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Is it possible that the little mermaid wouldn’t become bubbles if she had lived in a fantastic house as this one from Octavio Ocampo? I hope so, and I do love the Conch Shell Home very much. It is built of concrete and repurposed materials, featuring a shell shape and pure white color, and moreover bringing you the real feel of sea when you’re walking in or outside of it. Now let’s open you guys to the pictures for more details. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Not everybody loves skateboard but everyone would love the PAS House designed by Gil Le Bon Delapointe and Francois Perrin. It is a perfect house with every space and furniture skateable: the ground becomes the wall, the continuous ceiling forms a tube of a 10ft diameter, and most furniture is integrated in the curve to become part of the skateable house. Really funny, right? We can easily skate in and outside a house with this PAS. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Have you ever experienced a night in concrete pipes? Well, if not, we strongly suggest you have a try and you’ll see it’s not that boring as you may have imagined. But before that you need to get a touch with T3arc’s TuboHotel. It is a mini hotel located in Tepoztlan, Mexico and it was built from recycled concrete pipes. Each room may seem bit of small on the pictures but actually they offer a really cozy living as well as some beautiful panoramic views of the Sierra del Tepozteco. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Bureau Spectacular’s Phalanstery Module lets us to go through an experience of zero-gravity. It is an interesting architecture that rotates once an hour: one of its surfaces become parallel to the ground every 15 minutes and two people will be bound to collide in the middle of every 7.5- minute conversations. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Jon Salerno’s Habitat Micro Home provides a clever and practical way to expand the area of your living space. It uses a small car docked underneath a 100 square feet house to act as an extra room so that the total reconfigurable space inside the Habitat Micro Home would reach 132 square feet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Buildings in Moscow used to have a long distance from others so you may easily find large space between offices if you’re wandering in that city. But such space between buildings would not exist too long after Za Bor Architects come up with the Parasite office concept. To be finalized in the future, the office building will be built between two buildings without a base on the ground. It is so interesting. More surprising is the office building will have three floors with an accessible roof area as well. Will that be safe enough? No certain answer is offered by now so we may need to wait to see. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Things have gone to be different… To get a car in or out of the house located in Florida, you would have to open the whole wall rather than a door. But do not be too astonished, as the wall is in fact a really wide door decorated like a doorway. Have you noticed that? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Do subway stations need to be so splendorous? I mean, nowadays these underground buildings tend to be much more gorgeous than those on ground while we seldom have chance to view them frequently, let alone take them as scenic spots. But since people always prefer fabulous things, we surely need some awesome subway stations as shown below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Isay Weinfeld’s Village Bookstore is a convertible and mobile design for library Livraria da Vila. Everyday it offers consumers with plenty of books while utilizes four huge movable bookcases as display windows when closed in the evenings. So no matter you walk outside or inside the bookstore, you’ll always see a world full of books. Isn’t that amazing? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Everyone loves transparent items, from the Bubble Tent to this Italy-based Glass House. Built by the sea, it is made almost entirely with a variety of ultra-clear and strong glass. So when you look at the house, you’ll directly see its interior and may feel like that all its furniture is floating in the air. Fabulous! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Inventionland, America’s largest invention factory, is a famous studio especially built for working out creative ideas. Every year it comes up with 2,000-2,400 new inventions and drives the world forward on with its innovative spirit. But how could Inventionland be so creative? Somebody finds a possible answer from Inventionland’s unique offices. Now let’s go and start our tour in Inventionland offices. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This water tower redesigned by Zecc Architects to change into a delicate apartment has no doubt brought some shock to our mind. Dated from 1931, the water tower looks quite ordinary from outside but will surprise everybody that walks into it. A three-level high window frame was built to let in more daylight; steel, concrete and other materials were adopted to keep the interior’s industrial characteristics; and inside the rooms many simple but practical furniture was used. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Aha, a building inspired by cheese?! Although I love cheese quite much, I never imagine that I’ll one day see a cheese building in reality. But it looks really great, with many holes both in and out of the building- some of them as decorative part and some used to exhibit items. Designed by Jakob + Macfarlane as a creative design showroom in Lyon, France, this building has already become a new landscape and together with the river and the surrounding hills to amaze tourists everyday. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ok, now everybody may have a chance to live in mushroom cloud. Created by Dietrich Wegner, this mushroom cloud playhouse is just what we’ve been dreamed of for year- a white, romantic house floating in the air. Time again I need to say that human’s imagination undoubtedly will make our life better, and let’s just start a new life with this mushroom cloud playhouse! [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you don’t have enough money to get a big house outside, you may just build a two-floor house inside your loft? Wow wow, it’s still costy! [Read the rest of this entry...]