Medieval cottage encased within new home embraces layers by Kirsten Dirksen on November 9, 2019 When Kate Darby and David Connor were told they had to preserve the 300-year-old cottage on their property or lose …
Brothers build boreal utopia of open-roof cube cabins in nature by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2019 On a piece of land purchased by their grandfather in Charlevoix, Quebec, Jonathan and Simon Galarneau have built a dozen …
Rundown garret becomes a tiny penthouse perching over Lisbon by Kirsten Dirksen on October 28, 2019 João Gameiro took a dark, rundown flat in an early 19th century Lisbon building and used traditional craftsmanship to open …
Agile villages for fire victims as template to fix CA housing? by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2019 After a fire destroyed over 5,000 homes in Santa Rosa, California, locals got together to help their neighbors: one resident …
Tiny boat home packs sunroom & dock in remote kayakers’ lake by Kirsten Dirksen on October 13, 2019 To reach the Iloft floating cabin, you drive five hours north from Montreal to Quebec’s third-largest lake and then kayak …
Biodegradable home built by hand with cork LEGOs, no glue by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2019 Using 1,268 cork blocks, Matthew Barnett Howland built a home almost entirely by hand that uses no glues or mortars …
Tiny diesel tank becomes time-capsule-style personal shelter by Kirsten Dirksen on September 29, 2019 Martín Marro wanted to “rescue the memory” of his childhood home: a converted 1940s gas station in Luque, Argentina. So …
An easy-to-install prefab cabin as alternative to rental flats? by Kirsten Dirksen on September 23, 2019 In response to his city’s housing crisis, Simon Becker created a prototype cabin that can be placed on any underutilized …
Skinny home in Toronto as prototype for parking-space homes? by Kirsten Dirksen on September 15, 2019 When Cyril Borovsky bought a 16-foot-wide strip of land in Toronto sandwiched between two bungalows, he knew the only way …
Old barn becomes young architect’s budget, elegant home-studio by Kirsten Dirksen on September 8, 2019 Alfredo Vanotti wanted to recover the old barn his grandfather had built 100 years ago in his village’s now-abandoned town …