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 [...]

Like Rotterdam, but think that the Cactus House might just be a little too high maintenance for you with all of those plants? Looking for something a little more geometric, yet a home that still thumbs it’s nose at gravity? Then perhaps the Cube House is more your style. Designed by Piet Blom, these are [...]

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 [...]

The Whaley House was built in 1857 on land that formerly held gallows.  It is not only the most haunted house in America, it was even haunted before it was built.  The first ghost to roam the area where the rooms would be built was that of James “Yankee Jim” Robinson.  But we’ll get to [...]

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 [...]