French architect Patrick Partouche created a house built of 8 shipping containers. Now it’s a home for a family in Lille, France. This spacious house with a total area of 208 sq. m  has floor-to-ceiling windows with enormous metal blinds that may easily turn the building into a fortress when shut, making the place safe to leave. However, the owners use blinds only for protection against sun heat. ...

Schonberg Residence – a unique structure of the architectural studio of American Dialect Design Architects, has long been suspended over the existing garage is quite a traditional home. The unusual house designed for the life of one family, located in Charlotte, NC and breaks all the conventions and architectural “convention” of the area. An ingenious use of simple, complementary...

In the modern interior living room, bedroom or office,there is always room for a small piece,and even for a few pieces of sweet pastry.So, probably,have decided in the Japanese studio Mizmiz Design,and hence showcased Tokyo design week 2011 a draft of the original table on Cake Table.The triangular shape of the table design alludes to a piece of cake,cut a huge knife from a large,whole dessert.Each...

Modern living meets subterranean splendor in this gorgeous home nestled inside of a 15,000-square foot sandstone cave in Festus, Missouri. Built by Curt and Deborah Sleeper, the underground abode features modern interior spaces that blend with the beautiful unfinished sandstone walls to create an incredible example of energy-efficient architecture. Geothermal heating and smart passive design keeps...

One of the most important things to do while furnishing your living room is to get good sofa sets. These are some very creative sofa designs. You can lie, lounge, rest, or sleep on them. They are much more original than a traditional sofa. They come in all different colors, textures, shapes, sizes, and materials. 15 most creative and unique modern sofa design examples! Now all you have to do is pick...

Recently some guy decided that perfect way to decorate his 90 square foot apartment was by plastering its walls with 25,000 ping pong balls. For some reason I think he was on to something. The apartment is a small loft attached to the offices of Snarkitecture, the architecture firm for which that silly ping pong lover—whose name is Daniel Arsham—works. The place isn’t really used for much beyond...

The Loftcube is designed as a small, mobile living space that can be easily relocated on a whim. Its light-weight structure can be placed on a roof via a freight helicopter or construction crane. The Loft Cube project is based on the idea of exploiting large, flat and hitherto unused city-centre rooftops. In this way, Werner Aisslinger, a designer in Berlin, is seeking to open up a new, sunny environment...

A young couple with two children from Mexico City who after living in a conventional home wanted to change to one integrated to nature. This amazing house was build in 2006 by Arquitectura Orgánica. The goal of this project was to make it feel like an internal inhabitant of a snail, like a mollusk moving from one chamber to another, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister.  It’s...

There are not words to describe this prison. It is the dirtiest, darkest, and most overcrowded place. The conditions of the ‘streets’ inside the prison were broken and grimy and always covered with trash and dirty water. Behind the ominous barbed wire and high concrete walls of the Santa Martha Acatitla prison in Mexico City, sits a cheerful nursery school with colorful walls, a maze of...

Certainly one of the most radical boat designs I’ve ever seen. The two companies unveiled a real-size model of the 38-metre wide vessel late last month in Ancona, Italy. Unusually the width of the yacht is almost two thirds of its 190ft length. Instead of a traditional tapered stern, the WHY has a sheared off appearance, with a 30metre ‘beach’ running along the back. This gives access...