Small apartment with popout kitchen celebrates light & flow by Kirsten Dirksen on December 12, 2020 To add light and space to a cramped 60 square meter flat (645 square feet), Laura Bonell knocked down most …
Austin backyard tiny home gently expands beyond its surface by Kirsten Dirksen on August 3, 2020 Limited by the city of Austin (Texas) to building on 45% of a lot, architect Nicole Blair leaned the walls …
Tokyo maze-home blurs boundary urban/nature, indoors/outdoors by Kirsten Dirksen on May 31, 2020 Step inside Boundary House and enter a maze of hallways, rooms, open-air patios designed to blur the boundary between inside …
Triangle home filling small lot takes cues from boat tradition by Kirsten Dirksen on February 2, 2020 On a tiny triangular lot in central Lisbon, Luis Pedro Pinto built a right-angle home for his family taking advantage …
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 …
T-shaped dark megalith hosts back-to-basics young family home by Kirsten Dirksen on August 25, 2019 To create a light-filled home on a small plot where an adjacent building blocked the southern sun, Tilemachos Andrianopoulos elevated …
Mount Athos cabin light-pierced via olive-leave openings by Kirsten Dirksen on July 8, 2019 On a hill in an olive grove overlooking the sea and the monasteries of Mount Athos, Eva Sopeoglou designed a …
Pythagorean home amidst olive grove offers views & protection by Kirsten Dirksen on April 7, 2019 Asked by an Athens couple to design a home embedded in their olive grove, architect Tilemachos Andrianopoulos used geometry to …
Vina Lustado’s home-office using 2 tiny houses in “L” + deck by Kirsten Dirksen on August 27, 2018 When Vina Lustado moved into the 140-square-foot home on wheels she and her husband Cliff had built (for $40,000) in …
House of no walls by former Berlin wall has dream kitchen on top by Kirsten Dirksen on April 15, 2018 When Helle Schröder and Martin Janekovic (XTH-Berlin architects) signed a 199-year lease on some land along the old Berlin Wall, they …