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London Yard: 7 Grassless Gardens for Modern Urban Homes

London Yard: 7 Grassless Gardens for Modern Urban Homes

With large American-style suburban front and back yards, it is easy to sow some grass seeds and assume the responsibility of simply mowing it into shape later. Smaller urban lots in big cities (British or otherwise) pose another set of challenges entirely.

Philip Nixon relies on Modernist, C [Read More…]

Solo Shelter Showcase: New Small-Space Living Exhibition

Solo Shelter Showcase: New Small-Space Living Exhibition

Regular readers may remember that Dornob helped sponsor a certain strange Camper Kart project, and has featured a Camper Bike in the past – well, artist Kevin Cyr is back with a brand new exhibit in San Francisco titled Home In The Weeds at 941 Geary.

He describes this particular series as “ [Read More…]

Korora House by Daniel Marshall Architects

Korora House by Daniel Marshall Architects

Korora House by Daniel Marshall Architects:

“A ridge stretching between the Hauraki Gulf and the pastoral landscape of Waiheke Island provided a stunning, and challenging, context in which to design a home.

Our approach was to work within the contour of the [Read More…]

Sustainable House Ocho by Feldman Architecture

Sustainable House Ocho by Feldman Architecture

A beautiful eco house building, called House Ocho was designed by Feldman Architectureand was built in Carmel, California in 2004 by Groza Construction. This 2,900 sq ftsustainable house is located in an area with seismic activity. The environment is still kept to be natural with vegetations and the [Read More…]

Urban Housing in Nieuw Leyden by 24H Architects

Urban Housing in Nieuw Leyden by 24H Architects

24H Architects have designed some houses in Nieuw Leyden, which is in the north of the city of Leiden, in The Netherlands.

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Within the urban plan of Nieuw Leyden, 24H Architecture design two ecological houses. The building block consists of 18 houses, designed by different architects. There [Read More…]

Edcouch-Elsa ISD Fine Arts Center

Edcouch-Elsa ISD Fine Arts Center

This building evolved from significant public conversations with students, parents, teachers and community activists, working with historians, curators, folklorists, artists and architects to envision a community gathering place.

As the first important civic building funded in over thirty years [Read More…]

Tron-esque Chaparral Electric Warehouse

Tron-esque Chaparral Electric Warehouse

Are warehouses supposed to look this cool? Are warehouses in Albuquerque, New Mexico supposed to look this cool? (No offense, Albuquerque). We’re not sure how we’re only now seeing this sweet structure by Albuquerque firm Mullen Heller Architecture that was completed in 2008, but we’re sure glad [Read More…]

World’s Greatest Gypsum Cave In Russia

World’s Greatest Gypsum Cave In Russia

Mystic caves continues to impress us all, but there are just some few of us that dares to go experience them. We have earlier represented you amazing caves, like the amazing crystal cave under the Mexico Desert or the beautiful underwater caves in Bahamas Blue Holes. But this one is amazing as well, [Read More…]

Villa Design of HC by Saunders Architecture

Villa Design of HC by Saunders Architecture

Villa Design of HC by Saunders Architecture

Villa Hc located in one of the most beautiful sites in Bergen. Initially, in the 1940s, this building is an old house, the reason for the renovations because the house was too small for the needs of these owners. This project was designed by Saunders [Read More…]

House Design of Ultra Komb Created by Karim Rashid

House Design of Ultra Komb Created by Karim Rashid

House Design of Ultra Komb Created by Karim Rashid

This is an idea of Karim Rashid. Komb house is located in Cairo, the parallels of marching in an array of interests focus on the design of outside-the box. He takes a general color theme to bring brightness and cheer to the entire interior atmo [Read More…]

The Rainbow House, London

The Rainbow House, London

From the architect, Ab Rogers Design:

“The Rainbow House is a magical oasis on a busy road filed with people and noise. When you step through its front door, you enter a parallel universe of fun, colour, movement and sensuality, leaving the ordinary world far behind.

The house is a living art [Read More…]