Ship Shape

It’s not the Fantasy Island of TV, but Amsterdam’s Steigereiland is charmed by the whalelike structure floating in Pieter Weijnen’s fanciful Blue House....

London Cooling

Though its name might sound more Disney than design, the windcatcher featured in architectural firm Sheppard Robson's Lighthouse has made it a beacon of British sustainable design....

Twice as Nice

Sydney architect and homeowner David Langston-Jones describes how a mix of space-saving tricks and clear illusions make his duplex feel twice its size....

Straw Tech

We huffed and puffed, but we couldn't blow off the compressed straw bale panels of the supersustainable Swiss Strohhaus....

All Clad

Wood is good to photographer Ed Reeve, whose David Adjaye-designed house in North London has us wondering if his neighborhood won't be rechristened Knotty Hill....

Heart of the Country

Anna and John Carver did what most of us only talk about–they never came back from vacation. The cheeky Brits ditched their London digs and took up permanent residence in their refurbished getaway house in rural Peasmarsh, England....

Eggo Centric

Prague rockin' architectural firm A69 cement their reputation with the concrete-roofed, courtyard-hatching EggO House....

Kingston Brio

The devil is in the details of the scenery-chewing Tasmanian house that architects room11 designed in Kingston....

Katz's Cradle

After designing a three-unit project north of Johannesburg, South Africa, architect Gregory Katz traded fees for keys, picked door number two, and found himself a winner....

Slanted and Enchanted

Londoner Marcus Lee turned a narrow lot next to a pickle works into a high-flying wood retreat with a garden out back and plenty of soaring space upstairs....

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