In a city characterized by fast population growth, Amsterdam residents are beginning to entertain alternative living situations. Enter Schoonschip, a sustainable floating neighborhood located on the Johan van Hasselt Canal in a former industrial area. Local architecture firm i29 has created a striking floating home with a small footprint inside the community.
For our 2020 review, here are the top 10 cabins shown on Dezeen this year, including a cabin made from infested wood and one with a titanium roof.
Canadian architect Natalie Dionne has completed a forest retreat in southeastern Quebec, which is raised up on stilts to meet the level of the rocky landscape.
A new study has shown a way to make wood transparent without using huge amounts of energy in the process.
In 2016 and again in 2018, PetaPixel featured the work of Dora Goodman, a woman who was adding hand-crafted elements to analog cameras. Fast forward to
Get lost among the snow-capped mountains in the Mountain Refuge, a tiny home constructed from prefabricated plywood modules.
While traditional wood and velvet-lined caskets can take more than a decade to decompose in the earth, a new design by Bob Hendrikx is an environmentally friendly alternative that replenishes the soil. Breaking down in just two to three years, “The Living Cocoon” is composed entirely of mycelium, th
A triangular window punctures the slanted, charred-wood walls of this sculptural office cabin designed by prefab housing designers Koto.
Architecture studio Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes has built a curving wood and steel bridge over railway tracks in Angers, France.
designed and manufactured in hungary by hello wood, kabinka takes cues from local rural architectural heritage.
Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has picked 10 projects representing the New London Fabulous movement of “beauty, complexity and joy”.
Walnut, oak and ribbons of leather combine to make the four new furniture pieces released by Japanese brand Ritzwell.
ERI SUMITOMO ARCHITECTS collaborated with ENJOYWORKS on a small wooden House in Hayama, Japan with an acrylic curtain that turns the house into a lantern.
The French government has announced plans for a sustainability law that will ensure all new public buildings are built from at least 50 per cent timber or other natural materials.
Designed by Plural, the conceptual Loop lighting made of recycled felt was made to adapt to multipurpose use by way of a simple swivel.
Apollo Architects & Associates designed the austere metal exterior of Leaf House to disguise a central planted courtyard covered by exposed wooden rafters.
denpaku the beachfront mijora by atelier tekuto and amami design firm is a complex of thirteen origami-like concrete villas in the amami archipelago, japan.
Chicago-based designer Yuting Chang has conceived of a way to build the traditional blue and white pigments often found on porcelain into the very structure of her ceramics. Through slip casting, a process in which the artist can switch between colors within the mold, Chang is able to incorporate up
Researchers have found a way to turn common trash, like coffee grounds, food scraps and plastic waste, into graphene. Learn more about this breakthrough study.
Located on the outskirts of Xiadi, a tiny town in China’s Fujian Province, a stunning new Trace Architecture-designed bookstore occupies a once-abandoned residence. A model for sustainable structur…
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