I share this here for the simple reason that I like it!
I’ll leave it to TreeHugger to expand on its actual merits.
Built on Stilts: Tom Kundig’s Sol Duc Cabin
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A straw bale building that looks like a building
Let me own up. I’m a Grand Designs nut. And every so often on the programme, someone builds a house of straw (bales). They generally go with a composting toilet and a banner suggesting we all go back to a pre-industrial age.
That’s why this remarkably mainstream-looking structure caught my attention. It belongs in a 21st century vernacular, not a medieval one.
An iceberg shaped home in the middle of Tokyo, by Sanpei Junichi
On The Corner House
I have a soft spot for things Japanese. In particular, I find modern Japanese architecture exciting. How about this, for a triangular site?:
The full story is at Design Milk.