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    The Elevated Swimming Pool At This Hotel Has A Window In It

    When noa* (network of architecture), were asked to re-design Hotel Hubertus that sits at the foot of a ski and hiking area in Valdaora, Italy, they included a new 82 foot (25m) swimming pool. The pool sits almost 40 feet (12m) ...
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    Tiny Alpine Cabin Rewards Mountaineers Who Reach its Stunning Yet Wild Heights

    The Julian Alps that stretch from Italy to Slovenia are a beautiful yet unforgiving landscape that seems impossible to build on. Despite all odds, Ljubljana-based studio OFIS Arhitekti succeeded in placing a rugged alpine cabin on remote Mount Kanin that ...
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    The Lucky Knot Bridge Opens In Changsha, China

    This bright red pedestrian bridge named Lucky Knot, has recently been unveiled in. Designed by NEXT Architects, the bridge gets its name and inspiration from the traditional Chinese knot. Here’s a look at the design inspiration and a rendering of what ...
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    This Small Backyard Guest House Is Big On Ideas For Compact Living

    This contemporary 264 square foot guest house, designed by Avava Systems, was pre-fabricated and brought to the client’s property as just 64 flat-packed components. It was then assembled from start to finish in just six weeks, with a kitchen, bathroom, ...
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    Tiny Sci-Fi-Esque Pod Cabins Make the California Desert Look like an Alien Planet

    A series of tiny pods have descended on the high desert outside Joshua Tree National Park, making the bizarrely beautiful landscape look almost like an alien world. The micro-cabins are the brainchild of artist Andrea Zittel, who installed ten of ...
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    Autonomous Tent Cocoon

    The word ‘tent’ does not quite call to mind a sense of permanence or even a whole lot of free space, but all the same, people and companies like the Autonomous Tent Co. based out of Colorado are turning out ...
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    Let’s Go Glamping at the AutoCamp

    Sunset Magazine tours 11 modern “glampgrounds”, a portmanteau of glamorous campgrounds. They show one glampground full of custom Airstream trailers,AutoCamp Russian River. This is a concept that we have discussed on TreeHugger for years: if you are going to live ...
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    New Finnish Sauna Lets Men and Women Let Off Steam Together

    Steaming in a sauna is an essential part of Finnish culture, but the number of public saunas is said to be in decline. A new sauna in Helsinki has been built to help combat this. Designed to attract tourists, the ...
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    Proyecto Chacras; Pop up Productive housing

    Natura Futura Arquitectura + Colectivo Cronopios; seeks to create a new kernel within the community by reactivating this way the area, turn the omelet, pass of the moments of anxiety and uncertainty to a transformation from the basics, whose social ...