With the exception of British artist Stephen Turner, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who can claim that their place of residence and work is a giant floating wooden egg moored on a riverbank.
Minneapolis' foreclosure-ravaged northern neighborhoods will be the site of 100 affordable, green single-family homes built over the next five years on city-owned vacant lots.
Renzo Piano, the architect behind Europe's tallest skyscraper, has long been preoccupied with minimalist living. Now, he's completed his first micro-home, a 'technically perfect and aesthetically attractive refuge' named Diogene.
Sustainability-obsessed starchitect Bjarke Ingels reveals the design for LEGO House, a garden-topped 'experience center' to be built in the plastic brick company town of Billund, Denmark.
Skanska offers a fantastic, infographic-based explanation of why the world's toughest green building standard, the Living Building Challenge, is so difficult to obtain (and how they obtained it).
A Sonoma County father finds the best way to cut his daily commute along with a carbon-intensive joint custody situation is to buy a townhome directly next to his ex-wife and cut a hole through a shared wall.
A student team from Ontario's Endeavour Centre set out to be build a self-reliant, solar-powered spec home and wind up creating Canada's Greenest Home in the process.
Talk about a mobile home ... One part nautical-styled circus caravan, one part barf-inducing micro-home, 'Wheel House' is the dizzying creation of acrobatic British performance duo, Acrojou.
Based in the wilds of western Maryland, bespoke tiny home specialist Hobbitat creates stunning, small-sized dwellings using primarily reclaimed and recycled materials.
Sure, Tetris is totally awesome at keeping idle hands and brains preoccupied. But who knew that the Moscow-borne video puzzle could inspire a micro housing concept?
Celebrating 10 years in business, MIO breaks out a fresh slew of 'green desire'-sparking products including customizable stools and lampshades that can be arranged in over 36 configurations.
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Newark-based Combo Colab returns to the Designboom Mart at ICFF with a clever, milk crate-based stackable storage stool dubbed XTOOL.