The Bubble Castle is an unusual house situated near Cannes in the South of France. It’s the creation of Finnish architect Antti Lovag and known as a summer home of the legendary fashion designer Pierre Cardin. The house stretches over 1200 m2 , including 10 suites decorated by a different artists, a reception seating 350...
This Australian house is a 24-metre diameter octagon with a 3-metre, 360-degree verandah. Its exterior walls are mostly glass and steel, and it rotates around a central pivot point. Even though entire structure weights around 50 tonnes yet can take advantage of sunshine and shade at different times of the day. The house also encapsulates...
This sculptural house is made out of 110 tons of steel and looks like it isn’t from this planet. The architect spent 23 years on building 2,700 square feet house. The house has fluid organic design style that optimizes light and visual experience. It’s truly unique architectural piece that the architect can really be proud...
This wonderful house is located in Mexico City. Even though there are many great houses out there integrated to nature there aren’t any integrated into aquatic nature. The house was built with a 2″ ferrocement shell and shaped like Nautilus shell. Among cool features of the house design are a grass carpet, eading residents and...
This floating house has a quite unique design. The imaginative use of curved glue lam beams evoke the poetry of the ripples and contours of a river. The whole facade is made of glass and features amazing river and sunset views. The curvilinear forms create spacial differentiation that enhance the experience of time as light...
This contemporary home occupies a steep slope in Penafiel, Portugal. It’s design is very unusual for such sites. The home is integrated into the slope and because of that it’s very long and narrow. The roof functions as pavement support for the gardens: similar to the traditional threshing floors and patios in the northern regions...
This stone house is constructed in the middle of the Fafe Mountains in Portugal. Rising in the middle of a wind farm. It uses two gigantic granite stones for its main structure, linked with a concrete mix. As you can see it looks like the house inspired by the Flintstone cartoons. Thanks to such unusual...
These Flower Houses are two of the few houses left among the condos at Alki Beach in Seattle, Washington. They are gorgeous landmarks that add some charm to the whole neighborhood. Everybody enjoy to pass them by. Although imagine, how hard is to maintain all these beauty?
This sculptural piece of architecture is located on a steep sloping site in the woods of Portland, Oregon. It’s designed for a music lover to become a part of the natural landscape. This house evades the mechanics of the camera; it is difficult to capture the way the interior space flows seamlessly through to the...