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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.
Located on one of the many islands dotting The Archipelago in Georgian Bay, Ontario, this private boathouse and docking facility designed by Kevin Weiss of Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited exemplifies a quiet and precise modernism.
The Micro Cluster Cabins are located in at the mouth of the Oslo fjord in the region of Vestfold in Norway.
“Ensure environmental sustainability” included improving sanitation facilities is one of the eight “Millennium Development Goals” by United Nations. According to that, from 2000 to 2015, the number of people without access to basic sanitation will decrease by 50%
This project, Leaf House was inspired by Brazil´s Indian architecture, perfectly suited for the hot and humid climate where it stands, Angra dos Reis, one hour drive south of Rio de Janeiro.
Wanderer’s Lodge Santander, a small pavilion gently placed amongst existing trees in the garden of an extraordinary property in Cantabria, northern Spain.
Czech architecture firm Atelier 8000 has proposed a unique take on a typical mountain accommodation – and the Rubik’s Cube-like designs are spectacular, reports the Daily Mail.
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.
The pyramid viewpoint was realised as part of the Scottish Scenic Routes competition, an initiative by the Scottish government with the aim of showcasing young design practices based in Scotland.
Tree House Creations built this tree house completely using local wood. A lot of the time for this project was spent peeling the bark off of the trees that were sourced for the development. Everybody involved was devoted to do this and complete the design.
Seljord Watchtower Telemark: the myth about a sea serpent in the lake of Seljord has become an integral part of how the local people of Telemark conceive their majestic landscape.
Knoll Ridge Café is located at Whakapapa Ski Field on Mt. Ruapehu, Tongariro National Park. Situated on the side of a mountain the commercial ski field is also sited on what is New Zealand’s largest active volcano.
At the request of Isabelle de Beaufort, we have created a stage set for her “Neige de Culture” project on the Serre-Chevalier ski slopes.
Glenn Murcutt and the Wisdom of the Elders – Grounded Aesthetic article by Lindsay Johnston – Australian architecture: Richard Leplastrier, Peter Stutchbury: , New South Wales buildings
This project has evolved the building type, the small weekender, by answering a simple question – how does one go into a forest and use the forms of the ecology to build a house?
A Photographer’s Studio Over a Boathouse on Stony Lake is a re-imagination of the archetypal glass house in a landscape in the Canadian Shield.
As a “portal” to San Diego Bay’s ecologically unique Sweetwater Marsh, the new Administrative Headquarters for the US Fish and Wildlife Service provides a collaborative facility where in-house wildlife biologists and environmental education specialists perform work and analysis within the habitat.
Yucca Crater, HDTS Building, Mojave Desert design, Joshua Tree National Park, by Ball Nogues Studio: High Desert Test Sites structure project