBay for $12,000 already sounds like a steal – but this brilliant buy featured all three combined (well, at least if you are willing to work loosely with…
Sometimes it seems impossibly challenging to match the natural aged beauty of a historic structure, while in other cases the addition of a sleek modern building extension can create a contrast that enhances the aesthetics of both old and…
Street graffiti has always been at the heart of conceptual controversy, alternatively praised as pure urban artistic expression and condemned as property-destroying vandalism. One way to test the aesthetic potential of graffiti forms, styles and and symbols is to…
Japanese home designs are known for their simplicity, stark aesthetics and sense of balance … so while this beach house has elements that fit in with traditional minimalism and elemental modernism, the strangely postmodern home-shaped windows stand out all…
While she has cast everything from ordinary objects to the spaces under stairs in concrete, perhaps the most impressive and controversial work by installation artist and sculptor Rachel Whiteread is simply titled House . Like a photographic negative, it…
History teaches us to thing of ornament as something additive and permanent, a metal encrustation no an otherwise ordinary building facade or a specially carved piece of wooden trim. Ornamentation, however, can be dazzling, impressive and transform the entire…
Powered by solar energy from the sun above, supplied with drinking, washing and bathing water by the surrounding waves and naturally ventilated via the ocean winds, this ultramodern minimalist house is designed to be entirely off-the-grid – an energy-independent…