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- Sigurd Larsen adds the ultimate grown up playhouse to Berlin’s Hotel Michelberger Mon, 8 Feb 16, 5:00pmThe compact ground level of each tiny wooden house features a snug bedroom, sauna, toilet and kitchen. A staircase leads up to a to the second bedroom and a large hammock overlooks the rest of the room or garden space. "With...
- Hemso restaurant: a portal made of natural materials alongside a UNESCO heritage site in Sweden Wed, 23 Dec 15, 5:00pmThe restaurant's pared back style is inspired by Cold War era design and modern stealth aircrafts. The main volume is hidden within the sparsely forested hillside and features tilted angled roofs. The large glass surfaces...
- Chiangmai Life Construction creates homes using rammed earth, bamboo and recycled wood Fri, 12 Jun 15, 5:30amChiangmai Life Construction in northern Thailand designs and builds modern, organic architecture using mainly earth and bamboo, but also concrete for foundations, recycled hardwood, and whatever else works...
- SilverWoodHouse is an organic remodel that reflects the surrounding seaside Tue, 3 Mar 15, 6:00amArchitect Ernesto Pereira was tasked to create a home that was a piece of art out of an existing structure that was long past its prime. The result was the SilverWoodHouse, a stunning remodeled home that marries shelter...
- North America’s Tallest Wood Building Opens in British Columbia Sat, 8 Nov 14, 9:29amThe project officially opened to the world on October 31, 2014, on budget and on time, showing that wood construction can serve as a functional and reliable option for sustainable building...
- World’s Tallest Wood Building Opens in British Columbia Sat, 8 Nov 14, 4:00amThe project officially opened to the world on October 31, 2014, on budget and on time, showing that wood construction can serve as a functional and reliable option for sustainable building...
- World’s Tallest Contemporary All-Wood Structure Completed in British Columbia Fri, 7 Nov 14, 10:00pmThe project officially opened to the world on October 31, 2014, on budget and on time, showing that wood construction can serve as a functional and reliable option for sustainable building...
- Berlin Baumraum Treehouse Lets You Swap Your City Apartment For a Room Among the Leaves Thu, 31 Jul 14, 3:00pmIn a tranquil woodland building plot next to Berlin’s popular Krumme Lanke Lake, these urban treehouses provide everything you need for a comfortable retreat within a compact 28m2 structure, 4m up within the forest canopy...
- Green-Roofed Dragon Head Pavilion Pops Up at Dresden’s OSTRALE Art Show Mon, 25 Nov 13, 5:00pmOSTRALE is a popular contemporary art event hosted at the Slaughterhouse made famous by Kurt Vonnegut's wartime fiction Slaughterhouse-Five. In 2013 Andrea Hilger of OSTRALE and Daniele De Grande of Abitalbero came up with...
- ESLICE Prefab Homes Inspired by Loaves of Bread Sat, 11 Dec 10, 7:00amRead the rest of ESLICE Prefab Homes Inspired by Loaves of Breadhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink |...
- Finland’s Luukku House Wins Architecture Prize at Solar Decathlon! Fri, 25 Jun 10, 3:15amThe first place winner of the architecture portion of the European Solar Decathlon has just been announced, and the prize goes to… Team Finland’s beautiful wood-clad Luukku House! The Luukku House (the term refers...