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.”

I must say, that doesn’t look entirely safe. With the walls not being there on one side of the house. The stairs also look extra painful to fall down, but at least you get to land on soft…ice. If this house really could be built, who would want to live in it? Is that dark [...]

Yes, this technically isn’t an Earthship, nor does anyone claim it to be. However, if you recall last week’s post that actually was an Earthship, you might recall how I said that such a house should look like it was slowly creeping over the world be it on land, sea, or in this case, the [...]

Drivers in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston TX had a surprise in store with the Inversion Tunnel House, a temporary artwork project which turned two homes scheduled for demolition into a warped work of art with a an apparent vortex through the property! Art League artists, Havel and Ruck, converted the dwellings into an apparent [...]

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 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 [...]

No, you didn’t read the title wrong.  330 square feet hasn’t stopped Hong Kong architect Gary Chang from expanding his tiny apartment into a shocking 24-room space.  How is that possible?  Are the individual rooms less than 14 square feet each?  The strange answer is…sort of. Gary decided to make the most of his space [...]