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If You Don't Like Your House, Just Rearrange All the Rooms

Brazilian architects design a house with a moving roof and five modules, which can be moved to suit whims and seasons.READ»

A Manmade Mountain, Covered in Apartments

BIG architects recently completed a housing complex billed as "beacon for architectural possibility" and a "feat of residential engineering."READ»

Brad Pitt's Foundation Unveils 14 Home Designs for New Orleans

Pitt's foundation, Make it Right, eventually hopes to build 150 houses in the Ninth Ward--completely remaking the blighted neighborhood.READ»

Dwell and Marmol Radziner's Slick Prefab House, but Will It Sell?

The design magazine and the architecture firm team up for another modern home.READ»

Iconic Pre-Fab Provider Closes Shop

Michelle Kaufmann Designs, a path-breaking seller of modern, eco-friendly pre-fab homes, is folding due to the anemic housing market and the credit crisis at large. Kaufmann's firm became synonymous with the contemporary ...READ»

What Exactly Is a "Passive House" and Why Should I Care?

The handsome home you see above represents the bleeding edge in green design: It's a "passive house," designed by Toronto's Paul Raff Studio. With "automated shades, passive ventilation and mature deciduous ...READ»

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Carl Verdickt's Greenhouse Grows On Us

Modern architecture is no stranger to the greenhouse effect--the heat trapping ability of glass is what has often rendered so many modernist house by Mies van der Rohe and others extraodinariy expensive to cool. But this ...READ»