Homes

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/Herzog__de_Meuron_New_York_1_S.jpg
buncha bunch more great images
In the design by Herzog & de Meuron for 560 Leonard Street the load-bearing structure is strategically absent in the façade. The round columns are placed where Le Corbusier put them: just off the wall. The effect is not so much that of weightlessness - the building still has a distinct, ‘heavy’ mass that firmly stands on the ground. No, combined with the hip displacement of the upper floors, the effect is that of the stack. A stack of 56 stories, to be precise.

I am tempted to write that we could consider the design to be an exhibit of the ‘vertical schism’ that Rem Koolhaas recognized in the early twentieth century skyscraper. That is only a small part of the design, I think. More importantly is that the stack as a whole has turned into a sculpture in which each floor in theory could shrink or grow, or even move. The only parameter that is fixed, apart from the floor-to-ceiling height and the inescapable glass facade, is the relation to the elevator core. After the ‘plan libre’, now there is the ‘free perimeter’.

the shipping container as building block

it's a pretty little thing, isn't it?

http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/residential/archives/images/0507ecoms.jpg

would defintely live here for sure even in the snow
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/12/hof-house-by-studio-granada-architects/

Holiday home in Australia equates mathematics to architecure

http://www.kirainet.com/english/japanese-facades/

Hard times: The trailer park as a 21st-century housing model? Seriously.

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/taliesin-ed01.jpg

Frank Lloyd Wright meets modern day prefab in the stunning Mod.Fab home, developed by students at Taliesin West in collaboration with their Dean Victor Sidy and Inhabitat favorite Jennifer Siegal. The goal of the collaboration was to build a prototype prefab conducive to elegant and sustainable living within the heart of the desert landscape. It only took a single picture for us to become instantaneous fans, and from passive solar design to photovoltaic panels and SIPs we’re thoroughly impressed with the project’s sustainable elements.

the outside slides off

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/slidinghouse2_rev.jpg

more images here

it's a tv story but the concepts presented are fucking awesome

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/vaderhouse-ed08.jpg

neat renovation of a victorian house in melbourne

some cutie houses from atelier bow-wow

http://www.bow-wow.jp/profile/works_e.html

more container fun!!
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/10/container-nation-multi-family-housing-in-utah/

somehow they are darling

http://dearada.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bf66653ef011570413fd6970b-400wi

did you get in your reader a million times that "cameron's house" is for sale? i think every site i read posted it at least once!

it's funny that it's such a thing, but i guess i understand, because it's a fucking cool house.

if you don't know what i'm talking about, let me know. i'm sure i will be getting another blog post about it soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Cb9BzQxus

cuz it's funny in the end

i need to read this when i can think about it (not at work)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/arts/design/07capsule.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&ref=global-home

i love those pods

a kitchen countertop made of legos? righteous!

http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/legokitchen-550x339.jpg

http://www.gekkoportugal.com/paco55408.htm