Steel and Bamboo Houses

Steel and bamboo housing for those of modest income in Viet Nam. And they look great!

Story & unages via dezeen: http://tinyurl.com/c77o8le

Fujimori's Flying Mud Boat Hut

Terunobu Fujimori's "Flying Mud Boat" is an eccentric, suspended hut. Is it art or architecture?

More pix & story at designboom: http://tinyurl.com/br6wpxo

Cabin for Rent

Rustic cabin for rent, Upstate N.Y. 

Details and pix via remodelista: http://tinyurl.com/c56mo9f

Every Room A Shed

"Draw the Village..." An experimental house with scattered units? What a terrific idea: each room a separate "shed."

More images via blog.leibal: http://tinyurl.com/dyveany

Chinese Ark

We do not believe that the end is at hand (Dec. 21?); the 
end of the world has already happened. Nevertheless....man uses life savings to build this ark. 

archinect> dailymail: http://tinyurl.com/d7spzx2

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

Slovenian Alpine Hut

Slovenian alpine hut. Catch the movie. Some hut!

Story, pix and video via dezeen: http://tinyurl.com/c3c5zet

Thin-Steel Tokyo House

Narrow, thin-steel house in Tokyo.

Story & pix via designboom: http://tinyurl.com/cxq4qoy

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

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

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

Tree Tents You Need

The only tree tents you will ever need!

Txt & slide show via inhabitat: http://tinyurl.com/bodnfw7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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