The Hundertwasserhaus (of Hundertwasserhaus) has become a cultural landmark not just in Vienna where it is located, but for the entire country of Austria.  This is despite the property only being built in the early 1980’s.  The building was the brainchild of academic architects, Professor Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan who conceived a property made [...]

The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo is the world’s first capsule-centered piece of architecture built for actual use. This is probably not a new concept to you, but I think it’s rare that when you can actually see the room for yourself. To me, it looks like a room aboard a spaceship. Just imagine, instead [...]

This majestic piece of real estate near Lexington, Kentucky was originally built to be a single-family home. Construction began in 1969 by one Rex Martin and his wife Caroline Bogaert Martin.  They had traveled a bit in Europe and were stunned by the architecture, so they decided to try to recreate it on some prime [...]

Situated in New Rochelle, New York, this house looks equal parts UFO and Ewok village. The series of pods are connected by walkways, and each pod rests a top a single central stalk. According to various architectural sources, the inspiration for this house comes not from up in the stars, but rather at our feet. [...]

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was pretty successful when it came out in 1986.  Since then, the movie has become a classic.  Even though Matthew Broderick’s title character was, well, the star, his movie house wasn’t exactly memorable.  Sure, that thing he rigged up to make it look like he was in bed asleep was pretty [...]

The Ontario College of Art and Design is Canada’s “university of the imagination” and it’s not hard to see why – the building itself defies the imagination – stacked atop colorful pixie-stick like pillars this lego-like structure seems to teeter above the roofline (it looks like a colorful version of those walking things in Star [...]

We posted a pic of this before, but here you have a guest post on the Toilet House! What happens when you combine an architect, activism, and a latrine? Don’t be alarmed. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you; that is a toilet-shaped house and it’s real. Sim Jae-Duck, an architect from Seoul, Korea, is the mastermind [...]

What are the things that you can’t do in a city?  You can’t raise livestock (at least, not very easily), you can’t live on an acre or more of land (unless you’re way loaded), and you can’t really grow food.  At least not a lot of it – enough to feed an entire population.  What [...]

How do you make an ancient structure modern and livable?  Katsuhiro Miyamoto and Associates figured it out with the Hankai House in Akashi City.  The original structure has many old pieces – roof parts and walls that date back to anywhere between 90 and 300 years ago. The original structure was a wooden gate house [...]

The Swedish are so cool.  Seriously.  I think Sweden is an awesome place.  Now they’ve created a hotel that is unlike any other – the rooms are mirrored cubes that sit high up in the trees.  The mirrors make the cubes practically invisible from the outside, so that the natural setting is not disturbed by [...]