After writing about the creative initiative of the Stankey brothers’ shipping container home, I thought that the small Clara Cabin will also fit nicely with the ‘do-it-yourself cabins in the woods’ kind of thing. Continue reading →

Check out this small beach house by London-based, Studiomama. With its cedar shingles exterior and softwood interior, the 388 sq. ft. Beach Chalet offers a compact living space full of charm and character. Continue reading →

The award-winning Sackler Crossing, by British architect John Pawson, is absolutely divine; I love how this architectural sculpture flows like a bronze serpentine path across the lake of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, near London England. Continue reading →

With a very narrow lot area of 24.58 sq. meters, Japanese architecture firm Schemata had a very compact space to deal with. Their solution was the 63.02 degrees house. Continue reading →

Located on a family property in northern Minnesota in a very small community called Holyoke, this small and cozy shipping container cabin was created single-handedly by two very talented brothers, Paul and Scott Stankey. Continue reading →

Located on a 622 sq. meters lot on a hill at the foot of mounten Yatsugatake in Yamanashi, Japan, this small wooden house is called ‘Atelier for calligrapher’ by Japanese firm Kochi Architect’s Studio. Continue reading →

Located in Ribčev Laz (a settlement on the amazing Lake Bohinj in Slovenia), House R by Bevk Perović Arhitekti, reminds me of the games we used to play where an apparently sealed box revealed hidden treasures by sliding certain parts of it. Continue reading →

This is the studio design for William Bradley Pitt, also known as Brad Pitt – I kid you not! In case you ever wondered which lucky group gets to work with the stars, then this time it’s Graft Architects, an international architecture firm. Continue reading →

Located on a 322 sq. ft. corner lot in Tokyo, the Penguin House by Japanese architect Yasuhiro Yamashita of Atelier Tekuto, is quite a small house – only 899 sq. ft. floor space. However, through ceiling height manipulation and streamlined natural light, it seems larger than it actually is. Continue reading →

Transforming the common shipping cargo containers into houses, studios, shops and work spaces is a great idea. Cargotecture, as Joel Egan and Robert Humble call it, offers large, low-cost prefab housing solutions based on a vision of sustainability and a modular approach. Continue reading →