aVOID: if a Swiss Army knife were a tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on December 24, 2017 All of the furniture and rooms in Leonardo Di Chiara’s tiny house fold, swing, and pivot into the walls, so, …
World’s oldest family business & meaning of life/work by Kirsten Dirksen on December 17, 2017 The Hōshi family has run the inn bearing their name in Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture for 1,300 years. Forty six generations …
Transformer CNC cabin by a lake as a father-son work dialogue by Kirsten Dirksen on December 10, 2017 Daniel Yudchitz and his father, Bill, are both architects who took their love of craft, cabins and Swiss precision in …
Paris home-within-home: metal core adds space to modern loft by Kirsten Dirksen on December 3, 2017 To preserve the open, industrial feel of a 1920s industrial loft in Paris’ 11th arrondissement, architect Alex Delaunay inserted a …
Underground dome house stays warm in Omaha winters by Kirsten Dirksen on November 26, 2017 Rebecca Weitzel and Jeff Waschkowski live in a buried home in Omaha, Nebraska and while winters temperatures can hit negative 30 degrees …
Polymath-plumber makes unique furniture & artifacts from waste by Kirsten Dirksen on November 20, 2017 Self-taught designer Fernando Abellanas considers the city his playground. One day he drove under a highway overpass in his hometown …
Side-door container 2nd life as WA’s ski town outdoorsy home by Kirsten Dirksen on November 12, 2017 Shiah Lints was tired of life in a 2500 converted farmhouse, so he bought a side door shipping container to …
Berlin architect turns silo into spaceship-esque home-as-art by Kirsten Dirksen on November 6, 2017 After two years of living in a camper with his young daughter, architect Jan Körbes wanted something better suited to …
Bill Lilly uses containers to rebuild a burnt Oxford MS home by Kirsten Dirksen on October 30, 2017 Since Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi builder Bill Lilly had been drafting ideas for building on the foundations of disaster so when …
Using containers to stack high yield farms for urban produce by Kirsten Dirksen on October 22, 2017 As a business school student Maarten Vandecruys became fascinated by robotized plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs). Just a few …
