Tag: Architecture - Page 4
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What Were They Thinking: Tiny Mobile Home Made Completely Out of Spray Foam
Looks cute and fluffy, but we're not sure we'd live in it.
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Lightweight, Recyclable Tree Tent is Inspired by Airships
Combining airship and autosport design principles, this low-impact shelter allows you to sleep suspended among the trees.
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Fresh Japanese Style Mobile Tiny Home is a "Little Piece of Sky"
Cedar panelling and a roof outfitted with clerestory windows make this tiny home on wheels a light and fresh place to live in.
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$200 Earthen Geodesic Dome Cabin Uses Salvaged Materials
This cozy cabin in the woods was an exercise in resourcefulness and even bartering of skills for a community of natural builders in Oregon.
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Transformer Apartment Has Pre-Programmed Height-Adjustable Kitchen Surfaces
From solid wood sliding walls to a table that is designed to adjust to pre-programmed heights depending on need, this Chelsea apartment is luxury living in a relatively small space.
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Brazilian Architect Lina Bo Bardi Honoured in London
Lina Bo Bardi is a Brazilian architect whose sensitive and intelligent buildings are becoming widely appreciated.
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Pop-Up Housing Competition Designs Housing for the Homeless
Some innovative ideas for providing good low-cost housing for the homeless.
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Sun-Collecting, Parametric "Skin" Surrounds Student-Designed House
Balancing eastern and western philosophies of balance and autonomy, students from Tongji University use parametric design to create an efficient house of the future.
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Sleek Curved Design Transforms 550 Sq. Feet Apartment in the French Alps
Tiny-room specialists H2O Architects have come up with a superb design which accommodates four private sleeping areas while still doing this place's views justice.
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Secret Wind Patterns Revealed by Kinetic Facade (Video)
Unexpected flows of wind make an imprint on this intriguing architectural and scientific installation.
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The Box: Ralph Erskine's Precursory Tiny House in the Swedish Woods
Even with the growing number of tiny apartments and multi-functional homes coming up in the media these days this project shows the English architect had it right in the 1940s.
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Autark Home: A Self-Sufficient, Floating Passivhaus Houseboat
An ultra energy-efficient, solar-powered Passivhaus home for the water.
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Alternative Social Housing: Prefab, Add-On Homes to Densify Suburbs
How to provide housing for the masses getting out of poverty and out of slums in the developing world, without creating sprawl? Argentine architects propose attaching new homes to existing structures.
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Modern Japanese Ecovillage House Brings Nature Inside, Literally
A light-filled house in a Japanese ecovillage integrates the changing seasons of nature into the daily activities of its inhabitants.
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Tiny, Winter-Proofed, 215 Sq. Ft. Leaf House Fits Family of Four
A cozy, insulated and eco-friendly tiny mobile home made especially for cold, northern climates.
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The Week in Design: From High Lines To Low, From Tiny Boxes To Flatpacks
And a question: Does living in cities make you crazy?
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Adobe Playground Designed by Children and Architects
They call it a Super Adobe, these kids just call it fun.
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Quote of the Day: Weil Arets on the Future of Architecture
As the Dutch architect takes over as dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology, he looks at how the profession is changing
