Swedish, prefab cabin with sliding glass doors can be delivered by helicopter.
Story and more photos via design-milk>http://tinyurl.com/aayzwtp
Blue Sky weekend-house near Joshua Tree is on columns. Every room has a door to outside; steel sprayed with vinegar.
tumblr>hperform.dwell>txt slide show>http://tinyurl.com/cmgbu2w
House designed for a flood plain of the Danube. Would it work on Long Island?
Details and more pix via archdaily> http://tinyurl.com/alxwgyd
Portable, free-standing hotel rooms now available. DROP is a pod suitable for "natural locations" since it has minimal ground contact....
Story and images via designboom: http://tinyurl.com/altsv24
Not a residence, but a platform for living. Get it? North Face tent on roof. A refuge in the woods. A camp site. Stretching what a house could be? Check out slide show images.
Via tumblr> hyperform> dwell> slide show:http://tinyurl.com/b4deb53
San Francisco joins micro-apartment trend, approving 250 square foot pads. Give those singles a place to sleep! But will SRO hotels and rooming houses return?
via inhabitat.com> http://tinyurl.com/acur8cq
French housing project. Although they function as a sign, I want to live in one of the houses on the roof. But, really, hierarchy prevails; must be something about France.
Text & more pix via dezeen.com> http://tinyurl.com/br5vh2x
"We are the primitive men of the future and this is our future cave." Pod or sculpture?
Story, pix and video via designboom>http://tinyurl.com/awellxr
Three-room, concrete Japanese house with no windows, but with two dramatic light wells on the roof. Entrance is a door at the side. Darkness, starkness, bareness can be cozy. House is a light-trap and the light moves and changes from hour to hour, from day to day, from month to month. A mattress on the floor is all I would need.
Interiors and text via dezeen.com>http://tinyurl.com/c53yuwq
"Sloping House," on the edge of an extinct volcano in France, is a temporary, one-person
refuge.
Txt & more pix via designoom> http://tinyurl.com/cojjyhh
New "Hill House" on Melbourne narrow lot. Solutions: placement in the old backyard; put the kids on the side in their own dorm; build a hill for solar orientation. AND enter through the kitchen.
Pix, txt, diagrams of process via archdaily>http://tinyurl.com/bm4ars7
Following up on a link to the plans for a 20 ton tree house (!), I found this suspended pod to be more interesting....We will check back when the 20 ton tree house is actually built.
More pix via dezeen> http://tinyurl.com/aqbgmpv
My neo-modern vacation home on the Greek Island of Milos. If only! Of course, it is bit too big for the 21st century, right?
Pix/details via dezeen: http://tinyurl.com/coby4k5
Economical, half-buried "Nest" house by a rice field, inspired by burrows.
Txt & pix via DorNob: http://tinyurl.com/cqfqr7s
Can this really be? An attractive pre-fab house? Well, it is in Madrid. Note: On site details and images are on horizontal scroll.
Details: http://tinyurl.com/b5gjutv
Discovered on one of our favorite sites: sutilitas.tumblr.com
Or you could use a flagstone path to point out the door, as in this minimalist, neo-modern house in Portugal.
Txt & more pix:http://blog.leibal.com/interiors/residential/house-belas/
Where is the door? Paint it red. Or pink. Or yellow. Or lime green.
Px & txt via design-milk: http://tinyurl.com/bhlnkls
"House with Elephant Skin," Austria. On the grounds of a former commune, plywood and plastic foam....
Txt & pix via subtilitas.tumblr: http://tinyurl.com/cds4usq
Coming to a store near you soon, Cocoon #1. Sleep, read, eat. Is it furniture or housing?
Txt & pix via architizer: http://tinyurl.com/ba3oo6v
Not House and Garden, but house IS garden, in Portugal, with a swimming pool on the roof.
Txt & pix via dezeen: http://tinyurl.com/dx29aqh
Beautiful house with only two windows, in Portugal. And they face each other...
txt & pix via dezeen: http://tinyurl.com/d8oegr7
"Machi House." Updating a traditional house, connecting the past and the present.
Text & pix via spoon-tamango: http://tinyurl.com/agu8ajg
Imagining a Japanese author's hut made 800 years ago...by using magnets.
Story & images via spoon-tamago: http://tinyurl.com/ak3372x
Hobby House in Japan. Skateboarding and music are the themes. Checkout the interiors of "Skate Park House."
Interiors at designboom.com: http://tinyurl.com/bhzzl4k