Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's mansion in the most expensive town in the US...
An Atherton, California mansion just sold for $35.2 million.The 18,000-square-foot home was owned by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, who died in 2018.Atherton is the most expensive zip code in the US,...
View ArticleThese treehouse tiny homes were inspired by Sesame Street and Minions and...
An Austrian architecture firm designed modular treehouses, called Bert.The quirky designs are inspired by cartoons, like Minions and Sesame Street.Designers also see the homes as a way to combat "lazy...
View Article16 houses built in seemingly impossible locations
From remote private islands to hilltops that seem impossible to access, homes can be found in extreme locations around the globe.A monastery on a Bhutan rock face houses monks, some of whom don't...
View ArticleGoogle's Silicon Valley HQ has a new 31,000-square-foot amenity-packed floor...
Google's Mountain View, California headquarters opened a more than 31,000-square-foot area inspired by the area's history of salt mining in 2019.The floor is a place for Googlers to hang out, eat, or...
View Article2 tech founders are selling their $13 million home outside San Francisco that...
A married couple of tech founders are selling their Marin County home for $13 million, Bloomberg reported.Andrea Chavez and Daniel Putterman together cofounded the pet-tracking company...
View ArticleA 'breathing' $400 million supertall skyscraper is being built in Dubai....
A $400 million skyscraper being built in Dubai will give the impression that it "breathes," as CNN reported.Wasl Tower's facade will have ceramic fins illuminated by pulsating lighting to make the...
View ArticleA designer created a $3,300 'temple of poop': a composting toilet with a view...
The Bioloo is a new take on sustainability and composting toilets.Compost from the toilet is used to fertilize the roof garden on top of the structure, which also sends floral smells down to the...
View ArticleA former US Navy vessel turned $800,000 houseboat called 'the Evil Eye' is on...
A houseboat once owned by author Shel Silverstein is on the market in the Bay Area.The 1,200-square-foot home is listed for $783,000.Before it belonged to Silverstein, the boat was a World War II...
View ArticleAn architect in China created a wearable shield worn like a backpack designed...
Chinese designer Sun Dayong created a design for a shield that protects wearers from contracting COVID-19, the coronavirus disease.The shield is called "Be a Batman," and inspired by the wings of a...
View ArticleThese 400-square-foot tiny houses in a village for the homeless were made by...
Austin company Icon is using a 3D printer and low-cost materials to construct houses for the homeless.Icon will build six tiny homes in Austin's Community First Village.The company's 3D printer can...
View ArticleHoney's cofounder just bought a $60 million 'Sky Garden' Bel Air mansion...
In November, PayPal bought online coupon company Honey for $4 billion.Honey cofounder George Runa just bought a $60 million home in Los Angeles, The Wall Street Journal reported. The nine-bedroom, 14...
View ArticleA historic California building that has been a restaurant, a home, and a...
Stokes Adobe, a home and former restaurant in Monterrey, California, is back on the market. The building is reportedly haunted, and has been attached to ghost stories since the tragic deaths of its...
View ArticleThis tiny home was designed to be dropped by a helicopter to give...
Norwegian designer Torstein Aa created Birdbox for visitors to experience Norway's Fjords and mountains.The design is like a bird house because it was intended to blend in with its surroundings and...
View ArticleLegendary architect Robert A.M. Stern on designing New York City's 'it'...
Robert A.M. Stern is one of New York City's most legendary architects.He designed 220 Central Park South, where hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin set a real estate record with his $238 million...
View Article2 architects are building a habitat to live on the moon. They're going into...
A Danish architecture firm is building a prototype for eventual lunar habitation, asking "what does it take to live on the moon?".Two architects will live in the prototype for a three month simulated...
View Article'Parc de la Distance': A maze-like park that looks like a fingerprint from...
To help residents of Vienna safely enjoy the outdoors as Austria begins to ease its coronavirus restrictions, Studio Precht has designed a brand new kind of park that incorporates social distancing...
View ArticleThe legendary architect who designed the $238 million NYC penthouse that...
Robert A.M. Stern is the legendary NYC architect behind 220 Central Park South, where hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin shattered the US real-estate record with his $238 million penthouse purchase in...
View ArticleAn architecture firm reimagined offshore oil rigs as new housing in a world...
Design firm XTU Architects created a concept for turning offshore oil rigs into housing.The concepts imagines a future in which the world is no longer dependent on oil, so the structures can be...
View ArticleThis 290-square-foot bungalow tiny home can be used off-the-grid and put in...
An Italian design firm created a 290-square-foot bungalow tiny home.The bungalow, called Casa Ojalá, can be rearranged into 1,000 different configurations.Casa Ojalá is also sustainable for off-grid...
View ArticleThis 36-square-foot mobile tiny home fits on the back of a rickshaw, and it's...
An Indian architect developed this prototype for a tiny mobile home.The design uses vertical space over horizontal space for places where land is expensive and difficult to buy.It's designed to house...
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