Thursday, November 29, 2012
Make A Silo Into A House
How to repurpose a silo and make it a house. Diagrams included.
Details and more pix via designboom: http://tinyurl.com/csn5fqg
Willem Dafoe's Rubber House
Actor Willem Dafoe's black-rubber house in upstate N.Y.
Story & pix via remodelista: http://tinyurl.com/cj4ay2d
112 black houses: http://tinyurl.com/aklwyst
Warming Huts on Ice
Warming huts for world's longest frozen river.
Story and drawings via architizer: http://tinyurl.com/bogxfgb
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Slovenian Alpine Hut
Slovenian alpine hut. Catch the movie. Some hut!
Story, pix and video via dezeen: http://tinyurl.com/c3c5zet
Green House
Green has two meanings. Caretaker's House made of local, green timber by Invisible Studio.
Story & pix via archdaily.com: http://tinyurl.com/bljoe4w
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Quilted Cube Home
Chinese quilted cube mobile home for tricycle. One wall slides open as door.
Story & pix via dezeen.com: http://tinyurl.com/cdjueu7
Monday, November 26, 2012
Private Gallery by Holl
Private gallery in upstate N.Y. by Steven Holl. Details!
Pix and profile via remodelista.com:http://tinyurl.com/c6pcoc2
Folly Competition
New folly competition; last year's winner.
Details via residentialarchitect: http://tinyurl.com/c39f7sj
Sunday, November 25, 2012
My Swedish Summer House
Already dreaming of July and my summer house in Sweden. If only!
Txt & slide show via residentialarchitect:http://tinyurl.com/btzotnn
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Swedish Prefab Cabin by Helicopter
Swedish, prefab cabin with sliding glass doors can be delivered by helicopter.
Story and more photos via design-milk>http://tinyurl.com/aayzwtp
Neo-Modern Desert House
tumblr>hperform.dwell>txt slide show>http://tinyurl.com/cmgbu2w
On The Flood Plain Of The Danube
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
Friday, November 23, 2012
Portable Hotel Room Pods
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
Earthquake-Proof House in Chile
New earthquake-proof house in Chile. Elegant!
Story and pix via dezeen.com> http://tinyurl.com/avhaqvw
Story and pix via dezeen.com> http://tinyurl.com/avhaqvw
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Retreat Platform for Living.
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 Goes Micro!
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
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
I'll Take The House on The Roof!
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
Future Pod or Minimalist Sculpture?
"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
The House with No Windows
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
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Tree Houses Built to Order
Baumraum in Bremen, Germany, will build a tree house for you anywhere. Pictured is one of their tree houses in Upstate New York.
Eat your heart out: http://www.baumraum.de/pages/2/gallery/
Cabin Porn!
For those Artopians who dream of a cabin away from it all, two sites I found on tumblr through freecabinporn may prove inspiring: projects in Putnam and Sullivan Counties in Upstate New York:
http://beaverbrook.com/
http://ashleysaturdays.tumblr.com/
And as always: http://freecabinporn.com/
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Sloping Hut
"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
House on Narrow Lot in Melbourne
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
Tree House Pod
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
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Neo-Modern on a Greek Island
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
Rice Field "Nest"
Economical, half-buried "Nest" house by a rice field, inspired by burrows.
Txt & pix via DorNob: http://tinyurl.com/cqfqr7s
Monday, November 12, 2012
Nomad Nest, Nomad Pod
"Lost in Translation" pod at the Interior Design Biennial in Belgium probes our nomadic future.
Via: dezeen: http://tinyurl.com/bzx8tkn
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Cabin or Villa? Words!
Words! Gorgeous "cabin" in California uses plywood and light. But if this is a cabin than my house is a hut...
Txt & pix at remodelista: http://tinyurl.com/ara3nw4
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Richard Tuttle's Guest House
Artist Richard Tuttle's guest house, by Steven Holl.
http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type&id=53
via another Artopia favorite: hyperform.tumblr.com
Friday, November 9, 2012
An Attractive Pre-Fab?
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
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