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I Just Found a Prefab Micro Home Built for California!!

I went to the Home Show to see a 275 square foot Modular Home with a modern look. This is the Lalit from Origin Studios. The Lalit is a 1 bedroom model that is designed for full time living as…
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Inside the Secret Cabins of New Zealand’s Most Exclusive Coastal Resort (Cabin Tour)

Inside the secret cabins of New Zealand’s most exclusive coastal resort, architecture is shaped by an extraordinary coastal setting where rolling dunes, open skies and distant ocean views define the experience. Located at Te Arai Links in Tomarata, the villas…
Architecture

Leibal — Maison Butte Bergeyre

Maison Butte Bergeyre is a minimalist residence by the Paris-based architecture studio Simon Jouin Architecte. Located in Paris’s 19th arrondissement, the four-story house sits at the junction of two quiet streets, away from the city’s main roads. Originally built in…
Architecture

Leibal — Casa San Francisco

Casa San Francisco is a minimalist residence located in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, designed by Jorge Garibay. The brief called for a retreat within a working vineyard on the edge of this colonial town in Guanajuato, and from the…
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Jordan Soderberg Mills Transforms a Historic Chapel With Light

The phenomenon of light—in all its glory—is central to Jordan Soderberg Mills’ oeuvre. He has created numerous immersive works for temporary and permanent commissions around the world with a wonderful simplicity that belies the complex physics that make them possible.…
Architecture

Leibal — House in Rörum

The House in Rörum is a minimalist house located in Rörum, Sweden, designed by Fors Arkitekter. Set on a former apple orchard in southern Sweden, the project takes its cues from the traditional farm buildings that surround it, buildings whose…
Architecture

Leibal — Garret House

Garret House is a minimalist residence located in São Paulo, Brazil, designed by Felipe Hess Arquitetos. The renovation takes a subtractive approach to an existing house, reorganizing its relationship with natural light through selective removals and the insertion of skylights…
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F5: Benjamin Aranda Talks His Kids’ Art, Chairs, Pigeons + More

Every architect has a particular process, and for Benjamin Aranda, a blend of basic and intricate aspects shape his projects. “At the studio, we relish the challenge of breaking complex systems down into simple automated logics and then using these…
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Inside a Family Home Where Nature Shapes Every Room (House Tour)

Inside a family home where nature shapes every room, White Rock by Matters + Made is a coastal sanctuary designed around family life, material richness and a deep connection to its Avalon Beach setting. Located between Avalon and Whale Beach,…
Architecture

Leibal — Green Lodge

Green Lodge is a minimalist subterranean residence located in Putney Heath, London, United Kingdom, designed by Stylus Architects. The brief was simple to the point of provocation: a longstanding contractor client told the studio to do whatever it wanted, provided…
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A Hidden Coastal Home Built Around Two Secret Courtyards (House Tour)

A hidden coastal home built around two secret courtyards, Double Courtyard House by Roberts Gray Architects is shaped by the shifting conditions of its coastal Auckland site. Set an hour north of the city, the home sits among rolling agricultural…
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Inside m2atelier’s Crafted Capsule at Genova Design Week

Reimagining shipping containers as homes, studios, or pop-ups certainly isn’t new, but Milan-based architecture and design studio m2atelier took a more novel approach. The Crafted Capsule, an experiential installation housed with a shipping container is less about the limitations of…
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202620 These Hurricane Proof Prefab HOmes start at $12K 1

Hurricane-proof homes, Category 5-rated modular houses, and prefab storm-proof structures — starting at just $11,350 and shipping ready to install. If you live in Florida, along the Gulf Coast, or anywhere hurricane season keeps you up at night, this video…
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Sounds of Philadelphia Turns a Historic Facade Into a Living Playlist

Architecture has long shaped the way we move through cities. This summer in Philadelphia, it’s shaping the way people listen, too. Beginning Jul. 1, the historic facade of the Village of Industry & Art (VIA) at 320 South Broad Street…
Architecture

The Findling

The Findling is a minimalist retreat located in Austerlitz, United States, designed by Of Possible. Commissioned by two Manhattan psychoanalysts who had grown estranged from their bucolic property after a difficult earlier build, the project sets itself an unusual brief:…
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Tiny House Price Breakdown: $8K vs $100K | The Real Difference

A $5,000 tiny house and a $95,000 tiny house both arrive on a truck — but one is a metal shell, and one is a custom home on wheels with sage-green cabinetry and polished concrete countertops. The difference between them…
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A Clifftop Home Perched High Above the Ocean in New Zealand (House Tour)

Inside a clifftop home perched high above the ocean in New Zealand, Te Whau by Herbst Architects offers a deeply considered response to coastal living, where architecture heightens the rituals of retreat, gathering and connection to place. Located on Waiheke…
Architecture

Communal Living under One Roof: Plank Houses of the Pacific…

The Kwakwakaʼwakw Haida Nation, and Chinook Indian Nation are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, inhabiting regions that extend from present-day British Columbia to Washington and Oregon. Their societies were traditionally organised around large extended kin groups and complex…