The Invisible Dome Home

The Invisible Dome Home

Underground living – Texas style – Monolithic Dome Structures Italy, Texas USA Dig a hole 66 metres x 23 metres x 10 metres deep (200’x75’x30′), blow up your shell, start pumping concrete and insulation, fill it back up again and you have your typical underground dome home! Visitors to Glenn Young’s Monolithic Dome home often […]

Dick Clark’s Flintstone House

Dick Clark Flinstone House

Malibu California USA  –  Architect unknown Emmys, Grammys, induction into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 7,500 hours of television time! An amazing legacy that all added up to make Dick Clark one of the richest men in Hollywood, with interests in a wide range of […]

18.36.54 House

Rural Connecticut  USA  – Daniel Libeskind Built area:     185 m2  (2,000 sq. ft.) Year:     2010 Let’s not pretend here… we’re fairly certain that Daniel Libeskind’s starting fee is more than most of us will spend on our whole house.  In the past 15 years, he’s moved from relative obscurity as an academic, […]

The Sliding House

The Sliding Russell House

Suffolk, UK – Ross Russell and Sally Morris Consulting architect: Alex de Rijke This home is unquestionably, one of the most innovative and demanding residential projects ever undertaken.  Concept to practical completion was a five year event.  Along the way, the home gained international recognition and many well deserved awards. What you see here is just a […]

The Santambrogio Glasshouses

The Santambrogio Glasshouses

Milan, Italy – Santambrogio Milano Photography: Santambrogio Architects Imagine living in a home made entirely of glass – right down to the bed!  The first four images are of a real display building.  It was done to showcase the firms design capability.  The second group of four images are purely conceptual. Whilst it’s unlikely anyone would […]

Ktima House

Antiparos, Greece – Camilo Rebelo + Susana Martins Project Year :     2014 Developed Area :     950 Sq M Photographs :     Claudio Reis Ktima House stands on a private and quiet part of the island of Antiparos, Greece. When viewed from a distance, the structure is a jagged vision in white with its […]

Copper House

Belmont, MA, USA – Charles Rose Architects Project Year :     2004 Photographs :     John Edward Linden Photography   A vinyl-clad Colonial structure used to sit at the site where the Copper House currently stands. After a major addition and renovation project, the “house within a house” caught the attention of the architectural world because […]

Some like it hot (pink)…

Gyeongsangnam-do,  South Korea  –  Moon Hoon Architects Built Area:     229.85 m2 (2,485 sq ft) Year Built:     2016 Photography:     Facestudio I have two young granddaughters who are pink crazy. They don’t care what it is, if it’s pink, they want it. Given the preponderance of pink in young girls’ bedrooms, they […]

The Steel House – a labour of love…

Lubbock, Texas – Robert Bruno Robert Bruno describes himself as an architectural sculptor and artist. The home you see here was conceptualised in the early 1970’s with construction starting in 1974. Thirty something years later the home continues to take shape. The home contains more than 110 tons of steel – all of it cut, […]