Old bus converted into a majestic and cozy home

Majestic Converted Bus

Hay-on-Wye, Wales Can you imagine spending a holiday literally on a bus, in the countryside and enjoying a uniquely relaxing ride? Well, you can in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, where a converted bus, the Majestic, has been remodeled into a little guest house. Now we have posted numerous converted bus projects, with most of them used as […]

Tokyo Tight

Tokyo, Japan  –  Unemori Architects Site Area:     34.27 m2  (370 sq. ft.) Building Envelope:    17.47 m2  (188 sq. ft.) Built Area:     67.34 m2  (727 sq. ft.) Photography: Unemori Architects Japan truly is the land of innovation when it comes to housing. Its cities are crowded, land is limited and if […]

Joshua Tree – Hangar Design Group

Joshua Tree

Anywhere  –  Hangar Design Group We’re used to the concept of ‘mobile homes’ and pre-fabrication.  In fact, the two are synonymous.  The Joshua Tree is a new take on the concept, delivering a very high quality product that is claimed to be genuinely capable of mobility.  Manufactured by Agora Prefab, the home is built with overlapping zinc titanium tiles […]

Tiny Beach House on Rails

Coromandel Peninsula New Zealand  –  Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects Year Built:    2011 Photography:   Jackie Meiring Update:  Best Exterior Innovation at the 2012 NZ Timber Design Awards. This beach front property is in a coastal erosion zone. Building approval is withheld unless the home is relocatable. The owners, architects and builders of this home took […]

COTH… Cottage on the Hill

Cottage on the hill...

Michigan  USA – Zinta Aistars Lot size:     10 acres (2 hectares) Built area:   200 sq. ft. (18.5 m2) Year built:   Unknown Renovated:  2012/13 Standing on a hill in the woods of south-west Michigan is a whimsical cottage named COTH by its writer owner, Zinta Aistars.  Although the 10 acre property has […]

Indy Island

Indy Island

Indianapolis, New York – Andrea Zittel Photography: Jessica Dunn and Michael Runge Can’t afford an island? Make one! This tiny, inhabitable island was created by artist Andrea Zittel. Designed as an installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, it’s accessible only by rowboat. The igloo-like floating island is 20 foot in diameter and is made of […]

Chicken Point Cabin

Northern Idaho  USA – Olson Kundig Architects Photography:      Benjamin Benschneider Built:     2002 We find something very appealing about this cabin.  One the one hand, it offers all the comforts of home.  On the other, it ‘feels’ like a cabin should – a refuge a hundred kilometres from our work-a-day lives.  It somehow blends a […]

A French Resurrection

London, England – Blee Halligan Architects Photography: Sarah Blee In 1981, Londoners Anthony and Gillian Blee purchased the ultimate fixer-upper. The property in southwestern France was idyllic, but its old mill, built in 1822, and three flanking outbuildings had fallen into terrible disrepair. “We really wanted to capture the ruinous quality of this old building […]

Urban Shelter

A 21m2 urban shelter by MYCC Spain

Madrid, Spain – MYCC Built area: 21.0 sqm Year built: 2012 Photography: Elena Almagro From the architect. This singular urban shelter is just twenty square meters and nevertheless is one hundred cubic meters of volume. In such an enclosed space should a single person live and work. He will use his creativity and dynamism to […]

The Blob is coming…

Totally Mobile – dmvA Architecten Belgium Built Area:       20 m2  (216 sq ft) Project Year:    2009 Photography:  Frederik Vercruysse The Challenge: The client, the principal of Xfactor Agencies, wanted a home office extension designed and built.  The local planning authority refused consent despite various submissions covering a range of options. The Solution: […]