
Solar-powered Cloverdale house is made of reclaimed wood from a 1970s kit home
This solar-powered home in Cloverdale, California was built using reclaimed wood from an existing 1970s kit log...

Naturally cooled Otunba Offices has a small footprint but a large social impact
This low-cost sustainable office building in Lagos, Nigeria, can be easily and affordably replicated anywhere in...

Stunning mountain passive house uses burnt cedar cladding
Tucked into the sloping mountainside near historic Park City, Utah sits a modern, passive solar dream home marked...

Tidy Japanese home mimics the greenhouse effect to keep warm
The house is located in the city of Sapporo, capital of Japan's Hokkaido island. It comprises two distinct spaces-Small...

UN Studio's Taiwan Taoyuan Airport imagines the air travel terminal of the future
Together with Bio-Architecture Formosana from Taipei, April Yang Design Studio from Ohio, and a multidisciplinary...

Terraced Rienzi House in urban Singapore is so green it feels like the country
Although difficult to imagine, considering the constraints of the small site, the house features a vast open space...

Tiny Tsubomi House is a Multi-Level Residence that Blooms Atop a Cookie Shop
The Tsubomi House is focused around its central staircase, which is made of concrete on the lower floors and folded...

Ultra-Thin Murray Hill Townhouse is Only 11 Feet Wide
The ultra-thin townhome in Murray Hill is actually one of a pair of brownstones at 115 East 35th Street. The well...

Solar-Powered Modular N2X035 Home Peers Overs the Ocean in Portugal
Completed earlier in 2012, the 156 square meter home was designed to fill in some ruins on the elevated site. The...

Gorgeous Prefab Westcliff Pavilion Home Boasts a Floating Stone Wall in South Africa
By using steel instead of heavy masonry or concrete, GASS was able to achieve a variety of aims: first, the black...

Earth-Covered Subterranean River Sauna Heats up a Sizzling View in Norway
The subterranean sauna has a mild industrial feel to it thanks to the raw concrete and rusted metal wall, combined...

Bold Elliptical Windows Bubble With Daylight at the Topazz Hotel in Vienna
A modern insert with stoic neighbors, the Topazz hotel is nonetheless respectful of its surroundings. Given the...

STICKS: Miniature Tipi-Shaped Kindergartens for Urban Parks in Paris
Each Stick "nursery," as Djuric Tardio calls them, will feature the latest in sustainable bioclimatic technologies...

Beautiful House Bernheimbeuk is Wrapped Around a Single Tree in Belgium
With a tiny footprint of only 99 square meters, House Bernheimbeuk is a three-story residential building linked...

Tile-Clad Roslyn Street Bar in Sydney Has an Exotic Rooftop Garden
The Roslyn Street bar seems a lot taller than it is because of the unique 200 square meter site on which it was...