Norway’s Nature House: A Cob Home Inside a 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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The Alpine Shelter below Skuta: A 2015 Building Story
A warm window can change an entire mountain photograph. Below Skuta in Slovenia’s Kamnik–Savinja Alps, an angular shelter sits among pale r...
Skuta’s Alpine Shelter: Three Modules on a Mountain
From outside, the shelter below Skuta looks like a small angular object placed among the rocks. Inside, the idea becomes clearer: a narrow ...
A Concrete Cabin in Graubünden: Familiar Form, Unexpected Material
At first glance, Refugi Lieptgas has the reassuring outline of a small Alpine hut. Move closer and the familiar horizontal walls become som...
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13 Igloo-Inspired Shelters, Sculptures and Unusual Designs
A dome is a wonderfully adaptable shape. In this collection, it appears in coloured ice, snow, reused containers and a transparent tent. Th...
20 Small Houses in Winter Landscapes: Colour, 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 by Bureau A: A Small Alpine Shelter Disguised as a Rock
At first glance, ANTOINE looks like a large rock left in an alpine landscape. Then an opening gives it away. Inside the rough-looking shell...
Giuliano Mauri’s Tree Cathedrals: Architecture, Growth and Open Sky
Repeated wooden columns create the rhythm of a cathedral aisle, but the setting is a landscape rather than an enclosed stone building. Giul...
Antarctic Research Stations: Architecture for Work and Daily Life
Antarctic stations combine laboratories, living spaces and the practical demands of a remote environment. Their appearance makes more sense...