Nature House in Arctic Norway: A Cob Home Inside a Glass Geodesic Dome
On the island of Sandhornøya in northern Norway, north of the Arctic Circle, a family lives in a cob house wrapped inside a glass geodesic ...
architecture
Skuta Bivouac, Slovenia: Building the 2015 Alpine Shelter for Climbers
At 2,045 metres below Skuta, the third-highest peak of Slovenia's Kamnik Alps, a small angular shelter now gives climbers a place to wai...
Alpine Shelter Skuta: OFIS and Harvard GSD’s Bivouac in the Kamnik Alps
High in Slovenia’s Kamnik Alps, below the 2,532-metre peak of Skuta, a sharp-edged little shelter clings to the rocks. Completed in 2015, t...
Refugi Lieptgas, Flims: A Swiss Log Cabin Cast in Concrete
On the edge of the forest at Flims, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, stands what looks like an old log hut half buried in snow. It is act...
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13 Unusual Igloos: Ice, Snow, Fridges, Books and Bubble Tents
The igloo is one of the cleverest buildings ever devised: a dome of compacted snow that can keep its occupants above freezing while the air ...
20 Little Houses in Winter Scenery: Tromsø, Lapland, Iceland and the Alps
A single red cabin under snow-covered peaks near Tromsø, a yellow house among frosted trees, a hunting lodge buried to its roof in the Dolo...
ANTOINE by Bureau A: A Pine Cabin Hidden Inside a Concrete Boulder
High above Verbier, at about 2,300 metres, a grey boulder sits on a field of fallen rock. Look closer and it has two small windows and a re...
Giuliano Mauri’s Tree Cathedral: The Cattedrale Vegetale in Italy
Rows of tall wooden lattice columns march through the woods like the aisles of a Gothic church, and inside each column a young tree is growi...
Antarctic Research Stations: Halley VI, Princess Elisabeth and Jang Bogo
Building in Antarctica means designing for hurricane-force winds, months of darkness, drifting snow and ice that moves under your feet. The ...