[ Filed under Transforming or in the Furniture category ] Ever wonder how those robots in the movies seem to transform into objects much larger or smaller than themselves? Laws of physics teach us what we intuitively know: it…
[ See more under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] Cavernous but wide open, dark and heavy but bright and spacious, this incredible underound house is the ultimate expression of architectural opposites fused into a single spectacular earthen…
[ See more under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] With the shape of a spaceship, scaled skin of some giant serpent and amazing futuristic forms that defy easy description, this home seems like some kind of science-fiction…
[ See more under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] First impressions: this building looks like more than one house – it is as if another house crash-landed into the original structure, or as if two houses were…
[ See more under Offbeat or in the Architecture category ] This amazing house is a trip both backward and forward in time – a vision of what designers from the past thought the future might look like. Strangest…
This combination living, working and lofted gallery space by Studio 010 Architects is based on an architectural idea that is at once absurdly simple and brilliantly subversive: invert the normal expectation of views (inside to out) from a home…
One of the oldest space-saving tricks in the interior design handbook involves making use of that leftover area underneath the stairs, the awkward extra space that does not always lend itself to cheap or easy storage solutions. These designs,…
As if Los Angeles did not already feel like a movie set, this hillside house by Robert Harvey Oshatz rises up like a giant robot or hovering spacecraft with amazing views – matched only by offbeat modern interior living…
It might look precarious and is definitely designed for heavy drinking, but the above glassware really is for the discerning (or at least brave) wine connoisseur. This is just one of the offbeat dinnerware designs through which Kyouei Design…