Once a Log Cabin
Flims, GraubĂĽnden, Switzerland – Nickisch Sano Walder Architects Photography: Ralph Feiner, Gaudenz Danuser Floor Area: 40 sqm Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox.
Ufogel – an Austrian UFO
Nussdorf, Austria – Peter Jungmann Floor Space: 45 sqm You can find this cabin in the East Tyrolian village of Nussdorf. Perched on a grassy slope, overlooking the village and the mountains beyond, it’s designed as vacation accommodation for four people. Built entirely from local larch – with the exception of the steel ‘feet’, the cabin is […]
Six Sides and an Eye
Ida-Viru County, Estonia – Jaanus Orgusaar Floor Area: 25 sqm Year: 2010 Photography: Jaanus Orgusaar and Terje Ugandi Click on any image to start lightbox display. Use your Esc key to close the lightbox.
Cow eats house!
Costa da Morte, Spain – AntĂłn GarcĂa- Abril Date of Project: August 2006 End of Construction: February 2010 Built Area: 25 m² Photography: Roland Halbe This cabin must rank as one of the most innovative, yet easiest and cheapest to build, that we’ve ever seen. In fact, a cow named Paulina did most of the work! Named […]
Brazilian Box Delivery
MaquinĂ©, RS, Brazil – MAPA Architects Year:   2013 Area:   27 sqm Photography:   Leonardo Finotti This is another example of the efficiencies of modular prefabrication. In this instance, the result is a ‘instant’ cabin in a relatively isolated location in Brazil. The modules were fully factory finished before being delivered and placed on […]
Bay Lake Cabin
Bay Lake, Minnesota – Albertsson Hansen Architecture, Ltd Year built:  1930’s Year renovated:   2013 Photography:  Scott Amundson It’s always a tough decision – demolish or rebuild. The plain truth is that it costs around twice the cost per square foot to renovate than it does to do a new build. But there […]
Big Sky Family Retreat
Montana  USA  –  Swaback partners Year built:   2012 If you’ve been dreaming of a cabin and wide open spaces, this may be as good as it gets. Compact but elegant, the high ceilings and sleeping loft help to create a feeling of space as big as the land on which it sits. The ‘lean-to’ kitchen […]
STF Kolarbyn/Eco-lodge
Skinnskatteberg, Sweden – STF Kolarbyn/Eco-lodge Re-established in the Winter:  1996 Photography:  Skogens Konung and Claudia Deglau The word “hotel” doesn’t have to mean lots of fixed glass, endless corridors and air-conditioning. If you want to escape all of those trappings and the city, Sweden’s most primitive hotel will appeal. The “rooms” were built by locals using timber, […]
The C3 Cabin
Washington, USA – Vandeventer + Carlander Architects Built Area:   352 sq. ft + loft area of 128 sq ft  (33 m2 + 12 m2) Photography: Steve Keating Down a long, winding driveway, curtained by dense evergreens lies the site for this cabin. Set on a high, waterfront bluff with great views across the Saratoga Passage to […]
Quietude
Vancouver, Canada – Henry Yorke Mann – Architect Built area:   300 sq. ft + 40 sq. ft. porch and 100 sq. ft. basement  (28 m2 + 3.7 m2 + 9.25 m2) Year built:   1999 Builder:   Ken Silbernagel Photographer:   Stuart Bish Sometimes we come across an architect who ‘really does get it’ […]