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Tiny house builder Everywhere offers a luxurious take on the classic A-frame cabin with its Ayfraym. Bringing to mind Build Tiny’s Buster, the cabin is available to purchase in two price points: either as a box of plans for US$1,950 for handy… Continue reading Ayfraym cabin lets you DIY or buy
After being commissioned to create an extension for a Victorian-era terrace in London, MATA Architects conceived a neat method of providing fine control over the amount of light inside and the privacy available. The firm installed a complex p… Continue reading Mechanical shutters control light and views in compact home office
Each year, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) honors outstanding projects that are built to a relatively small scale – both in size and cost – with its Small Project Awards. This year highlights a fine selection of architecture, including backcountry toilets, shipping container housing, a starchitect-designed tiny house, a stunning treehouse, and more.
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Continue Reading BIG ideas and innovative design highlighted in this year’s Small Project Awards
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Russia’s Strawmodul recently completed a prefabricated tiny house that’s part-built from straw. The modular dwelling has enough space for two people as standard, but can be expanded too, and can also optionally run off-the-grid with solar power.
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Continue Reading Flexible tiny house’s straw walls are better insulators than brick
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Russia’s BIO Architects previously built a cabin on the water and now it has produced one that’s above some water. The aptly-named Bridge House is designed to withstand its country’s famously harsh winters and spans a small river on a farm.
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The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, has undergone a little work in recent years, including a first floor renovation and the addition of some wind turbines, but now the land surrounding the iconic building will receive a makeover too. The first… Continue reading Massive landscaping project to bring site of iconic Eiffel Tower to life
KWK Promes was commissioned to create a house in a suburban area of central Poland and given the instruction that it must respond to the sun in some way. The firm came up with a remarkable luxury home centered around a novel moving terrace.
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MAD Architects’ Harbin Opera House remains one of its most impressive projects to date and the firm has just revealed another striking project for the same region that also riffs on the bitterly cold conditions in that part of the world. Conceived for the existing Harbin Taiping International Airport, the Harbin Airport T3 resembles a giant snowflake.
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Continue Reading MAD’s snowflake-shaped airport terminal references China’s chilly north
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Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) is planning to bring something of the Italian countryside to inner-city Milan with its Vitae project. The eye-catching building will host research facilities, offices and a restaurant, and will be covered in greene… Continue reading Mixed-use office building brings a little countryside to the city
New York City’s High Line elevated park proved such a good idea that it’s since been replicated around the world, including Seoul’s Seouullo and Sydney’s Goods Line. Londoners will soon be able to enjoy something similar too, courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
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Continue Reading London’s High Line-style elevated park to rise with the Tide
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