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Ana Lisa Alperovich-O'Brien is a freelance curator, journalist and tutor at the Design Academy Eindhoven teaching sustainability, biomaterials and bio design. She specialized in sustainable design & architecture and loves reporting from global design week events and writing architecture features. Born in Buenos Aires, she spent her 20s in London where she attended Goldsmiths University. Check out her website and Instagram.
Form Us With Love's wood wool tiles being applied to a wall

These colorful hexagonal wall tiles are made from sound-absorbing "wood wool"

These colorful hexagonal wall tiles by Form Us With Love strike a brilliant balance between sustainable materials,...

Moab Monkeys, hand-knitted net, Mothership Space Net Penthouse, Thanksgiving activities, crazy highliners, Moab, Utah, Andy Lewis

Stupefying hand-knitted hammock is suspended above a 400-foot-high canyon

Every year high-liners from around the world gather during Thanksgiving in Moab, Utah to enjoy the Mars-like environment...

Instructables, Mike Warren, glow-in-the-dark table, DIY table, how-to, rugged wood table, photo luminescent powder, resin mix

HOW TO: Make a stunning wooden table with glow-in-the-dark resin infill

If you are looking for a cool DIY project to brighten up your home, look no further than this brilliant glow-in-the-dark...

Couple spent 20 years building Freedom Cove, their self-sufficient floating oasis

Couple spent 20 years building Freedom Cove, their self-sufficient floating oasis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrBAKZjUxIE Adams and King have been living in their own self-made floating...

Martin Stratker, Las Olas, fairy tale accomodation, Bolivian hotel, Copacabana, Bolivia, local builders, German sculptor, animal shaped building, snail building, Ana Lisa Alperovich

Beautiful adobe hotel in Bolivia belongs in a fairy tale

With shelters shaped like tortoises, a teepees, and snails, among other natural forms, Las Olas is easily spotted....

Bubble lamps, Holons, Holon lamps, bubble designs, Martens & Visser, Jetske Visser, Michiel Martens, floating soap bubbles, Reflecting HOLONS, Dutch Design Week 2016, Artspace MU, Glow Festival 2015, light reflecting art, Eindhoven, Dutch design

These incredible lights look exactly like giant soap bubbles 

Dutch designers Martens & Visser created a collection of mesmerizing kinetic objects that rotate and reflect...

Ukraine’s leafy green ‘Tunnel of Love’ is a passageway for trains and lovers

Ukraine's leafy green 'Tunnel of Love' is a passageway for trains and lovers

We love seeing natural architecture here at Inhabitat, and the leafy green Kleven train tunnel is a beautiful example...

Iredale Pedersen Hook, bricked house, Applecross Residence, Perth, Australia, Swan River, filter excessive natural light, glazed bricks, geothermal energy, geothermal chimeney

This gorgeous brick house is heated and cooled by the earth

Studio Iredale Pedersen Hook wrapped this beautiful family home in Australia with one of mankind's oldest and most...

Latvia’s Nature Concert Hall has a fabric skin that plays with the wind

Latvia's Nature Concert Hall has a fabric skin that plays with the wind

Latvian studioDidzis Jaunzems Arhitektūra recently completed construction of the Nature Concert Hall, a striking...

Suppose Design Office, translucent, Hiroshima, japan, polycarbonate, Daylighting, Architecture, green Interiors, energy efficiency, House in Tousuienn

Translucent House in Tousuienn Glows After the Sun Sets Over Japan

Made from a sturdy steel structure, this Hiroshima home is completely covered in polycarbonate, a long-lasting,...

DMP Aquitectura, Xomali House, Mexico City, tiny house, small plot of land, social architecture, gabled-roofed home

Xomali House in Mexico City makes clever use of a tiny 115 square foot lot

DMP Aquitectura built the Xomali House on a tiny plot of land of just 115 square feet in Mexico City. They carefully...

Marazzi Reinhardt, wooden façade, green home extension, Haus Zur Blume, historical home extension, Switzerland, slatted wooden façade, modern extension

An old Swiss farmhouse gets a striking wooden extension that juxtaposes past and present

Studio Marazzi Reinhardt recently updated an old farmhouse in the quiet Swiss village of Löhningen with a striking...

Iredale Pedersen Hook, bricked house, Applecross Residence, Perth, Australia, Swan River, filter excessive natural light, glazed bricks, geothermal energy, geothermal chimeney

Three-storey chimneys funnel geothermal energy into award-winning Perth home

Studio Iredale Pedersen Hook wrapped Perth's Applecross Residence in a traditional building material that dates...

7 eco-shelters for surviving the apocalypse

7 eco-shelters for surviving the apocalypse

Survival Condo: Bunker-Apartment in the US If you were looking for a totally indestructible shelter for surviving...

Raumlabor, pop-up hotel, Shabby Shabby Apartments, Munich Stadtraum, poetic protest on housing, increase housing prices, temporary hotel,

Apartments made out of re-used materials pop-up in protest of the housing crisis in Munich

These unique "Shabby Shabby Apartments" recently popped up in unexpected locations around Munich's shopping district...

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