A House Not Built for Human Beings An architect-turned-falconer considers animals and nature when designing his own home.
The New Zealand House Built on a Sled This charming two-story beach house is simple, functional, and can be towed to any beach or barge
A Striking Modern House Built In A Pastoral Landscape Contemporary and vernacular combine with innovative architectural solutions in the design of this house located at the edge of...
Affordable Modern House Built with Sheer Determination With a very limited budget and no construction experience, Lucky and Kim Diaz overhauled a wreck of a house into a sweet,...
This Vermont Passive House Is Built From the Forest That Surrounds It Architect Robert Swinburne deploys a collaborative building approach and hyperlocal materials to craft a home that celebrates the...
Be Inspired by This Tiny House Designed and Built by a Single Mom A Bay Area single mom priced out of the rental market takes matters into her own hands and constructs a tiny home for herself and...
A Concrete Micro-House in Japan Works All the Angles Built with specially-formulated concrete made of volcanic ash, this micro-house in Tokyo maximizes space through vertical...
A Concrete Tiny House in Tokyo Opens to the Sky—and the Street In a city known for its density and small residences, this tiny home employs skylights and a large glass door to connect with its...
This Monolithic Concrete House Appears to Float Among the Trees Located outside of Buenos Aires, the house rises above the forest floor on a single concrete pedestal.
A Concrete Beach House in Mexico Opens a Portal to Epic Surfing Homeowner and surfer Christopher Hansen envisions a secluded oceanfront retreat that lets him keep an eye on the waves.
This Beach House in Mexico Frames the Landscape With an Orderly Concrete Grid On a rustic strip of coastline near Puerto Escondido, a couple give their designers permission to do less.
Built Like a Concrete House Dorit Mizrahi and Oliviero Godi, working in Bergamo, Italy, as the firm Exposure Architects, have designed a house using...
This Concrete-and-Glass House in Paraguay Doesn’t Believe in Walls With partitions that can be endlessly rearranged, the Horizon House by BAUEN Architects goes up against the notion that a home...
A Concrete Vacation House Keeps Life Simple in Coastal Argentina Luciano Kruk perforates a concrete volume with glass walls to fashion a simple yet elegant vacation home in the province of...
A Carbon-Neutral Concrete House Is an Exemplary Infill in Western Australia Australian firm Whispering Smith uses commercial materials in a limited footprint for a wabi-sabi effect.
A Timber-and-Concrete Summer House in Iceland Boasts Breathtaking Views Set on a ridge overlooking a deep ravine, this summer home in Southern Iceland is surrounded by awe-inspiring scenery.
A Pink Concrete House in Argentina Offers “a Window to the World” Alarcia Ferrer Arquitectos designs a modernist oasis on the slopes overlooking the Calamuchita Valley.
10 Buildings We Love by Piers Taylor Known for his stripped-back approach to home design, RIBA award-winning architect Piers Taylor focuses more on light and space...
Budget Breakdown: A Color-Changing House in Dallas Is Built for $584K LED strips embedded in a polycarbonate wall allow one couple to change the mood of their new home.
How Tree House Master Pete Nelson Built an Empire in the Woods Now that the TV series “Treehouse Masters” is wrapped, we catch up with builder Pete Nelson to hear the story behind his arboreal...
Robots Built This Futuristic House That Generates More Energy Than it Needs The DFAB House is the world’s first home designed, planned, and built with mainly digital processes—and it's entirely powered by...
A Concrete House Is Softened by an Airy Internal Courtyard, Complete With an Olive Grove For an architect’s new build in Melbourne, eco-conscious design techniques help create a minimal-but-warm home.
After a Complete Renovation, This Formerly Concrete House Is Up for Grabs for $500K Located just outside of Orlando, the fully renovated cottage also offers European Oak flooring and cedar-clad ceilings.
A Modern Concrete Home in Peru Behind a traditional colonial in Lima, an angular house attuned to its site takes shape.
A Concrete Hideaway in the Italian Countryside An Italian architecture studio offers an updated take on the vacation cabin.
Budget Breakdown: This Ethereal Glass House in the Brazilian Forest Was Built for $187K Built for a scholar, Casa Biblioteca is a sanctuary for reading, stargazing, and enjoying a cigar or two.
Modern Concrete Getaway in Paradise You might think a Brutalist-style concrete structure would be out of place in a lush, beach-resort island like Vieques.
Tadao Ando’s Curved Concrete Ito House Asks $7M in Tokyo The three-family property by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect features outdoor courtyards protected by the home’s arcing...
A Designer Swaps His 1950s House for a Bright and Airy Home Built Around a Pool This East Austin home has a flowing, open plan that makes entertaining a breeze.
A Maine Farmhouse Built With Salvaged Materials Caleb Johnson Studio combined materials recovered from a vintage farmstead, as well as a midcentury modern teardown, to create...
A Sustainably Built Home in Rural Ontario For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land.
This Minimal Japanese Getaway Was Built for Surfing Splashes of chartreuse enliven N-Holiday House, a seaside getaway by Sohei Nakanishi Design.
The House of a Lifetime At age 34, Philip M. Isaacson commissioned architect F. Frederick Bruck to design a home for him and his wife. That was 1959.
House In Morillos A modern house built in the middle of a breathtaking natural landscape.
Opened House A few years after moving into their stocky, cavelike 1970s bi-level 20 miles southeast of Milwaukee, JJ and Eric Edstrom decided...
Scrap House "Repurpose, refurbish, recycle" was the guiding principle for a metals broker in Ontario who harnessed his passion for–and...