Preston Outdoor Education Station, Elmdale, Kansas

Preston Outdoor Education Station, Elmdale, Kansas

Camp Wood is a high quality outdoor education for youth throughout Kansas, USA, in an endangered ecosystem at Tallgrass Prairie, KS. The graduate level Design+Make Studio at Kansas State University developed robust forms and spaces within this beautiful landscape.

Sawmill Shelter AA Hooke Park building, Dorset

Sawmill Shelter AA Hooke Park Building

The Saw-mill Shelter, located in the Architectural Association estate, was designed and built by students with the help of the school faculty and Arup engineers. Each lath carries up to two tonnes of tension, demonstrating the remarkable strength of wood.

Gemma Observatory Southern New Hampshire

Gemma Observatory Southern New Hampshire

Gemma Observatory Southern New Hampshire, rural North East American building design by Anmahian Winton Architects in the mountains this building sits at the end of a steep, half-mile gravel drive. It is situated at the center of a three-mile radius “dark” landscape with very little light pollution, USA.

Culardoch Shieling in the Cairngorms National Park

Culardoch Shieling

Design: Moxon Architects. Culardoch Shieling, a mountain hut in Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands, has been completed by Moxon Architects. Located at the foot of Culardoch, the remote new shieling (Scottish Gaelic term for hut) looks out across the expanse of the scenic upper Glen Gairn.

Arthur’s Cave Pop-up Hotel Cabin, Wales

Arthur’s Cave Pop-up Hotel Cabin at Castell y Bere | www.e-architect.com

Design: Miller Kendrick Architects: the cabin, known as ‘Arthur’s Cave’, is one of eight winning entries for the Epic Retreats competition. The project was part funded by the Welsh Government’s Tourism Product Innovation Fund.

Black Flying House: Czech Republic Cabin

Black Flying House

Architects: H3T Architekti

Imagine you walk through a forrest and pass an old railway bridge when you realize there is a black house, suspended from one of the arches. Would you dare to climb in?

Forestry Commission Campus Czech Republic

Forestry Commission Campus

Architects: CHYBIK+KRISTOF. The concept is based on incorporating the forest landscape into a five-finger building to create new relations between the inside office and the outside forest landscape

Lighthouse on Făgăraș Mountains in Romania

Lighthouse on Făgăraș Mountains

For an architect, the challenge is the fuel that keeps him alive. The architects accepted the challenge to design a shelter at 2,100 m in the Southern Carpathians on a tight budget. They asked to build it themselves!

Espaco Espelho d’Agua Lisbon, Belém

Espaco Espelho d'Agua Lisbon

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.

Punkva Caves Entrance building, Blansko

Punkva Caves Entrance Building

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.

The Fishing Hut, Hampshire, UK

Fishing Hut Hampshire

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.

Cottage on Vega Island, Norway Property

Vega Island house interior

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.

Hudson Woods House in Catskills Forest

Hudson Woods House in Catskills Forest

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.

Dreamscape at ICEHOTEL 365 Project

Dreamscape at ICEHOTEL 365 Sweden

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.