Crossboundaries converts houseboat into tiny solar-powered home
Beijing architecture studio Crossboundaries has carried out "a full makeover" of a boat to create a tiny solar-powered house named Fàng Sōng. More
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Best Practice Architecture updates historic Boathouse Bungalow in Seattle
A quaint dwelling that was once a houseboat has been renovated and enlarged by US firm Best Practice Architecture for a couple and their daughter. More
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Tamás Bene creates Hungarian houseboat to be "in harmony with its surroundings"
Hungarian architect Tamás Bene has designed a houseboat, which was informed by local fishing boats, as a holiday home on Lake Tisza for a young couple from Budapest. More
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Baca Architects moors modular floating home on Chichester Canal
Baca Architects – the studio behind the UK's first amphibious house – has completed a boxy floating home on Chichester Canal in southern England. More
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Floating home in Seattle by Vandeventer + Carlander features water-level bedrooms
"Float-level" sleeping quarters in this single-family home moored to the shore of Seattle's Lake Union allow residents to go swimming directly from their bedrooms (+ slideshow). More
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Houseboat by Laust Nørgaard floats in Copenhagen harbour
Danish boatbuilder Laust Nørgaard has completed a floating home for his family in Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow). More
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Baca Architects completes buoyant house on the River Thames
Work has completed on the UK's "first amphibious house" by Baca Architects, which rises in its dock-like foundations to avoid flood water (+ slideshow). More
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Floating home by +31 Architects is moored on an Amsterdam river
Half of this floating house by +31 Architects is submerged below the waterline of Amsterdam's river Amstel, while the other opens out to a buoyant terrace (+ slideshow). More
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Copper-clad ParkArk houseboat by BYTR Architects floats on a Dutch canal
Copper panels and local timber clad the exterior of this houseboat in the Netherlands by BYTR Architects, which is moored beside a wooded parkland (+ slideshow). More
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UK should "learn from the Netherlands" and build floating housing - Alex de Rijke
Dezeen Wire: "we're advocating other UK architects to design on water," architect Alex de Rijke told Dezeen at the Venice Architecture Biennale this week, where his firm dRMM are exhibiting proposals for floating housing at the British Pavilion. More
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Water Villa by Framework and Studio Prototype
Timber batons create geometric patterns across the exterior of this houseboat in Amsterdam by Framework and Studio Prototype. More
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Watervilla de Omval by +31 Architects
Dutch architects +31 Architects have completed this curvy house boat on the river Amstel in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. More
