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You Can Walk on the Roof of the Spiral-Shaped Shanghai Grand Opera House

Photo: STUDIO FANG Shanghai has welcomed a striking new cultural landmark with the opening of the Shanghai Grand Opera House, a sweeping performing arts center designed by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta. Located along the Huangpu River in the city’s Expo…
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Inside the Factory Building Hurricane Resistant Folding Prefab Homes!

I went to Florida to see a 1 bedroom Prefab Home that ships efficiently to improve the affordability of housing. While I was there I got a behind the scenes look at the factory to see how it’s made. This…
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bugatti destrier debuts at the quail with sculptural one-meter-tall one-off

bugatti turns the bolide into the one-off ‘destrier’ At The Quail during Monterey Car Week, designboom watched Bugatti pull the cover from the Destrier for its first public appearance. The car is the third creation from Programme Solitaire, Bugatti’s ultra-exclusive…
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A Designer’s Own Home Where Colour Transforms Every Room (House Tour)

A designer’s own home where colour transforms every room, Gable House in Melbourne is a deeply personal exploration of how colour, heritage and family life can coexist with warmth and restraint. Home to Studio Doherty director Mardi Doherty and her…
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This Concrete House Had to Be Built Piece by Piece

Casa Macahuite looks like the kind of house that would require heavy trucks, cranes, and large construction equipment. But reaching this remote site on the coast of Oaxaca meant crossing an old, narrow bridge over a lagoon — making conventional…
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This South Tyrol Retreat Keeps the Mountains in View

Blending Austrian and Italian influences, the Alpine-Mediterranean province of South Tyrol, Italy, is chock-full of all-inclusive resorts touting flashy break-out amenities. But for many visitors to this remote region, the real draw is simpler: slowing down and taking in the…
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Inside the 238 square foot Prefab Home Designed for Full Size Living!

I went to the home show and toured a Tiny Home with a full wood interior. This is the Scandinavian from Cahill Works, a 238 square foot park model with a shed roof and everything one might need including washer/dryer.…
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Living Big in a Small House

This house is only about 850 square feet — but it feels much larger because so much of it was intentionally left open. Designed by KWCA – Kosala Weerasekara Chartered Architects in Kaduwela, Sri Lanka, the Studio House takes a…
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Spiraling Geometries Inspire a Sculptural Observatory Planned for Saudi Arabia’s Alula Desert

London-based Heatherwick Studio continues its exploration of architecture that merges scientific function with sculptural ambition, this time turning its attention skyward. The firm has unveiled AlUla Manara, an astrotourism visitor center and research complex destined for the remote desert of…
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They Weren’t Allowed a Third Floor—So They Did This

A family needed a three-story home. The problem was that only two stories were allowed on the site. For Coogee House in Sydney, Chenchow Little turned that restriction into architecture. Part of the upper-level wall folds inward to become the…
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This Company Sells a Real Expandable Prefab Home for $9,590 — Full Model Lineup

One New York company is selling a real, livable expandable prefab home for just $9,590 — cheaper than most used cars — and it’s one of 13 foldable modular houses in a lineup that runs all the way up to…
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single sheet of folded steel sculpts into z-shaped table lamp

Folded Steel Defines the Asymmetrical Form of TABLE LAMP Z Designed by Cobre Estudio, TABLE LAMP Z explores how a simple manufacturing process can generate a distinctive and expressive lighting object. The project starts from a single sheet of 2…
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A Family Spent Six Years Building This Off-Grid Timber Home (House Tour)

A family spent six years building this off-grid timber home in Middle Dural, where architecture, craftsmanship and landscape come together across a 20-hectare semi-rural site. Designed by Andrew Donaldson Architecture and Design and built by owner Steve Mallinger of Mallinger…
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Inside the 600 sq ft Prefab Home Finished in California!!

I went to California to see an 600 square foot prefab home built with teak. This is the M One Bedroom from Masaya Homes, a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom prefab home that has a very cool look both inside and…
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This SoHo Skincare Store Takes Its Cues From the Landscape

Layers of ultralight MDF, each two inches thick and banded in stained maple veneer, stack into a sinuous mass that runs the length of SKIN1004‘s first U.S. flagship. The Korean skincare brand’s New York store spans nearly 9,900 square feet…
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Gorgeous 20th-Century Hospital in Barcelona Was Designed to Heal Through Beauty

Photo: Bernard Gagnon via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) When you think of Barcelona’s most famous architecture, Antoni Gaudí’s colorful mosaics and soaring basilicas probably come to mind. But the world’s largest Art Nouveau complex was actually designed by his…
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They Buried Half the House to Open Up the Rest

Part of Babylonia is buried beneath its own garden. Designed by FMD Architects in northeastern Melbourne, Australia, the house uses a steeply sloping site to create a sequence of very different spaces. Some rooms are tucked into the ground, while…
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Touring a Cottage Style Prefab Home with 12’ Ceilings! #hometour

Inside the Channelside from Kyllo Homes, a park model with 12′ Ceilings! Click the link below to watch the full tour: Read another article:Design Trends for Creating a Vacation Vibe at Homehttps://youtu.be/6rfEXvo_1nU #modularhome #prefabhome #cottagecore…