eco Tag

Desert home in Iran

Love the minimalist design with Solar! ------------------------ Tesla is revolutionizing the way we power and build our homes – and architects are taking note. Hot on the heels of Tesla’s eagerly awaited solar roof, Tehran-based BMDesign Studios designed Alavi House – a home for Isfahan, Iran that will be finished with...

Beautiful Houses Built with Shipping Containers

Back to amazing Containers. ------------------------ We’ve seen some quirky homes, but this one may just take the cake. Made entirely from shipping containers, this home overlooking Lake Travis is absolutely beautiful. Here’s a look inside. Melissa and Tony own Emerie Custom Homes in Lago Vista, Texas. They specialize...

Massive shipping container shopping center

Shipping containers can be green shopping too! ------------------------ Nearly 300 shipping containers may soon be given a new lease on life as a massive pop-up shopping center in downtown Warsaw, Poland. Designed by local architecture practice Szcz and commissioned by investor Nowa Epoka Handlu, the cargotecture proposal would transform a 2.6-acre...

Celina House

Doesn't have to be large to to be architecturally stunning. ------------------------ A little house built on a piece of land in the neighborhood of Santa Celina, in the south of Mar del Plata. The area is known for its abundance of trees and greenery. The property is centrally...

House on Lac Charlebois

Coreten and wood, what could go wrong? ------------------------ On a wooded lot on the shore of Lake Charlebois, our clients wanted to build a contemporary house, luminous and open to the nature. They wanted most of the spaces of the house to be level with the land. ...

Laif House / BAUEN

This is what this site is all about! ----------------------------- What If? This question starts the search, what if we build a house that can be moved from one place to another, with recyclable materials and low carbon footprint? A SUSTAINABLE house. A low cost recycled metal was...

Contree Experience Room

Great mix of steel and wood in a honeycomb pattern. --------------- The Contree experience room arises from the need of creating a sales space for a residential condominium project, it's site being a priviledge location in the city of Medellín, Colombia, surrounded by forests and with beautiful...

Bond House

How much more open air living can you get? ----------------------- The cross is one of the oldest diagrams of space organization in architectural history. Bond is designed through the interplay of intersecting elements coming together to shape plane-fields for gathering and recreation on all levels- a junction that unifies...