Designed by Balance Associates Architects, the Rainbow Rock house design blurs the distinction between indoor and outdoor space. Inspired by the site’s natural beauty, natural materials such as granite, cedar and stucco were chosen to reinforce the inside/outside concept from the exterior to the interior.

The Gherkin Building, by London-based architect Norman Foster, is a magnificent, 180 meters tall office building located in 30 st. Mary Axe, London, UK.

Created by Japanese Kiyonobu Nakagame Architects, this 148.95 sq. meters wooden house was placed along the site in relation to the density of neighboring houses.

Created by Japanese Kiyonobu Nakagame Architects, this villa is facing the pacific ocean with mountains as a backdrop, located in Boso Peninsula east of Tokyo, Japan.

Eden is a straw bale home and office located in Wilmington, Vermont. Designed by LineSync Architecture, this two storey house is based on a simple post frame structure of heavy timbers wrapped with straw bale, offering higher insulation and a more free and organic home design.

This fine modern architecture design, by Collins and Turner Architects, is situated on the edge of an 80 meters sandstone cliff in Dover Heights, NSW, Australia, facing amazing panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean.

Reconstructed from recently salvaged timbers of a vintage 1700’s barn, this family home has succeeded in creating an old rural board-and-batten barn style look & feel with a touch of contemporary shabby-chic.

Designed by Japanese Architects Kiyonobu Nakagame, this house has an unusual zigzag-shaped form made from wood and steel. The house is a two stories home, which is designed as a one big room containing bedroom and even bathroom within.

This amazingly beautiful tree house design can be found in Kamishihoro, Hokkaido, Japan’s second largest island. This treehouse seems as if it has been taken out from a fairytale winter wonderland.

The Cloister House is a low, horizontal Japanese home, structured around an inner courtyard with no columns at all.

Designed by Portland-based architecture firm, Kaplan Thompson Architects, the Falmouth Flyer house is an excellent example of ‘modern design meets sustainability’.

Michael Wielgus from Krakow, Poland, sent us his dome-shaped, wooden treehouse, which was inspired by the geodesic dome structures of American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller.

Located in a forest of Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine in Mazama, Washington, the Foster Loop Cabin is a beautiful retreat designed by Washington-based architecture firm, Balance Associates.

You come home early in the evening after work and your house comes to life; the garage door opens, the driveway illuminated, the blinds are raised and the alarm system is deactivated with a single push of a button.