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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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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!
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.