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On the left, wood cabinets in kitchen of a dome home. On the right, wood frame of a dome home.

EconOdome offers versatile, DIY dome home kits

Illinois-based designer and builder Wil Fidroeff has been helping people build their own dome homes for the past...

rendering of tall narrow wood cabins with rooftop pools in a misty forest

Flexible prefab cabin wins Volume Zero’s 2020 Tiny House competition

Mumbai-based architecture competition platform Volume Zero has announced the winners of the 2020 Tiny House Architecture...

a living room with a coffee table, leather armchair and desk table with wood chair.

HoekHome gives furniture a sustainable makeover

Putting together furniture has been rich sitcom fodder for years. People often associate this task with frustration,...

plywood cube building on the ground floor of a larger brick building

These modular plywood “sanctuaries” are completely customizable

As more and more people around the world adjust to remote employment and socially distanced hobbies, Equals Architecture...

Bed near suspended fireplace

Mountain Refuge is a modular tiny home made from plywood

Inspired by the human need to connect with nature, history and origin, the Mountain Refuge in Milan, Italy is a...

large wood building with square windows in a checkerboard pattern

Wedge-shaped Sideyard champions CLT construction

When Portland, Oregon reconfigured the roadways in the Central Eastside community, a 9,000-square-foot berm space...

a green outdoor space with a wooden, box-like structure set up

O’DonnellBrown designs affordable, modular outdoor classroom

In a bid to support creative and independent learning in the outdoors, Glasgow-based architectural practice O’DonnellBrown has...

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Contemporary Camp O communes with nature in the Catskills

Humble natural materials and modern sensibilities combine in Camp O, a light-filled house-studio nestled in the...

an iceberg-like structure on a lake surrounded by green trees

Floating ICEBERG creatively confronts global warming

In summer 2019, a surprising sight popped up on a New Hampshire lake — ICEBERG, a floating, iceberg-shaped pavilion...

round, pod-like shelter glowing at night

Glowing, celestial-inspired shelter communes with nature in Denmark

The Munkeruphus Art Museum on the coast of Denmark has recently gained a striking new addition — the Observatory,...

concrete home with all-glass facade

Beautiful family home in Western Australia boasts a bevy of passive design features

While it may not exactly be the Little House on the Prairie, Osmington-based Archterra Architects certainly made...

timber cabin covered in snow and lifted on stilts

Kengo Kuma suspends a cocoon-like timber dwelling for minimal site impact

Prolific Japanese architecture firm Kengo Kuma and Associates recently worked its magic in the tiny Swiss village...

children's emergency shelter made from reclaimed materials surrounded by greenery

Locally crafted children’s learning center doubles as an emergency shelter in the Philippines

Scandinavian design studio Native Narrative is raising the bar for after-school facilities in the rural Philippines...

living room with exposed brick wall and tan sectional sofa

A Victorian cottage gets a stylish and sustainable makeover

In one of its latest eco-conscious retrofits, Australian architecture firm Green Sheep Collective has given a single-fronted...

white mesh cubes lit up at night

Recyclable art pavilion made of mesh pops up in Kolkata

West Bengal’s biggest annual festival recently saw the addition of a strikingly contemporary pavilion that is...

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