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A small abode perched high on the eastern slopes of Tasmania’s Mount Wellington offers spectacular landscape views. Room11 Architects designed the boxy dwelling with a deliberately compact footprint as an “intensely private”...

A small abode perched high on the eastern slopes of Tasmania’s Mount Wellington offers spectacular landscape views. Room11 Architects designed the boxy dwelling with a deliberately compact footprint as an “intensely private”...

The house is located next to a preserve dominated by constant coastal winds. In order to take advantage of the winds and protect the interior from excessive sunlight, the architects oriented the face of the house toward the...

The owners commissioned the architects to design a small guest house with two rooms-one inside the house and the other for the tree in the garden. Called 'The House of a Man and a Tree,' the building is meant to be open...

The owners commissioned the architects to design a small guest house with two rooms-one inside the house and the other for the tree in the garden. Called 'The House of a Man and a Tree,' the building is meant to be open...

Picture Set on an idyllic patch of land adjacent to the historic Old Albany Post Road, Sharon Davis's 900 square foot country home weaves together exterior and interior to make a small space feel limitless...

How do you design a house that provides high levels of privacy in a densely populated neighborhood like the one in Japan's Shiga prefecture? Local firm FORM, led by architect Kouichi Kimura, created a beautiful inward-facing...

This tiny home in Hohenecken, Germany, is only three meters wide and raised on metal legs. Local studio Architekturbüro Scheder designed the house using galvanized steel posts, timber cladding and a pitched roof to create...

Sometimes, I sit in my lawn chair at night, next to the campfire, and look at the big blue bus in my campsite spot -- or in the parking lot of a Walmart -- or wherever we may be at the moment, and I think: “Wow...

According to The Des Moines Register, Andrews and Van Kooten were inspired to build a tiny house for their senior school project after a class trip to Costa Rica, where they were housed in small, solar-powered dwellings...

This "rustic cabin with a modern aesthetic" is the perfect combination of tiny house living and architectural excellence. Designed to everything you need and everything in its place, the small Wedge cabin boasts a bedroom,...

This "rustic cabin with a modern aesthetic" is the perfect combination of tiny house living and architectural excellence. Designed to everything you need and everything in its place, the small Wedge cabin boasts a bedroom,...

Located in Nara, Nara Prefecture this small Japanese home was designed for a young family. The total site area is 107 sq m (1,150 sq ft), but the total living space is only 64 sq m (688 sq ft), making for a small and compact...

The traditional dream of a large and spacious home may be becoming a thing of the past. Smaller homes are rising in popularity as more and more people begin to make the most of the benefits that having a small home can bring. In...

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