Houses (or stores or apartment buildings) made from shipping containers are hardly a new thing, but that doesn't make the revelation of a new modular abode any less exciting. The latest shipping ...

Growing up, Nicole Negrin spent most weekends at her family’s vacation house in Cold Spring, New York, where she liked to hike in the hills, stroll the charming streets and take in the picturesque ...

The angular Two Skins House, designed by architect Veronica Arcos, is enveloped in two insulating layers that help maintain stable temperatures indoors all year roound. Perched on high cliffs north of ...

The city of Ballarat, about 100km from Melbourne, first gained attention in the Victorian gold rush days. More than a century later, signs of the past are still evident in its historical streetscapes, ...

Japanese studio Apollo Architects and Associates arranged the spaces of this tall, angular house in Tokyo to frame views of the nearby Skytree observation tower (+ slideshow). Located on an ...

This angular house in a forest near Helsinki is host to a number a child-friendly features including a climbing wall, gymnastic apparatus and a net covering a cut-out in one of the floors. The ...

For a verdant natural setting lush with trees and prairie in Bannockburn, Chicago architect Dirk Denison designed a sharp-angled house of steel, glass and stone. It would seem the setting and the ...

Set in the sleepy, commuter belt of Fukuoka city, T Residence is an intriguing, angular house, the brainchild of locally based Japanese architecture studio Matsuyama Architect and Associates. Created ...