Posted June 5, 2008 
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Finally, green architecture is appreciated at its true value as a green home designed by Sarah Featherstone was sold for a record price of £7.2million the equivalent of $14.2 million. The structure is called Orchid House and it’s a part of the Lower Mill Estate, the project that has the purpose of turning a swamp into a 450 acres natural reserve.
Posted May 29, 2008 Comments(2) 
The renowned Croatian architects 3LHD have designed another great project called House V which is a fancy family house. The House V is placed near to the Medvednica mountain in Zagreb (Croatia’s capital) and it was built as a perfect house which will “satisfy the needs of a family”. The design of the House V was influenced by the landscape which is breathtaking. Check out the pictures and see if you would like to live there!
Posted May 17, 2008 Comments(1) 
Self-sufficiency is the need upon which designer Victor Vetterlein based his conceptual house, Reboot.
Posted April 18, 2008 Comments(4) 
As soon as it was revealed, Napa Prefab has managed to receive praises from everyone. This concept was designed by Rocio Romero and first was shown to the US public in Missouri and about a couple of months ago in Hudson Valley, New York. Now you can visit it on the West Coast, in northern San Francisco.
Rocio Romero is known for his extraordinary LV Home Series and the LV Prefab Home doesn’t make an exception. This fantastic house gives you 3,000 square feet of space in which you will find four bedrooms and 3 bathrooms among others. Also, LV Prefab Home features a pool warmed by the sun, but we are impressed by the idea of building it from prefabricated materials and by its very low pricing.
Posted April 3, 2008 Comments(0) 
Nowadays one of the best ideas for design and architecture are inspired from “greenery”. The mankind has realized that we have no choice than to start building structures that are environmental-friendly. If you were thinking that it will be hard to bring cool ideas you were wrong because green could provide cool and futuristic features.
Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture came up with the Passive Houses which they will unveil them at the Hem&Villa fair in Malmo, Sweden. These houses are made of massive walls meant to keep warm and windows that will distribute the heat all around the house. This technique was inspired from the native Americans who used it a few centuries ago.
The house that we bring you today was called Villa Atrium and it consists of a donut-like building and in the yard you will find a beautiful tree. The design of the Passive Homes combines the old with the modern in a very nice way and I expect them to become very popular among the house-builders.
Posted March 25, 2008 Comments(0) 
There are innovative contructions that are gaining more and more popularity - they are called domes. These half-spheres( I couldn’t think of another comparison) had bravely resisted to hurricanes and other natural disasters. One of the most famous buildings like these was build by Canadian Dome Industries in Red Deer, Alberta.
Another very cool dome is the home of the School of Communication Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina and the special thing is that it consists of three two-story domes with a diameter of 120 foot.
This strange looking structures are also present in Colorade where you can find a 5,600 square foot complex of domes. The last dome that you don’t have to miss, it’s Florida’s luxurious dome which might be the house of the future. All of the domes are best pictured in the gallery below.
Posted March 21, 2008 Comments(0) 
A house in the form of a space-ship was sold this week-end in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It has three bedrooms, six “landing gear” legs, square little windows and a retractable staircase, which, as one of the neighbors says, can come quite handy in disputes between spouses. He declared that one of the former owners pulled up the stairway and drove her husband’s truck underneath it. Her husband got stuck inside, as he couldn`t lower the stairs and exit.
Auctioneer Terry Posey seemed surprised that bidding for the 38-year-old house didn’t go higher, as the building attracted worldwide attention.
The person that won the auction is Pearl Johnson from Cincinnati, Ohio, and she declined to comment on her newest acquisition.
