In 1979, Michael Kahn and Leda Livant moved to a rural three-acre plot of land in Cornville, Arizona. Allowed to stay on the property rent-free, Kahn and Livant started building what would become Eliphante immediately, living in an 8′ x 10′ wooden shack that Michael had thrown up to keep them safe during the winter. [...]
Home designers may focus on the setting for their designs but the ideal for ecologically sound development is simply minimizing or completely negating the impact of development. Making the house “disappear” by blending the development into the surrounding landscape is one design development finding a degree of credibility after a shaky start. Painting existing development [...]
The World’s Tallest Log Cabin – The Wooden Skyscraper photo by the constant skeptic He is Nikolai Sutyagin. He is a man who has seen it all. Well, if not “all”, he’s seen quite a lot. He was born and raised in a lowly communal flat in Arkhangelsk, Russia. That’s in the northern part of [...]
photo by by Dizzy Atmosphere Smith Tower was built in 1914, and named after the guy from Smith Corona - you know, typewriters and guns? His name was Lyman Cornelius Smith and he set out to build the tallest building in Seattle. That sort of went out the window when they built the Space Needle, [...]
Dar Al-Hajar is open to the public now as a sort of museum, though the Yemen travel website says that its “only jewel is the building itself.”
by Lynn. Bart Prince is no ordinary architect. He “builds from the inside out”, creating homes that feel good to the homeowner, and feel good to the land they are on. He uses organic styles and interesting lot arrangement to make the most of the natural light and resources offered by a particular lot. He [...]
It is a piece of social commentary art that speaks out against injustice and anti-humanitarianism. It is a tourist attraction. It is the labor of love conceived by a visionary Polish businessman and entrepreneur. It is also an upside down house. The aforementioned Polish businessman, Daniel Czapiewski, owns a company that builds wooden houses [...]
Sarah died in 1922, leaving an unfinished, sprawling mansion with 13 bathrooms, 40 bedrooms, 2 ballrooms, and a few quirks. Sarah was obsessed with the number 13, so all the windows had 13 panes, and the number 13 carries through many of the details of the house.
The “house” part of the house (meaning the only part that even remotely resembles at house) shows some of that old-world French-influenced something-or-another, but all in all it is as if the house was born out of a warped environmental fever dream.
The term “earthship” is a bit of an overstatement. The name connotes an earthen vessel which slowly creeps over the sea or air, perhaps carrying with it a crew representing earth’s only hope. The reality, while cool, is not nearly that cool. The earthships of reality are made by Earthship Biotecture of Taos, New Mexico [...]