Architects: Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor
Location: Gudbrandsjuvet, Norway
Design Period: 2004-2007
Construction period: 2007-2008
Client: Knut Slinning
Project Architects: Jan Olav Jensen (pl), Børre Skodvin, Torunn Golberg Helge Lunder, Torstein Koch; Thomas Knigge
Budget: 1.000.000 EURO (US $1.28 millions)
Constructed Area: 800 sqm
Photographs: JSA
Architects Homepage: www.jsa.no
One of the local residents at Gudbrandsjuvet, Knut Slinning, is building a landscape hotel. The idea emerged at another site, Aurland, but was not realized there.

Basically each room is a detached small independent house with one, or sometimes two of the walls constructed in glass. The landscape in which these rooms are …

DRA Family House, A-1160 wien Austria
project management: erwin stättner
building inspection: erwin stättner
land and effective area: 650 m2 / 250 m2
construction: stahlkonstruktion
most important materials: stahl, beton, glas, aluminium
start of planning: 2001
completion: 2003
photographer: herta hurnaus
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This is an eco-friendly dome homes from Solaleya. Imagine a circular loft with plenty of skylights and a solar array on top, gently rotating to orient itself towards the sun, and you have the basic idea. It’s like an eco-friendly update to the Chemosphere in LA. The durable domes are constructed using only FSC-certified wood and have been proven to withstand category 5 hurricanes and earthquakes up to magnitude 8 on the MSK scale.

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Nisha Bar Lounge was designed to creating an entertainment space for adults of 30 years old and over. The place houses a lounge and a restaurant-bar area connected by a lobby. The lobby, predominantly in dark tones since it is covered with black metal plates and “terrazo” floor, is illuminated by psychedelic images displayed by eight plasma screens.

The lounge walls are completely covered in wood and sourrounded by large windows overlooking to a forest; within this space there are several small sets of living rooms, each one with a plasma …

This Lifepod is a new design idea of modular prefabricated home by Korean-born architect Kyu Che. Lifepod is versatile, collapsable, lightweight, and nomadic, fully functioning high-tech mini home capsule. Offering the best of 21st century automotive, aeronautic, nautical, and RV technologies, this small prefab house plans fits into a 40 ft container and can be shipped worldwide within weeks.

Mimicking terrestrial mammals, the structural system of this unique prefab home is a quadrupedal fuselage, which allows adjusting the Lifepod to the surrounding landscape instead of the other way around.

“Kyu Che architectural …