Persian architect, designer, CG artist and self-described artist Amin Moazzen is a man that has been designing surreal, otherworldly and seemingly impossible living spaces for the past handful of years. While each one of his…
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You Can Buy Steve McQueen’s Malibu Beach House For $12.2 Million
For a cool $12.2 million, you can own a piece of Hollywood history. Sotheby’s has recently listed the late Steve McQueen’s beachfront 5 bedroom, 5 bath Malibu home. Located on a private gated street, this sunwashed…
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ELEVATOR is like finding $10 in your pocket. It’s a welcome surprise each time it lands in your inbox. Every edition is filled with interesting, thought-provoking eye and brain candy from the corners of the web. It’s not the news news; you can get that elsewhere. It’s a collection of unique, compelling articles that give you interesting things to talk about. In the time it takes to ride an elevator, they’ll make a guy’s life richer.
This A-Frame Cabin Concept Literally Hangs Off a Cliff
If you’ve been a Cool Material for any amount of time, you know that we love A-Frame cabins whether they’re the small, homebuilt operations on private property or larger, complex-style mass-production options for resorts. One…
Pin-Up Houses DIY Gaia Container House
Tiny houses can cost upwards of a couple of hundred thousand dollars, which seems like overkill for undersized. The folks at Pin-Up Houses have something else in mind. Build your own with some affordable full…
Cabins on The Mountain
Although they’re not quite a reality, the Veliz Arquitecto-imagined, beetle-shaped Cabins on The Mountain would likely be built on in one of Cuba’s mountain ranges. The wooden cocoons sit on concrete platforms and boast open-view…
The Glass Link House Includes a Secret Whiskey Bar
Located in the Pacific Northwest just outside of Portland, the Glass Link House is an almost 8,000 square-foot behemoth of a home that was designed and built for a growing family with a passion for…
Hummer EV Virtual Garage House
The Hummer brand isn’t one we think about all that often, but that changed with the official announcement of the upcoming 1,000 horsepower Hummer Electric Vehicle. You can’t have an awesome electric truck without a…
Jimmy Fallon’s Gramercy Park Penthouse Triplex
We’ve seen our fair share of celebrity homes that have gone up for sale for huge amounts of money when the stars decided it was time for a change, but few of them perfectly capture…
Bivvi Portable A-Frame Cabin
While there are plenty of architectural designs and housing styles we love and would love to live in, when it comes to cabins, we’ll always love the A-Frame Cabins the most. If you want that…
An Original Futuro House is on Airbnb
The most famous architects of the 20th Century most certainly includes the likes of Saarinen, Gehry, Mendelsohn, Wright, Pei and Khan, but as we’ve said before, we’d be remiss not to mention Matti Suuronen and his Futuro…
The L.E.A.D. YEZO Retreat Is Something Straight Out of Fantasy Fiction
Nestled in the northern mountain range of Hokkaido, Japan, you’ll find YEZO, a small retreat design and built by the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design (aka L.E.A.D.), an international, multiple award-winning architecture design and…
Stipfold Angular Blackbird Cabin
While we’ve all jotted down notes and sketches for projects during night’s out among friends, few of them turn into anything more than unfettered creativity with the free-flowing exchange of ideas. The Stipfold Angular Blackbird…
The ‘Minimal Hut Collection’ Will Deliver 100 Different Micro Home Designs
Stemming from a recent design challenge to create “100 Huts in 100 Days”, California-based architectural and design studio Tooke & Co. has started fleshing out their already impressive portfolio with dozens of designs a week…
Johnny Depp’s $55.5 Million Estate For Sale
Just in case you have a bit of extra funds laying around, you might want to check out Johnny Depp’s humongous Provence’s Le Plan De La Tour (near Saint_Tropez) estate that’s now up for sale…
Annex Oppdal Diamond Cabin
A38 Arkitekter–aka A38 Architects–is a Norwegian architectural firm that’s been producing innovative spaces since their inception almost half a century ago. Their latest project “Annex Oppdal” was produced in collaboration with the local TV program…
Brutalist Architecture LEGO Models
When it comes to our personal favorite ways to pass the time, building things with LEGO bricks will always be near the top because the only limit is your imagination. We’re similarly fond of brutalist…
Frank Sinatra’s Villa Maggio Retreat is for Sale
Ol’ Blue Eyes sure knew how to party hard, but he also needed some down time, as exemplified by his choice of escape in the California desert. This $4.25 million house near Palm Desert (a…
Whale-Shaped Australian Underwater Discovery Centre
You don’t have to pull a Jonah to get in the belly of a whale. Okay, so this one’s not alive, and it probably doesn’t smell like rotting krill inside. London Architecture firm Baca Architects…
Pierre Cardin’s Bubble Palace
Although upon first glance, the Bubble Palace might look like an adobe playground on steroids, it’s actually quite the luxurious compound. Purchased in 1992 by recently deceased French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, it’s now up…
Amazon’s ‘The Helix’ East Coast HQ
Count on Amazon to take everyone’s money and then go and build a new HQ building that’s as unique as it is opulent. The double helix-style building will be located in Arlington, VA and will…