Architects FAT have teamed up with artist Grayson Perry to design a house inspired by fairytales on the east coast of England. More »
A House for Essex by FAT
and Grayson Perry
Tag: holiday homes
A House for Essex by FAT
Summer House
by Mikael Bergquist
This holiday cabin in Sweden by architect Mikael Bergquist is clad with untreated timber that will fade to grey as time passes (+ slideshow). More »
Wardrobe in the Landscape
by Enrico Scaramellini
Italian architect Enrico Scaramellini squeezed this narrow holiday house into the passageway between two farm buildings in the Alpine countryside of northern Italy. More »
Dutchess House No. 1
by Grzywinski + Pons
Shimmering aluminium panels are ridged like the top surfaces of bricks on the exterior of this country house in upstate New York by architects Grzywinski + Pons (+ slideshow). More »
ISM house by International
Royal Architecture
Tokyo studio International Royal Architecture designed this seaside house with the "form of a pure white arrow". More »
Holzkristal by
Hurst Song Architekten
This holiday home by Swiss architects Hurst Song Architekten is partly embedded in the steep slopes of the Swiss Alps (+ slideshow). More »
House on the Marsh
by A1Architects
A dormer window provides a first-floor observatory at this gabled lodge in the Czech Republic by A1 Architects of Prague. More »
Dezeen archive: holiday homes
Dezeen archive: for those wishing to escape a wet summer, here's a round-up of all the holiday houses featured on Dezeen to help you imagine the perfect retreat. See all the stories »
Hut on Sleds by Crosson Clarke
Carnachan Architects
As the tides erode the northern coast of New Zealand, this house on a sled by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan can be towed off the beach and out of harm's way (+ slideshow). More »
Farmstead Next to the Chapel
by bergmeisterwolf
An enormous frame surrounds a little window in the reconstructed stone wall that flanks this holiday home in northern Italy by architects bergmeisterwolf (+ slideshow). More »
Tutukaka House by Crosson Clarke
Carnachan Architects
Wooden shutters fold, tilt and slide open to let in the sun and keep out the burglars at this weekend cabin in New Zealand by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan (+ slideshow). More »
Seacliff House by
Chris Elliott Architects
The walls of this house in Sydney by Australian studio Chris Elliott Architects feature curved openings that look like gills. More »
Red House at Red Hill
by Inarc
Linear House by Architects EAT
This wood and steel house by Melbourne studio Architects EAT has a huge projecting roof that shelters a first floor barbeque deck. More »
Trunk House by Paul Morgan Architects
Forked tree branches framing this house in southeast Australia were intended by architect Paul Morgan to resemble the sun-bleached kangaroo and sheep bones scattered around the surrounding woodland. More »