New Refuge Gervasutti by LEAPfactory
Climbers in the Alps can now spend their nights sleeping in a tube that cantilevers over the edge of a mountain. More »
Tag: bunkers
Diamond Beach House by
Bourne Blue Architecture
Continuing our series of stories about security-conscious and bunker-like residences, here’s an Australian holiday home that can be secured with huge sliding steel shutters. More »
Dezeen archive: bunkers
Dezeen archive: following the riots in the UK this week and our popular recent story about a steel-plated house (bottom left), which one reader though might come in handy in a zombie apocalypse, we’ve compiled a selection of stories about bunkers and other fortified buildings. See all the stories »
Law Street House by Muir Mendes
A drawbridge-like flap lowers from the steel-plated facade of this Melbourne bunker to reveal a bedroom window. More »
House KW by Käß Hauschildt Architects
Following our story about Shigeru Ban’s apartments secured by rolling metal shutters, here’s a concrete house near Stuttgart that can be sealed with sliding screens. More »
Metal Shutter Houses by Shigeru Ban Architects
and Dean Maltz Architect
After hours, rolling metal shutters fasten across these New York apartments designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. More »
House in Pedrogão by Phyd Arquitectura
This dreamy holiday bunker designed by Portuguese studio Phyd Arquitectura is sunk into the landscape, overlooking the hills near Torres Novas. More »
House in Ropponmatsu by Kazunori Fujimoto
Architect & Associates
Japanese firm Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates have completed a concrete house in Fukuoka that resembles a half-submerged submarine. More »
Safe House by Robert Konieczny
This house outside Warsaw by Polish architect Robert Konieczny transforms from a villa by day to a fortress by night. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
Concrete House II by A-Cero
Concrete wedges project out from the facade of this single-storey residence near Madrid by Spanish architecture studio A-Cero. More »
Northern Europe Migrants Organisation
by Felix de Montesquiou and Hugo Kaici
Architecture students Felix de Montesquiou and Hugo Kaici have designed the headquarters for a conceptual company that would help customers migrate illegally from Europe to the UK. More »
House 77 by dIONISO LAB
Portuguese studio dIONISO LAB have completed a house in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, with a façade comprising aluminium shutters perforated with symbols. More »
Hiedaira House by Thomas Daniell Studio
This concrete house in Hiedaira, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, by Kyoto firm Thomas Daniell Studio, is located next door to the house and studio we published on Dezeen last week (see our earlier story here). More »
The Wyckoff Exchange by Andre Kikoski Architect
Manhattan firm Andre Kikosi Architect installed a folding Corten steel façade to transform this disused New York warehouse into a market and music venue. More »
Vostok Cabin by Atelier Van Lieshout
Dutch studio Atelier Van Lieshout have created a mobile, indestructible dwelling with an armoured shell. More »