'De Markies' (The Awning) was an entry in the 1985 Temporary Living competition, conceived as a mobile home.

Torsten Ottesjö’s Hus-1, a 269 square foot house on the Swedish coast with an almost sculptural beauty.

The Kirchplatz Office and Residence by Oppenheim Architecture + Design and Swiss studio Huesler Architekten have created offices for themselves in an eighteenth century building in northern Switzerland.

Verbandkammer, a modular workspace/storage container by Nilsson Pflugfelder.

Thomas Heatherwick's London 2012 Olympic cauldron is made up from 204 individual copper petals, representing each competing nation.

Have you ever cracked an egg on your household digital scanner? I did - and created an exhibition from it! Featuring artists from 15 countries SCAN.IT considers scanning an alternative to photography.

The Canadian Agency NFOE and Associates Architects has its new offices in the heart of Old Montreal. The agency now occupies the first two floors of New York Life, the oldest skyscraper in the city.

Oscar Niemeyer's celebrated work has been translated into a series of limited edition 3D photographs. Get those red-and-blue glasses ready!

Paleys upon Pilers (palace on pillars) by Studio Weave sits atop the site of London's Aldgate.

Shortlisted for the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture, the Casa Solare or Solar-Powered House at Vens, in Valle d’Aosta, is built of local wood and self-sufficient in energy.

In the city of Luxembourg, the agency Metaform Architecture sign this building of 4 apartments. Dark monolith rising on four levels, it is distinguished from surrounding structures, both in its form and its materials.

Fearon Hay's Island Retreat consists of an arrangement of freestanding structures around a sheltered central courtyard rests in a saddle above Matiatia Bay.

Portuguese architect Gabriela Gomes has designed a cloud-like two-person habitat that is sustainable as well as transportable, and rents out for 100 euros per night, inviting people to sleep in a sculpture in public spaces.

The treehouse-like Shelter of Nostalgia by Worapong Manupipatpong.

The Canadian graphic designer and video artist Suzanne Thoma and French architect Dominique Jobelot have imagined the installation 'The overthrow of the sky' for the 2012 Festival of Lively Architecture in Montpellier.

The Buijtenkitchen from Studio Elmo Vermijs, a mobile kitchen traveling in the outskirts of Rhoon is based on the old bakeryhouses where the wood stove is the base of the kitchen.

Teatum + Teatum's Hidden House is tucked away between existing buildings.

Forget pop-up, this fully outfitted tea shop in São Paulo pops out.

Frank Gehry's R&D firm Gehry Technologies debuts a cloud-based design software called GTeam.

The lovely, recently completed, Carolines-Benimamet Metro Station in Valencia, Spain by Luis Ferrer is made up of a series of colored glass boxes and beautifully designed right down to its platform benches and light fixtures.

The artist Tracy Featherstone imagines portable sculptures made ​​of pieces of wood. Between architecture, furniture and clothing, these structures are strung and worn, the material facing the flesh, following the curves and binding on both.

Denton Corker Marshall's View Hill House looking out over the Yarra Valley of Victoria, Australia.

Mattapan Mobile Farm Stand designed by BR+A+CE.

Coca-Cola Beatbox by Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt, a building that plays sound samples when touched via 200 interlocking ETFE plastic pillows.

Zetastudio's beautiful interiors for the Capri Suite that was once part of the 17th century St. Micheles’ convent on the island of Capri.

AtelierVecteur have designed the Welcome Pavillion for the 2012 Festival of Lively Architecture in Montpellier, France. It aims to inform and educate visitors, and guide them in their journey.

An old German mill converted into a new sleek distillery brings the chic. The facilities of Stählemühle in Eigeltingen, near the shores of Lake Constance by architect Philipp Mainzer.

Studio Marco Piva architects completed a single family house on Como Lake in Italy. Light colors, natural materials and large windows emphasize the harmony with the surrounding green spaces.

The playful OostCampus building in Oostkamp, Belgium by Carlos Arroyo Architects.

Secret Location's new concept store and restaurant in Vancouver has a visually playful design!

Photographer Anthony Dickenson looks inside an Aircraft Carrier factory.

For the 2012 edition of the Festival of Lively Architecture in Montpellier, architects Adam Scales, Berthelimeau Peter, Paul Van Den Berg devised installation 'Reframe'.

A47, a mobile art library by Productora that travels around Mexico City.

The BioMolecular Self-Assembly project is a collaboration between Skylar Tibbits, Arthur Olson and Autodesk Research. 500 custom glass self-assembly kits were distributed at TED Global 2012 in Edinburgh last month.

Erick de Lyon and Rietveld converted bunker 599 from World War II, located near Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Mexican artist Pedro Reyes's series of fun, cocoon-like, interactive structures, 'Capulas'.

Paletz Moi House in Durham, North Carolina by Kenneth E Hobgood Architects.

A sleek contemporary home in an art deco Melbourne residence from Mim Design.

IkHa, a popup restaurant filled with Ikea hacked furniture in Filmhuis Den Haag theatre in The Hague. Designed by Oatmeal Studio.

The new head office of Pride And Glory Interactive in Krakow by Morpho Studio.

Frank Gehry Conjures a Pastel Duplex in New Orleans's 9th Ward.

Cloud House, a weekend home in rural Colorado by Axis Mundi.

Launched in 1991 by Neville Brody and Jon Wozencroft, 'Fuse' is a design and experimental typography publication with some of the greatest contemporary artists of font design.

Hutong Bubble 32 is a metallic bubble built in a small courtyard in Beijing.It provides a toilet and a staircase that extends onto a roof terrace for a newly renovated courtyard house.

Villa P by Architektonicke Studio Atrium in Karlovarská ul., Košice, Slovakia.

Nike’s incessant drive to push creative limits has resulted in their partnership with creatives at Hush and architecture firm Skylab for the creation of 'Camp Victory' at the Olympic Running Trials in Oregon.

Whangapoua Sled House by Crosson
Architects is a beach house on sleds!

Icon Magazine visits LA's Centre for Land Use Interpretation – an organisation that maps America's alternative geography and catalogues the architecture and landscapes not seen by satellites.

Sydney's colorful new Zumbo Patisserie uses factory-like elements in a magical way!

Bromont House near Bromont, Québec by Paul Bernier Architecte.

Using parametric models, Philadelphia-based design firm point b designed a private art gallery connecting to the owner's home. Many details were fabricated by the team themselves.

AA House is a minimalist home located in Barcelona, designed by OAB. Ceramic cladding was used on the rooftop and perimeter walls. The architects wanted as little obstruction between the interior and exterior as possible.

In the XVIIIth district of Paris stand two new housing buildings designed by the architectural agency RMDM.

'Wooden sphere' nature-art made in Germany.

Softroom's pop-up Mexican restaurant in a shipping container outside London's Southbank Centre.

Some archeological sites are shrouded by neglect. But not the Roman ruins of Le Molinete, in Spain, where a polycarbonate roof designed by Amann-Cánovas-Maruri refreshes history.

A rendering of the Z Boat, designed by Zaha Hadid for art dealer Kenny Schachter

The exhibition 'Paper Architecture' will be presented to the 'Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine' in Paris from October 11, 2012.

Designers and architects from the Washington, DC metro area were asked to design and construct a mini golf hole as part of the National Building Museum's summer exhibit. Putt-putt, anyone?

Integrated Field's design for the Ingfah Restaurant in Khao Lak, Thailand.

VIDEOA pop-up shop for Odin New York’s fragrance collection, this temporary retail installation creates an unexpected moment embedded within an East Village storefront.

New York based architecture firm Rogers Marvel Architects latest retail project in the Battery Park neighborhood of New York City was inspired by 'parallel rows and rolling contours of a hilly vineyard.'

Smythson of Bond Street enters an extraordinary underwater world of dreamlike Jellyfish lamps designed by British artist Tristan Cochrane and Paula Benvegnú.

Brazilian architect Alan Chu’s charming design for a secret tea shop in Sao Paulo integrates playfulness with functionality.

Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, embarks on her last memorial project.

The Sancho el Sabio Foundation in Betoño, Spain preserves a beautiful building with a building. By Roberto Ercilla.

Photos of Brooklyn Bridge Park's colorful new Pop-Up Pool and mini beach that was just opened this morning.

Game installation at la Gaîté lyrique, Paris. Five suspended, superthin steel walls dotted with organic patterns act as vertical game boards to create the space of play. From Nakworks with game designer Eric Zimmerman.

Plaza Mirador El Tossal Community Center in Alicante, Spain. By Crystalzoo Architects.

L’École Polyvalente Claude Bernard Primary School shows how color, light, and depths, can help children respond better to their environment.

Convent de Sant Francesc by David Closes. The glass and steel stair updates the old stone building, bringing new life to the convent.

'Houseboat on the Eilbek Canal' by Sprenger von der Lippe in Hamburg, Germany.

VIDEOBerlin based architect & designer Van Bo Le-Mentzel designed the one square meter house.

'Works' is the first book about designer Matali Crasset, tracing the past 20 years, from his collaborations with Philippe Starck up to Domeau & Peres.

The Longest Bench by Studio Weave in Littlehampton consists of an impressively sprawling 2,000-foot-long seaside bench.

Beautiful staircases of the Wakefield Street Townhouses by Piercy & Company.

Capella Garcia Arquitectura's living garden wall debuts in Barcelona, transforming an urban street corner.

The beautiful wooden House of Cedar by Suga Atelier in Osaka.

Check out this 360˚ panorama tour of the Ganter Brewery in Freiburg, Germany. Traditional and modern methods mix to make great beer from the edge of the Black Forest.

JCDecaux and Mathieu Lehanneur's Mairie de Paris winning Escale Numérique, a connected haven of peace. Set up on the Rond Point des Champs-Elysées, revival of the underground fibre optic network.

Artist Zilvinas Kempinas’ latest work shapes space by the most improbable of means: VHS tape.

Fábrica Moritz, a renovated 19th century brewery in Barcelona by Jean Nouvel.

DIY nest building by Belgian office Compagnie O architects.

The winding Havøysund Tourist Route by
Reiulf Ramstad Architects, a meandering beachside route in a Norwegian fishing village.

The design duo at Snarkitecture recreated the 10-foot tall orange letters from the old Miami Orange Bowl and scattered them, some partly submerged, around the Marlins Ballpark exterior: 'A Memorial Bowing'.

Interview with HB Collaborative's Huy Bui and Jon Schamm on their 'Plant-In City', and how they want to expand the project into an actual "green city".

Maribyrnong House by Grant Maggs Architects in Melbourne.

The beautiful House in Rokko by Tato Architects is a barn perched atop glass box on a hillside overlooking Kobe.

From July 13th till August 5th, 2012, Ikéa installs a VIP lounge lounge in the Terminal 3 of the Parisian airport Roissy Charles de Gaulle.

Reiulf Ramstad's new rest stop in Norway has a snake-like architecture which allows for everyone to get from the road, to the ocean - walking or rolling!

Stairway cinema by OH.NO.SUMO | How architecture can engage with the public in unique and exciting ways.

Hotel Moure: 19th century building located in the historical city center of Santiago de Compostela, declared World Heritage site. The project aims at restoring an old guest house into a hotel.

Design and Technology Center at Morristown State College by Perkins Eastman Architects turns an old dairy barn into the Sheila Johnson Design Center.

Millefiori by Fabian Oefner is ferrofluid mixed with water colors. The process to get these patterns is fascinating and the photographs are mesmerizing.

House in Rokko is a minimal home located in Kobe, Japan, designed by Tato Architects. The two-storey steel structure sits atop a flattened slope with a concrete foundation.

Wendy is coming! If you've been waiting to feast your eyes on HWKN's spiky, blue, pollution-busting installation for MoMA PS1's ever-popular Summer Warm-Up series, here are some sneak peek pics.

Fabio Novembre's new exhibition at The Triennale Design Museum is full of color! The artist created a 3D element to graphics in the form of a built space.

Papelote is a stationery shop located in Prague. The space combines a shop and a workshop with paper products manually made ​​from recycled materials.

Shrouded House in Toorak, Melbourne from Inarc Architects.

Brussles-based artistic collective LAb[au] are committed to the evolution of Bauhaus, extracting new meanings from architecture and audience interaction through technology.

"No T-Squares: Robot Arms Are The New Thing In Architecture School" - Fun story at FastCo about the Sci-Arc Robot House!

The main concept in the Poncelet Cheese Gastro-Bar in Madrid, Spain. is based on the care of nature, and the use of materials and products that respect it.

El Mirador del Palmeral designed by Joaquin Alvado Bañon in Spain, serves both as a spiraling walkway/lookout tower and a brace for the palm trees.

UNIRE/UNITE: Urban Movement Design in the MAXXI piazza | The installation by the Italian-American office, winner of YAP MAXXI 2012, transformes the Zaha Hadid’s Museum plaza into a space for summer live events.

Fundacio Enric Miralles | In Barcelona, a space dedicated to the experimentation of contemporary architecture in memory of the Catalan architect opens June 21.

The "Habitable Polyhedron" is a geometric shed tucked away in a garden several yards away from the client's main house that offers a cozy retreat where the family can relax.

The new Salon Urbain lounge and event space in Montreal, designed by Sid Lee Architecture and Ædifica, features a bar in the shape of a soundwave.

Combs Point Residence in Finger Lakes, New York by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.

Frank Gehry designs sets for LA Philharmonic's Don Giovanni.

Black Lodge by Jägnefält Milton on a remote Swedish island.

This pool house is actually part of a new wave of inflatable structures! The frame of the structure has inflatable panels attached - and can last for years.

The interactive Cupnoodles Museum in Yokohama, Japan, covers the history of the instant ramen and offers up a lot of fun.

Incredible how this entire prefab guesthouse is dropped into place by helicopter! on a site overlooking Lake Maggiore in Switzerland. Prefab designed by British architect Richard Horden.

Annakapelle Schladming by Hammerschmid
Pachl Seebacher Architekten, a beautifully refurbished Austrian chapel.

The beautiful studio of Studio of Muñoz Arquitectos in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico.

Frac Bretagne by Odile Decq.

Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld has mastered the marriage of nature and architecture in the Casa Grecia, where an Eco-system of 1,900 square meters of plants exist within the Sao Paulo home.

Gorgeous garage (Garagenatelier) in Herden, Switzerland embedded into the landscape by Peter Kunz Architektur.

Fantastic Trailer is a mobile pavilion constructed out of glowing inflatable 'draft columns'. From Cheryl Baxter.

Sneak peek at 'Wendy', the winning project of this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. The pavilion is currently under construction and scheduled to open July 1.

'Meteors' projects by Frédéric Ruyant for Gardens Garden.

'Daylight' series by Philippe Malouin features slats lined in LED lights giving the illusion of sunlight streaming through shutters.

A real ‘Evergreen‘ never vanishes... The panel is moss-covered and fuses a pleasing natural appearance with functionality.

Glass House in Hiroshima by NAF Architect & Design.

'Villa Ladybird' by Johan Sundberg Arkitektur in Beddingestrand, Sweden.

Yucca Crater, a temporary space in California’s Mojave Desert designed by Ball-Nogues Studio for High Desert Test Sites.

Groupe scolaire Lucie Aubrac by Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes. A public institution with a strong identity.

Beautiful prefab modules from Moodo.

Menno Aden's beautiful room portraits capture spaces from unique perspectives.

PMK+Designers' Lai Residence in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

A fun look around the HomeAway World Headquarters located in downtown Austin, TX.

The Villa K pool in Tagadert, Morocco, designed by Studio KO.

'Onda' outside ceramic furniture by Marc Aurel.

Poltrona Frau, showroom scenography by Noé Duchaufour-Lawranse.

A pro skateboarder revamps a decaying hunting lodge into a domesticate skatepark.

Bow Line, a sculpture created by Jason S. Brown, Christopher King, and Brian R. Jobe, is currently on view this weekend at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2012. Located at Pod 7, the sculpture is a rest stop for festival attenders.

House in Setagaya-ku is a minimal home located in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Kashiwagi Sui Associates. The home sits atop a 116.96 sq m site, and constructed mainly of wood.

'Virtual city' by Sang Un Jeon turns digital internet usage into a physical qwerty keyboard

'Villa Solaire' in Morzine by JKA and FUGA

Stunning views at the Municipal Auditorium of Teluda by Francisco Mangado.

See how contemporary architects are harvesting the world's slums for design inspiration.

Amsterdam's Conservatorium Hotel by Piero Lissoni.

House in Go Vap by MM++ Architects in Ho Chi Minh City.

Press room of the French Ministry for Agriculture by H2O Architects.