The Cordell House was conceived as an exercise in efficient building, with the most expensive aspects of the house – the structural elements and mechanical core – being partially prefabricated in a shop environment. Critical to the planning process was the future prospect that this project can be substantially dismantled into component parts for reuse or recycling at the end of its useful life.

The house is a 3-bedroom, 3-bath, 1858 sf single-story residence on …

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Designed as part of a residence in the mountains of suburban Beirut byY.TOHME/ARCHITECTS, this incredible cor-ten steel bridge leads to a sauna – and beyond that, a grouping of cabanas. S-Project as a whole is a kind of de-constructed, or exploded, house – where the varying programs receive their own distinct, separated volumes. By treating the varying elements of the home in this way, Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS brings nature and the surrounding woods directly into project …

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Students of the ALICE studio at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have built a wooden structure for viewing the surroundings next to a lake in Zermatt, Switzerland.

Called Evolver, the structure consists of 24 wooden frames arranged to form a tube that visitors can move through, travelling 720 degrees around the structure’s axis before arriving back to the start again. Views of the surrounding landscape are framed by slits between the supports.…

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Brisbane, Australia’s new Kurilpa Bridge, said to be the world’s largest tensegrity bridge, was officially opened to the public. Designed by the Queensland division of Australia’s Cox Rayner Architects with Arup, the pedestrian and bicycle bridge connects Brisbane’s central business district with the city’s south bank and its major cultural precinct.…

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This Singapore home remodeling project by Ong & Ong Architects showcases their work on the 55 Blair Road property. The design team consisted of Diego Molina, Maria Arango and Camilo Peleaz.  The pool is integrated into the home design and features a Century Frangipani tree native to Singapore which brings a sense of peace and reflection to the area. The spiral staircase is set off beautifully with windows on either side creating a visual experience enhanced …

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The quiet, sunny location of this difficult site generated a wholly unique arrangement of space, not typical to the city. A San Francisco house where the main ideas expressed are transparency, sunlight, and a direct connection to nature. The house will integrate photovoltaic panels, a sod roof, and 25′ timber bamboo growing through the house.…

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At first glance it may look like a cyber-robotic monster is eating the historical district of this lovely Italian city, but in reality it’s the roof of a new energy-generating walkway in Perugia, Italy. The ‘Energy Roof’, designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au is powered by both the wind and the sun and serves as the canopy of a gallery that explores important archeological sites around the city.…

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This is ‘The Cloud’, London’s Olympic village, dreamed by architects, artists and engineers.

The Cloud proposes a new form of monument, a new form of collective expression and experience, and an updated symbol of our dawning age. It proposes an entirely new form of observation deck, high above the Olympics, one from which one can not only see the whole of London, but the whole of the world, immersed in the euphoric gusts of weather

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Your ordinary log cabin is laid out with lengthwise logs stacked to make its outer walls. Piet Hein Eek, charged with building a cozy recording studio for friend and musician Hans Liberg, did not make any ordinary log cabin.…

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I would like to live in this glass house, a place in the middle of the woods that even has glass-based furniture. Why? I just want to walk around naked all day. Like I do now, but better.

Sadly, it’s just a concept based on a furniture line by Santambrogiomilano. The furniture is real, however. Thinking twice, it would be too much like living under the glass stair of an Apple Store. I still prefer Cameron’s …

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