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Torus House: Curved Courtyard-Wrapping Urban Oasis
Privacy and green space can be hard to come by in the city – this house manages to feature both in spades, despite its central location in the Quang Ninh province of Vietnam. Designed by Vo Trong...
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Trash Treasure: Rome Villa is an Entirely Recycled Sanctuary
To paraphrase a rather overused saying, one person’s trash is another’s treasure. The things we throw away are often still completely usable in some way – it just takes a bit of imagination to see...
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Safe Haven: Australia’s Cyclone-Resistant Eco-Friendly Home
In the tropical climate of Far North Queensland, Australia, cyclones regularly threaten the homes and lives of residents. Charles Wright Architects built the Stamp Home in FNQ as a safe shelter from...
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Semi-Subterranean Digs: Modern Take on Native Pit Houses
Modernism meets traditional environmental systems in this elegant dwelling seemingly sliced into the ground around it, drawing on geothermal advantages without forcing its residents entirely...
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Self-Sufficient Green Dream Home is One With Surroundings
The perfect nature retreat is one that allows you to experience your natural surroundings without actually disturbing nature. Isolée, a low-impact nature retreat designed by Frank Tjepkema of Dutch...
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Vertical Garden: Home Facade Covered in 25 Kinds of Plants
Unlike its horizontal equivalent, pruning a vertical surface can be a tricky proposition at best, so species selection done from the outset is a crucial key to success. You need rugged and robust...
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Three-Story Interior Green Wall Breathes Life into Home
What looks like an imposing, monolithic black volume from the outside is filled with air, light and greenery on the inside. Casa CorManca is a modern, sustainable home in Mexico City with vertical...
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Rammed-Earth Retreat: Modern Home Made of Local Soil
Slightly-squiggly lines divide the multi-hued organic building blocks of this crisp-edged mountain home, tying it into the surrounding landscape of rolling hills and rough cacti. A set of boxes lifts...
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The DIY Tiny House Built and Occupied by a Family of 4
We all have dreams and hopes for how our lives will turn out, but how many of us can turn on a dime and completely reinvent our lives when those dreams don’t work out? A family of four did just that,...
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Workaround: Raised Forest Residence Deftly Dodges Trees
This forest structure that takes site-specific design to new heights, bending its entire layout around trees and, in a few cases, even building them into the structure itself. For this remote home in...
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Quirky Cabana: Little Retreat Blends into Sloped Landscape
Contextual and eclectic, you could almost imagine it as a kind of folk architecture, but there is more to this simple building than meets the eye. For one, despite its colorful mix of materials, a...
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Cantilevered Home Hangs Over River Like a Broken Bridge
Like the remnant framework of an abandoned rail bridge, this riverside house has a deck that seems to fit its semi-barren surroundings, evoking a sense of place and history while also serving as a...
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Low-Impact Sustainable Homes for Families in Remote Places
No matter how you feel about the energy, forestry and mining industries that have taken up residence in Canada, the fact is that those industries are firmly entrenched in Alberta. The housing market...
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Curvy Solar House is a Cozy, Green, Shared Student Abode
Student housing in most parts of the world is a necessary (but usually unpleasant) situation. Twenty-five students from Sweden’s Chalmers University designed and built HALO, a sustainable shared home...
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Low-Cost House: Hybrid Home of Cheap Cargo Containers
A low budget and a rat infestation were just a few of the many stumbling blocks standing in the way of creating this low-cost home for a low-income family in South Korea, all eventually overcome with...
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Upcycle House Made of Textural Post-Consumer Materials
Two shipping containers are the foundation for a single-family home made almost entirely of reclaimed post-consumer materials. Imaginative reuse of waste products like aluminum soda cans, champagne...
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Low-Impact Prefab Vacation Cabin is at Home Anywhere
This modern prefab dwelling is meant to be adaptable to whatever location you decide to holiday in. Project Green Zero from Studio di Architettura Daniele Menichini was designed for the hospitality...
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Eco-Friendly Home Produces More Energy Than It Uses
One of the goals of eco-friendly construction is to create homes that not only use fewer resources than conventional homes, but to create those that actually produce more energy than they consume. The...
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Stackable Housing Unit Adds Up to Affordable Living
Costing just $49,500 each, these stackable prefabricated one-bedroom dwellings could help solve London’s housing crisis. The Y:Cube by architectural firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is an answer...
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This Beautiful Passive House Can Be Built in Just Four Days
An inexpensive sustainable home that you can build yourself over the course of a long weekend might seem like a pipe dream, but French architectural firm Multipod Studio is making it a reality. Their...
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