250 LED panels turn this art festival ticket booth into part of the show
This year's Amsterdam Light Festival features a giant biometric structure that not only consistently changes its LED lights but acts as its ticketing booth.
The best part of this minimalist Pacific Northwest cabin is outside the window
Located in Case Inlet at Washington state's Puget Sound, this gorgeous, low-maintenance cabin was designed to celebrate the area's hikers and campers.
Climb, hike, or fly. Reaching this ultra-remote Slovenian cabin isn’t easy
Accessible via mountain climbing or by helicopter, Mount Kanin's Kanin Winter Cabin provides visitors with gorgeous views of neighboring Italy and Slovenia.
This 1,000-square-foot luxury tent costs more than some houses
The Autonomous Tent costs $100,000 and is about as luxurious as you would expect for that price.
Danish students take to the seas in floating shipping container apartments
By utilizing modular shipping container homes in Copenhagen's urban harbors, Urban Rigger and architecture firm Bjarke Ingels have reinvented student dorms.
Try to find a right angle in Bangalore’s melty, futuristic ‘Elastica’ house
Built by the Bangalore, India-based architecture firm, Cadence Architects, this unique home appears as though it's melting a la a Salvador Dali painting.
This $3.6 million La Jolla home features a roof reminiscent of a blooming lotus flower
Designed by renown architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg, this $3.6 million La Jolla home features Douglas fir-clad interior and a blooming lotus flower roof.
Upstate New York's amazing 'ReActor' house is like a home on a seesaw
ReActor house tilts and rotates in response to prevailing wind conditions and the varying weight distribution of its occupants.
Prenuptial Housing lets couples on the outs easily split their home in half
Conceptualized by a Dutch entrepreneur, Prenuptial Housing is a prefabricated floating home that easily splits in two should a couple divorce.
Aircrafts and Cottages: Artist blends architectural philosophies in family home
A tour of the home he created for himself and his family illustrates how unique the space is, while illustrating his thoughts on architecture and life.
Will future buildings be built from artificial bone and eggshell?
We need to find a less energy-intensive way to process concrete and steel, or we need to develop new buildings materials that are more energy efficient.
These Inception-like cityscapes were designed autonomously by a computer program
Brown fed images of buildings into fractal equations, plugged random numbers into an algorithm, and generated cityscapes reminiscent of The Fifth Element.
With StoneCycling, your next home could be made out of your last one
Two Dutch architects have developed a method for using waste building material to make sustainable bricks capable of being used to build structures.
Sustainability the focus of Danish architecture firm’s villages
Developed at Stanford University by James Ehrlich and designed by the Danish firm EFFEKT, ReGen Villages would essentially produce its own food and energy.
London’s Flood House imagines a world covered entirely by water
Designed by London-based architect Matthew Butcher, Flood House navigates the Thames Estuary in an effort to reunite architecture with the environment.
Africa’s Gota Dam Residence is the perfect spot for plotting world domination
Located in an undisclosed area of Africa, the Gota Dam Residence may scream "evil lair," but it was actually designed for recording musicians.
Could this massive, wind-powered skyscraper solve global warming?
Paolo Venturella Architecture says the key to cooling the globe is to build a skyscraper that extends toward the sun and guides hot air away from Earth.
Rest on the seventh: Anupama Kundoo designs houses to be built in six days
Ferrocement could be the material of the future for housing in developing nations, with architect Anupama Kundoo showing us the way.
Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation among 2016 National Design Award winners
Cooper Hewitt announced its 2016 National Design Award winners this week with Marina Bay Sands designer Moshe Safdie nabbing the Lifetime Achievement Award.
There's no need to grow gills to live in this floating villa with an underwater level
The Floating Seahorse is Dubai's latest innovative project, consisting of floating villas with underwater rooms.
Amsterdam’s Wikkelhouse takes cardboard to a long-lasting, cozy new level
Designed by Pritzker-winning architect Shigeru Ban, the Wikkelhouse is a home comprised of 24 layers of cardboard wrapped around a house-shaped mold.
When you live in a 309 sq. ft. apartment, the bathtub doubles as a couch
When you live in 309 sq. ft., you have to sacrifice dreams of a full-sized kitchen or home theater. But this transformable apartment that fits it all in.
This architect’s custom Lego room is straight from your childhood dreams
Architect Jeff Pelletier loved playing with Legos so much as a kid that he became an architect. He made a whole room to house his crazy collection.
Architects have high hopes for this Tiny+ home made out of hempcrete
Green Built is creating a first-of-its-kind Tiny+ house made out of hempcrete, a natural, non-toxic, renewable material.
You may want to curl up inside these cat houses designed by architects
Architects for Animals held a competition for architect-designed cat house. Proceeds from an auction benefit FixNation, which spays and neuters strays.
Day or night, this glowing cabin lets visitors see a gorgeous glowing map of the stars
Designed by the London-based firm George King Architects, the Stargazer's Cabin is an illuminated hut which features a glowing display of constellations.
How this 18th-century English barn transformed into a modern smart home
The Ancient Party Barn was derelict, having been built in the 18th century. Now it's been brought it into the modern era by adding some smart features.
The world’s largest underwater restaurant is set to open later this year in the Maldives
The Hurawalhi Island Resort and Spa in the Maldives is expected to open the world's largest underwater restaurant and event space later this year.
Brawn over beauty: This concrete house typifies the Brutalist movement
Located in Belgium, the Van Wassenhove House is made of concrete and is an example of the Brutalist Movement, which favored rugged design over beauty.
Cliffs of Insanity: This house will be built right into the rock (Update)
Casa Brutale is a conceptual cliff house that would jut out over the Aegean Sea. Made of glass, concrete, and wood, it has a swimming pool for a roof.
Origami architecture? New shape-shifting material from Harvard could make it possible
A new material developed by Harvard engineers and inspired by origami could make adaptive, foldable buildings, portable shelters, and more.
A Russian billionaire wants to build a cobra-like skyscraper in Japan
Architect Vasiliy Klyukin took to his blog this week to reveal the ambitious details of constructing a cobra-like skyscraper in China or Japan.