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The website features a selection of the best new countryside building designs around the world, by respected designers. Examples include bird reserve structures such as hides and visitor centres.
In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary nature architecture projects on this international website. Our focus is on internationally-significant architectural works.
A 113 sqm vertical garden in new restaurant/gallery/concert venue next to the river in Belem, Lisbon. It wraps around the kitchen inserted into this renovated 1940s pavilion. Several windows cuts through the plant surface.
Design: Architektonicka kancelar Burian – Krivinka. The new entrance building into Punkva Caves has replaced an old unsuitable structure. The characteristic feature of the building is a gently bent roof, which must withstand boulder falls from the surrounding limestone cliff.
Architect: Niall Mclaughlin Architects. The primitive hut has a long anthropological pedigree as well as an architectural one. This is a sophisticated primitive hut, worthy of Murcutt or Leplastrier but set not on the edge of the Bush but on a Hampshire lake.
Design: Kolman Boye Architects. House on the island of Vega in the Norwegian archipelago not far from the polar circle. The site is distinctive for its grand and harsh northern landscape with wide panoramas of the Norwegian Sea and the jagged mountains rising from it.
Design: Lang Architecture. Encompassing 131 acres of lush Catskills forest this project features 26 architect-designed dwellings meticulously crafted from locally-sourced, sustainable materials. The two-story, 2,800-sqft model residence uses distinctive wood details throughout.
London art-architecture studio atmos has just opened Dreamscape, a new type of hotel room for a new type of Ice Hotel – the ‘365’ at ICEHOTEL Sweden, which will offer its guests icy escapes all year round.
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This all-year cabin for a family of five is designed to accommodate changes in family composition in coming years. The cabin building is gently placed on the slight slope of the site, where the volume creates small microclimate zones with beneficial sun conditions for outdoor activities and easy access from the interior.
Design: Tetsuo Kondo Architects
Delightful swept route through the trees in Estonia: “In the elegant woods of Kadriorg, we added a path. A path which relies on the forest as it flutters through the woods with over 300 years of age.”
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. The Røldal family vacation home is recognisable for its compact, defined and geometric shape. The objective of preserving as much of the surrounding landscape possible as a high priority resulted in the design of two volumes.
More photos – a group of students from architecture, design and art universities spent 10 days in a summer workshop. They built 3 floating structures: a shelter, a fireplace and a sauna as a response to the changing environment of the area.
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This building is anchored in an innovative interpretation of nature’s fantastic dimensions and the dramatic experience of mountaineering. The design of the building is based on its function as a mountaineering center and gathering place for both locals and visitors.
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This Norwegian holiday home has a clean-cut expression. The main wing houses mainly bedrooms and divides into two branches. The shift in program and different levels lets the building adapt to the slope.
This tiny house is made up of three main spaces: blue for sleeping, psychologically most suitable for a good night´s sleep ; white for the day zone ; red for the wood-burning stove and kitchenette.
The Squish Studio design by Saunders Architecture is just outside the small town of Tilting on the eastern end of Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Tilting is known for its strong Irish culture and its recent designation by Parks Canada as a National Cultural Landscape District of Canada.
Design: Dualchas Architects. The site is located in Northwest Skye, overlooking Loch Dunvegan. It manifests itself as a contradiction: far reaching views to the Northeast and harsh winds from the Southwest. The constant is the horizon.
Design: Werner Tscholl
This bold concrete structure juts out like an erratic boulder, 2474 m above sea level. The “Ice Cave” inside the museum pays tribute to the pioneers of the High Alpine Road.
Poised on the ridges and rolling fields where the Beartooth Mountains touch Montana’s big sky, this new building will open to the public on June 17, offering a “uniquely resonant experience of great classical music, nestled among sculptures and buildings that hug the land like natural formations.”