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…

[ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] Avante garde architectural, ostentatious art or an eyesore? Cool conversation piece, creative but cliche or downright kitsch? This new hotel in the Netherlands has sparked a great deal of…

[ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] It is hard to conceal where you keep your cars – let alone planes. Many detached-garage house designs avoid conflating the rather bland and boring part designated for parking…

[ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] Everything about this project is bizarre and inspired, from the way the initial concrete-and-hay mass was poured (into the very soil itself) to the calf that grew into a…

[ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] These designs go beyond bizarre, slip past strange and go straight to spectacular. From hotels in the air and underground houses to  cave dwellings and floating homes, these works…

[ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] Vacation property may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Iran, but tucked away in Kandovan are some of the most amazing houses…

[ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] You would have to multiple the “ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall” from the old tune by six hundred thousand to make this whole glass home. It took…

[ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] Like a metallic monolith buried in the sand on top of an otherwise-untouched msa, this building was created to look as solid as a stone amongst the howling desert…

[ Filed under More or in the Do-It-Yourself category ] From camouflage pixel-homes to rainbow-colored houses, a leopard-printed abode to a dalmatian-spotted dwelling, here are some of the most creative, innovative and unusual house-painting colors and ideas you have…

[ Filed under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] Stairs and ramps have slopes and slants, but building floors are precision-tuned to be as flat as they can be constructed … right? This topsy-turvy rural dwelling inverts tradition…