Norway’s Nature House: Life Inside an Arctic Glass Dome
A glass dome on a snowy Norwegian island sounds like the setting for a fairy tale. Inside this one, the details are delightfully domestic:...
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Below Skuta: The Story of a Small Alpine Shelter
A warm window can change an entire mountain photograph. Below Skuta in Slovenia’s Kamnik–Savinja Alps, an angular shelter sits among pale ...
How the Skuta Alpine Shelter Works in Three Modules
From outside, the shelter below Skuta looks like a small angular object placed among the rocks. Inside, the idea becomes clearer: a narrow...
Refugi Lieptgas: A Swiss Cabin Cast in Concrete
At first glance, Refugi Lieptgas has the reassuring outline of a small Alpine hut. Move closer and the familiar horizontal walls become so...
Beyond Igloos: Five Ways to Build a Dome-Shaped Scene
A dome is a wonderfully adaptable shape. In this collection, it appears in coloured ice, snow, reused containers and a transparent tent. T...
Winter Houses: Five Photographs of Shelter and Scale
A small house can change an entire landscape photograph. Add one warm window or a patch of red paint to a broad field of snow, and the eye...
ANTOINE: The Rock-Shaped Alpine Cabin by BUREAU A
At first glance, ANTOINE looks like a large rock left in an alpine landscape. Then an opening gives it away. Inside the rough-looking shel...
Giuliano Mauri’s Tree Cathedrals: Architecture That Grows
Repeated wooden columns create the rhythm of a cathedral aisle, but the setting is a landscape rather than an enclosed stone building. Giu...
Antarctic Research Stations: Building on Ice
Antarctic stations combine laboratories, living spaces and the practical demands of a remote environment. Their appearance makes more sens...