Luc Schuiten –‘archiborescence’
You have to admire a man who has invented his own “new way of building” and called it archiborescence. For three decades, this eco-visionary has been imagining and realizing homes, urban landscapes,...
View ArticleFrench Medieval castle – built 1998 to 2023+
The construction of the Chateau de Guedelon in Burgundy, France makes me think I’m setting the bar too low in my own aspirations! Started in 1998, the Castle is being built using only tools, materials...
View ArticleCabin in British Columbia
Not that I want to live or even sleep in my place (well perhaps the occasional snooze) but I think that this weekend cabin on Gambier Island, British Columbia, Canada is a smasher Small, functional and...
View ArticleTiny apartment
I would love to have the discipline required to live in a place like this ’11-feet-3-inches wide, by 16-feet-2-inches deep, by 10-feet-4-inches tall’ apartment built by Steve Sauer in Seattle....
View ArticleHorizontals
I recently stayed in a lovely chalet on an estuary in Brittany. It was basically a log cabin, but well disguised as something far more sophisticated. It was built in the late 60′s with some great...
View ArticleFlat roof / living roof / green roof
I must admit to a growing attraction to living roofs (or green roofs as they now become under the green-wash that splatters onto even legitimately green solutions). From Travel …I’ve taken to snapping...
View ArticleA tower of my own
I seem to keep on finding inspiration in ‘castley‘ structures such as this one. Maison L – French Site & inhabitat.com – a French house that is a grandly and imaginatively extended 18th century...
View ArticleMudgee Permanent Camping project
The Mudgee Permanent Camping project has spawned an inspirational structure. Part campsite, part stage, part fortress – I particularly like the fortress bit… The lower story panels are clad in copper...
View ArticleSod roofs!
Until the eighteenth century sod or turf roofs were the norm in Norway. Pretty, practical and their time may be coming again! Personally, I think I prefer sometime a little less lawn-like for my own...
View ArticleBoat house
I love this Norwegian boat house for the beauty it possesses, not just from its setting but also from its sublime balance of form and function. Those outward opening walls and the way that the building...
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