Tent Tenements Can be Elegant

Modular Tent "Tenements." Better to call them tentacles or tent villages or tent colonies.

First sited on living-off-the-grid then to> dornob>http://tinyurl.com/beoqc9b

Japanese TARDIS House for Family of Five

Another TARDIS house from Shinozaki. Inside is definitely bigger than outside....."House for a Family of Five." Dr. Who's telephone booth TARDIS is bigger inside then outside, really bigger. 

Slide show> http://www.shnzk.com/detail7.html

TARDIS House for Japanese Couple

More from Shinozaki --- "House T for a Couple," Tokyo. Built, I think on what the Japanese call a flagpole site: alley frontage leads to "flag" for house. Again the interiors are spectacular... House is also a studio. 

Slide show> http://www.shnzk.com/detail11.html

Narrow House for Violinist

More from Shinozaki --- "House F for Violinist." Compression! But note the lovely arch entrance on ground floor. 

Slideshow> http://www.shnzk.com/detail12.html

It's All in The Angles!

H House in Chiba uses angles and beams inside and out as a plus...

Via Leibal > Shinozaki Associates>http://www.shnzk.com/detail15.html

Studio and House in Apple Orchard

Small footprint house and studio for a musician, in an apple orchard in New Zealand. Need an apple? Just reach out, to the strains of William Tell.

Txt, pix, & floorplans via designboom> http://tinyurl.com/arwjvkx

Off-Grid Cabin in Maine

On an island off the coast of Maine, sustainable, off-grid cabin --- 30 years in the making.

From inhabitat to dwell > ttp://tinyurl.com/agpn3ux