Pit House in Saijo
Saijo, Hiroshima Japan  –  Makoto Tanijiri Lot size:   246 m2  (2650 sq. ft.) Building envelope:   50 m2  (540 sq. ft.) Built area:   116 m2  (1,250 sq. ft.) Year built:   2007 Photographer:    Toshiyuki Yano We just love the name that this firm has chosen for themselves – Suppose Architects! […]
A Treehouse for the Mind, Body and Spirit
Atlanta Georgia – Peter Bahouth Photography:Â Jane Field-Lewis Tucked away in the middle of an Atlanta backyard, is this three-room treehouse strung together with wooden bridges. Â Owner Peter Bahouth and builder Nick Hobbs created this eclectic space from an assortment of salvaged and recycled materials. Peter is an environmentalist whose love of nature and memories of […]
H2Ome
Belize, United States – U.S. Submarine Structures LLC Built area: 334 m2 (3,600 sq. ft.) 40 feet of crystal clear water Living under the sea is no longer a fantasy. U.S. Submarine Structures, will build on your site or as a part of one of their existing developments. The homes are around 500m2 and cost […]
The Mushroom House
New York, US – James H. Johnson Architecture Year built: 1971 When Robert and Marguerite Antell purchased a 1.2-acre vacant lot, they wanted a custom-built home that had a “natural, honest feeling” and was “informal, open and comfortable.” Upon hearing this description of their dream home, architect James H. Johnson reportedly handed the Antells a glass […]
Autarkhome – a fully sustainable houseboat
Maastricht, Netherlands  –  Autarkhome and Pietet Kromwijik Year built:   2011 Internal area:   140 m2  (1,512 sq. ft.) Cost:   From €455,000 Meet the Autarkhome – the houseboat that has full passivhaus certification and that generates 100% of it’s own power. Now add that it creates it’s own drinking and household water and […]
Living Underground
Historical evidence suggests humans have been living underground for millennia, first in caves and then later in shallow excavations roofed with sticks, mud and thatch. Just as above-ground homes vary greatly in their construction and appearance, so do underground homes. Â Types include constructed caves, culvert homes, earth berm dwellings, elevational dwellings and atrium homes. And […]
Floating House
Ontario, Canada – MOS Architects Built area: 186 sqm Year built: 2005 Photography: Florian Holzherr Completed in 2005, this home, while fixed to the shore, literally floats on pontoons in the waters of Lake Huron, Canada. The project was done as a part of a master plan for the area. The location – a lake […]
Rounded in every sense…
Anywhere you’d like it – Domespace  France More years ago than I care to remember, I bought my first CitroĂ«n car, a DS21 Goddess. The innovation was mind-boggling.  In following years I owned various French cars finding them all idiosyncratic but delightful to drive.  But over time, global conformity set in and the innovation died. […]
The Redmond Treehouse
Redmond, Washington – Steve Rondel Architect Link: Not given.
Life in a Fishbowl
Roppongi (Tokyo) Japan  –  Mejiro Studios Built area:   87.5m2  (945 sq. ft.) This is definitely a home for very confident people.  The entire focus of the home is the bathroom (or wash-room) as they are thought of in Japan.  Fully walled in glass, the bathroom sits in the centre of the home which is itself, a single […]