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more about #homes NotChoinski: What it needs are minarets. more » Oyabun: Can I get that at IKEA? more » asolidvoid: I actually met with the architect of this project recently. A couple interesting notes about the project, not mentioned in the article, are that the ... more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: I kind of like it, let's see and jet crash into my roof. more » dantheman12: What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators. more » Monty: What, no popcorn ceiling to give it that old school 70's look? As I understand it (I am hardly an expert) in the Outback in Australia a significant n... more » Alfisted: Big deal. My house is a pit, too. more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I take it that blue bowl is some kind of hot tub, complete with wood burning stove to heat the water? more » Kaiser-Machead: The Shire's always up in a stir when Frank Lloyd Took takes his whimsy to the landscape. You should see FallingBrandywine. 'Tis a sight, to be certain. more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I want to live inside a giant dodecahedron .. #kleinbottlehouse more » AmphetamineCrown: I must be a total Luddite anti-aesthete or something. I look at this and think "how the hell would you clean the windows?" And god knows you'd know ... more » BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: Ah, so this would be the entrance to the house. It all makes sense now... #kleinbottlehouse more » Nick: yeah, i called about the home in picture one. the realtor said it was under contract, but would only give me the initials of the interested party. O... more » .357: One with no stairs. more » Project_J187: How did Scott Devore not win? Sure, all he did was submit an actual not shopped photo of a home, but his second submission was turned 90 degrees. On... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Seriously Vince, you're gonna be in a world of hurt if you keep covering that fan. Chips don't like heat. Also cat hair is a bitch in computer cases. more » Kaiser-Machead: I used to want to live in space, until I read Leroy's take on using the bathroom. I personally require a more comfortable facility to use as an everyd... more » Pessimippöpötåmus: brianbarron's submission is just a picture of FLW's Falling Water, isn't it? No doubt it's a dream house, but not a photoshop. *I should've just taken... more » tek_nic: Um... there are a couple there that make me wonder what's eligible for a photoshop contest. Don't get me wrong - I would love to live in a Grumman Goo... more » robot-shmobot: I never knew so many people shared my dream of living in space. I also didn't know so many people wanted to live in the death star.. Would yours have ... more » -
#architecture
This Hobbit Hole Has a Serious View
Despite being almost completely embedded in the side of a hill, this modern home in Switzerland has a seriously stunning view. You can almost picture Julie Andrews (distracted with spinning and singing) crashing through the window into your living room. More » -
#architecture
I Always Wanted to Live In a Stealth Plane
The Klein Bottle House. According to the World Architecture Festival Awards, it's the best home of 2009. F-117 pilots, dorky Tron fanboys, and aliens all through the galaxy would agree. I'm in one of those categories. More » -
#architecture
10 Houses Built From Unlikely Materials
James May's Lego abode may be shaping up to be spectacular, but he's far from the first person to build a house out of something novel. Here are ten more amazing homes with, shall we say, unorthodox constituents. More » -
#homes
What Kind of Home Would Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Live In?
One without a whole bunch of ramps, surprisingly. The interior has living spaces and working spaces, housing both a lab and a crazy wooden maze of banisters and staircases. More » -
#photoshopcontest
22 Dream Homes That Range From the Fanciful to the Insane
For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to design your dream home, no matter how impractical it may be. It turns out that a lot of you want to live on the Death Star. More » -
#architecture
Why Doesn't Balancing Barn Home Fall On That Little Girl?
I don't want it to fall on her, but I don't understand how this Balancing Barn building is gonna work, if 50% of it hangs over a slope, in "free space." More » -
#gross
Electronic House's Home of the Year Makes Me Want to Die
Ever wake up in a fitful cold sweat with the cutting realization that there're certain areas in your home where you can't watch TV!!??. Then Electronic House's Home of the Year is for you. More » -
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#architecture
UFO House Crash Lands Into Suburbia
What do you get when architects deconstruct a sphere? At least in this case, you get a house that looks a lot like a UFO. More » -
#architecture
Someday, I Want to Live in One of These Shipping Container Houses
Adam Kalkin is most recognizable for the shipping container coffee shop he designed last year for Illy. Now, Fast Company has a profile on Kalkin with a bunch of pics of his other structures. More » -
#architecture
This Might Be the Nicest Inhabitable Cave Ever
Some family out in Missouri decided five years ago to purchase a cave and build their house in it...literally. This 17,000 sq.ft. house not only has three bedrooms, but a secondary party room and a performing stage (!?). More » -
#architecture
Rotating Houses Are Becoming a Luxury Trend, Not Just a Gimmick, Says The Economist
We've seen Dynamic Towers, the planned condo skyscraper in Dubai where every floor rotates independently. But according to The Economist, this Jetsons-esque way of living could become the next big thing in luxury housing. More » -
#architecture
Styrofoam Homes Are Typhoon-Resistant, Refillable with People or Coffee
Styrofoam homes may sound like a recipient for disaster, but Japan Dome House Co., Ltd. thinks they're the future. A future in which all of us will be hobbits or smurfs. Made with 7-inch-thick 100% expanded polystyrene foam modules, the company says that they don't have the maintenance problems of wood or metal structures, and they are "highly resistant" to earthquakes, fires, and typhoons. Still, the 480 domes at Aso Farm Land resort village in Kyushu look like a suburban community on Mos Eisley's outskirts or a world from Myst. More » -
#homefurnishings
Vile Mortadella Rug Gives Excuse to Say 'Hide the Sausage' in a Headline
Number two in an occasional series of crazy things to do with meat, this is Mortadella, one of four sausage-inspired rugs. The others in the series are (below, from left) Blood Sausage, Bierschinken and Salami. Made in Germany and available online, I think I can safely say that it's one of the Wurst rugs I've ever seen. *Sound of single gunshot followed by large thud* [Wurstteppich] More »
