Villa NM by UNstudio
Villa NM is a project designed by Unstudio. A box-like volume bifurcates into two separate volumes; one seamlessly following the northern slope; the other lifted above the hill creating a covered parking space and generating a split-level internal organization. From inside the huge window strips from floor to ceiling allow a fluid continuity between interior and landscape. From the exterior the reflective glass seams to become one with its surroundings. This house offers from the inside a great vista of the landscape all around the house.
The Wind Shaped Pavillion by Michael Jantsen
Michael Jantsen has designed this Wind Shaped Pavillion. The idea is that parts of the lightweight fabric structure would move and the wind would slowly and randomly rotate each of the six segments around a central support frame, which means that the pavillion’s shape would be ever-changing, and the electricity generated would light the structure at night. It’s a new kind of living architecture, always in movement and which is changing of perspective.
Transparent Canoe-Kayak by Hammacher Schlemmer
Paddling a transparent kayak is unlike anything you’ve ever imagined. You will discover the sea in a way that you’ve never imagined before. The Transparent Canoe-Kayak is made with a transparent polymer that allows you to admire the aquatic wildlife.
02 Sustainability Treehouse
Dustin Fieder has designed this fabulous tree house inspired from the Japanese paper lantern. The geodesic structure offers superior weight and space efficiency. It is built with 100% sustainable materials, does not restrict or harm the tree in any way. The tree house design supports sustainable ideas through its form and function allowing one to experience nature as the birds do in an upper canopy tree haven.
Quik House by Adam Kalkin
The Quick House is three bedrooms and two bathrooms built in 2,000 square foot plan. This prefab is designed by Adam Kalkin and inspired from shipping containers. The basic kit comes with five modified containers witch you can modify such as a stainless steel kitchen with appliance and fireplace, mahogany door package, custom designed carpets…
At $76,000 it’s one of the cheapest and quickest prefab houses currently on the market.
Burj Al Arab Hotel
The Burj Al Arab is a luxury hotel shaped like a billowing spinnaker sail in Dubai. At 1,053 feet, it is the tallest building used exclusively as a hotel. It stands in the sea on an artificial island connected to the mainland by a bridge. At night, it offers an unforgettable sight surrounded by choreographed color sculpture of water and fire.
Living Homes, the Green Prefab
Living Homes products are created by world-class architects to achieve at least a LEED for Home silver accreditation. The home features non toxic materials and energy systems, including the solar and radian heating, reclaimed FSC certified wood, steel framing, an underground cistern, photovoltaic and other top-notch ecological systems.
Currently Living Homes are available in custom configurations that range in size from 2,000 square feet and priced from $250-350 by square foot.
Porous Drape by Mitsuru Hamada
Mitsuru Hamada, a Japanese architect, won the 2006 Steedman Fellowship with his design of an environmental observatory. The biennial competition, sponsored by the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, which are both divisions of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, is open to young architects from around the world. The $30,000 first place award supports study and research abroad and is the largest such award in the United States.
Porous Drape represents a poetic recreation of Edo Castle. Also 58-meters-tall, the gently tapering edifice is open to the elements and is characterized by 100 angular openings, which invite visitors to contemplate the surrounding park. To minimize environmental impact, it would be constructed of tightly packed blocks of soil, each measuring 20 square-centimeters, cut from the base of the site and mixed with cement, sand and water.
Freitag Shop in Zurich
The Freitag Shop in Zurich is completely built from rusty, recycled freight containers. They were reinforced, piled up and secured. The shop packs in 4 sales floors offering the world’s largest selection of individual recycled Freewaybags.
Brad Pitt’s House
Mr. Pitt designed his home in the Hollywood Hills, a place that could be called a sanctuary rather than a house. He says he has always been inspired by three famous architects, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas & Daniel Libeskind.
The contrast of the rooms made of wood from the floor to the ceiling and the white rooms brings a really dynamic atmosphere but it’s also very relaxing. Brad chose modern furniture that is simple, relaxing and perfect to cozy up and read a book.
What Makes You Wealthy designed by Core Architects
Core’s designs demonstrate the idea that wealth can be found in four of life’s essential activities: eat, sleep, bath and play. The four activities are divided into two halves to form a symbiotic relationship between the introverted “bathing and sleeping” and the extroverted “eating and playing”. Each pavilion is organized by how the activities affect one another.
Sport: a Scandinavian Prefab
The Sport is a prefab house designed by Maria Rutenskold, Johan Lionell and Jan Rustenskold. Some people call it the modern version of the classic weekend cottage. The particularity of this prefab house is that you have a large panoramic window in a great big open floor plan.
Thanks to its clean lines and its timeless character, this house blends as well in a seaside environment as in the country.
KitHaus
Kithaus is a perfect modular house that can be used as a studio of vacation. But the best thing about Kithaus is that you have the freedom to design the space any way you want because the modules are built with a patented MHS frame and clamping system. You have different modules tailor made which can be built like a jigsaw puzzle.
Toyota, Prefab House
Yes, you can have a Toyota prefab house. Imagine that, a house that matches with your car. You could even pick up the same colour maybe. The car manufacturer created 3 different house designs, which are Earthquake-resistant.
When there is money to be made, big companies are always in. What’s next? They could also sell candies.
The Four Seasons Center For The Performing Arts
The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts is a 2000-seat Canadian theatre specifically designed by Diamond and Schmidt Architects for opera and ballet. The auditorium is lined with resonant wood and plaster. All the texture and materials have been selected to optimize the sound and the performance of the theatre.
The opera house is located on the south east corner of one of Toronto’s busiest intersections. This place will be a must-see.
The Cloud By Monica Forster
The Cloud is a portable room that you can use as a meeting room or meditation room. It’s ideal to use to escape for creative brainstorming. Easily transported from place to place, the room inflates in three minutes and stays inflated until it’s folded away into its connected carrying bag. The Cloud is entered and exited via a self–closing slit door allowing ample ventilation. What a nice idea to have invented a cloud that you can take wherever you want as a wallet.
Parkrand by MVRDV
Parkrand building is the new project of MVRDV in Amsterdam. There are 193 apartments built in horizontally or vertically branch. Architects at MVRDV are used to bring the nature close to the living place. As you can see they don’t hesitate to replace flowerpots with tree pots.
Cool Design In Kiruna By Ala Architects
ALA’s design seems to be the hot favorite to win the international competition to design and develop a building for the Sami Parliament. The firm’s ideology of beauty created in a practical, efficient and analytical design approach is clearly visible in this unique design wich look like a space shuttle. I’m sure ET the extra-terrestrial would come back to Earth if he could in this building.
