Vacation House in Henne by Mette Lange A...

Mette Lange Architects plays with our architectural vocabulary in its design of Vacation House in Henne. The residence, located upon the banks of the Danish seashore, forces us to question the formal definition of the deck, the porch, and the veranda. The primary two living spaces of the house are divided into the portion for the family’s use and the guestroom, both sharing the roofed, yet accessible to all parties, ...

Stubus Watch by Studio Lebedev

The growth and consequent patterns of tree rings is a common method used in tracking time and dating. Though this practice operates on the scale of years, Moscow-based Studio Lebedev has transposed this idea to a more user-friendly scale of ...

Eco-Cabanas by Kristofer Nonn

Beautiful architecture isn’t necessarily tied to the allure of glazed facades or the jaw-dropping sticker price. Designer Kristofer Nonn proves this point with the economically and ecologically friendly cabañas designed for Peace Villages Foundation. The two prototypes of Windscoop and ...

Zhang Xiangxi

Remember the good old school days of book reports and dioramas? Chinese artist Zhang Xiangxi elevates the 3D displays to a new level, choosing the “tube” (the term scientifically accurate, for these are the cathode-ray TV sets) as his set. ...

Koo Koo Mailbox by Bill Playso

Carrier pigeons are an outdated form of postal service, but that won’t stop the friendly birds from infiltrating your mail route. Bill Playso of Australian design brand Playso has crafted a low maintenance companion for carrying – well, housing – ...

Robo Cup Noodle Timer by Vstone

It is pretty amazing how many cup noodles are consumed by college students on a semester basis. Whether for late-night charettes or coding frenzies, the easy-to-make commodity might be even more prevalent once students learn that Nissin Food Products, in ...

Armadillo by Yuji Tanabe Architects

Though the xenarthran mammal is an odd inspiration for a building, Armadillo shares a number of parallels with its namesake. Designed by Yuji Tanabe Architects, the residence in Kamakura, Japan is a careful analysis of the existing neighborhood grid, as ...

Temporary Wedding Pavillion by DUS Archi...

I had a classmate who did her architecture design thesis on crochet and its implicit architectural typologies. I was a skeptic at the time, and so I must admit my surprise at DUS Architects Amsterdam’s Wedding Chapel in Den Haag. ...

Cut Food Series by Beth Galton

I bet that photographer Beth Galton is one of those gals who likes to bite her chocolate truffles in half, just to take a look at the filling inside. Galton essentially does the same examination on several food favorites, though ...

100 Years Later by Maico Akiba

Time capsules are curious things; they offer the promise of travel through an unnavigable dimension. While fascination around the time capsule can extend from the simple schoolchildren’s anticipation for recovering treasured memories to the involvement of high-tech companies such as ...