This looks like something right out of a fantasy book. Somewhere in Vermont, a couple of kids had not just one tree house to share, but three separate houses of their own that they could go to and from with a ladder and...

This is Domus Civita, a home in Italy built in the 14th century and purchased by new owners in 2011. Studio F remodeled the house, which consists of three floors above ground, but that's not all.However the most interest...

This bridge that might have been designed by stuntman Evel Knievel lies in Sarajevo, Bosnia. It's called the Festina Lente Bridge--a name that means "make haste slowly." Amila Hrustic designed it for pedestrian use, so p...

The public poorhouses that you read about in Dickens novels are gone, having been replaced with welfare hotels, housing projects, and homeless shelters. The Knox County Poorhouse in Ohio was once such an institution.Cons...

Vince Donovan has been a fan of The Lord of the Rings his entire life, and has a collection of Tolkien memorabilia to prove it. Now he has a proper house to display it! Donovan hired architect Peter Archer to design a To...

This freaky and beautiful bridge is located in Purmerend, the Netherlands. The lower level is for bicycles and the top level is for pedestrians:This deck was designed as a pendulum over the water, so that the slope could...

A zoomorphic building is one shaped like an animal. The list of ten such buildings at Pets Lady has a dog, a sheep, a rabbit, two elephants, and five cats! That's understandable, because who could resist a building shape...

In an article last week, we read about how Ed Bernays convinced architects and builders to include bookshelves in new homes, in order to sell more books. There's a big difference between including them and designing a ho...

No ordinary dog house will do for your special pooch. Why, the Papillon is descended from the dogs of the Kings of France! That's why Kenya Hara commissioned architects to create themes appropriate for individual breeds,...

[http://youtu.be/NECN6tpwxCY] Last year, Adrienne told us about the narrowest house being built in Warsaw, Poland. Architect Jakub Szczesny wanted to convert a 3-foot-wide void between two buil...